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Brilliant French-language sumo fan site
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Perspectives on Somalia from aid workers attempting to provide humanitarian relief despite absurd conditions. "What has happened over the past two years in Somalia is a textbook example of how not to win the hearts and minds of people in the GWOT !"
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RMack shares some early results of a comprehensive study of censorship by Chinese blogging providers. She and assistants posted 108 potentially controversial posts to 15 providers. One censored over 60 – another blocked only one. There's an amazing range in what will get your content blocked within China, and huge variation from one site to another.
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When groups of Chinese internet users band together to expose – and sometimes punish – individuals, is this crowdsourcing, mob justice or both? And why is this so much more common in the Chinese blogosphere than in the English-language online world?
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Who are the folks who carry out "human intelligence tasks" on Mechanical Turk, and what motivates them? Not a statistical sample, but a nice set of pics.
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Multinational corporations are leasing large areas of African land for agriculture. Possible that this is a good deal for both sides… and possible that it's not,
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