Category Archives: The Web at War

Usage of the World Wide Web in situations of War, conflict, propaganda etc.

Twitter Iran RT chaos

From Twitter in the last few minutes, a chaos of echo’d posts about army moves. Just a few excerpts here by copy/paste, mostly without the all-important timestamps. Without tools to trace reports to their source, to claims about their source from credible intermediaries, or evidence, this isn’t directly useful. Even grassroots journalists needs evidence. I [...]

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Problem statement

A Pew Research Center survey released a few days ago found that only half of Americans correctly know that Mr. Obama is a Christian. Meanwhile, 13 percent of registered voters say that he is a Muslim, compared with 12 percent in June and 10 percent in March.
More ominously, a rising share — now 16 percent [...]

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WHY MIGHT CONNECTING WITH ZANDER JULES BE A GOOD IDEA?

Or: towards evidence-based ‘add a contact’ filtering…
This just in from LinkedIn:
Have a question? Zander Jules’s network will probably have an answer
You can use LinkedIn Answers to distribute your professional questions to Zander Jules and your extended network. You can get high-quality answers from experienced professionals.
Zander Jules requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
Dan,
Dear
My [...]

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“totally obliterate them”

What obliterate means…

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from the SEO Rapper

Social Media Addiction Rap

“I surf the web, I used to watch TV
now I’m logged into Joost, it’s commercial free”[...]

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Bottles and teargas in Piazza Navona

I’ve just posted 100 or so photos from the anti-Bush protest in Rome last night. Zac and I were on the way to a restaurant when we stumbled into the protest in Piazza Navona, just by the Senate where Bush apparently was in meetings. We wandered around the square taking photos of the protesters, then [...]

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War in Iran!

The Flickr Snow War I
Originally uploaded by Hamed Saber.
Unique flickr’d glimpse into “axis of evil” snowball training camp…

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Democracy Now! debate on “The New Pearl Harbor”

Democracy Now! | The New Pearl Harbor: A Debate On A New Book That Alleges The Bush Administration Was Behind The 9/11 Attacks

AMY GOODMAN: You saying that the way you did your research was to do a Google search and you couldn’t find his name?

DAVID RAY GRIFFIN: No, no, no.

Worth a read, for those walking [...]

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“Do you know what these pages are?”

Anyways, so I went to the internet café and did my regular tour: raed in the middle, riverbend, etc etc..and then I was bored again. I left the internet café heading towards the financial department again. [...]
“come with us, we have some questions please” they said, and I went with them, searching for answers [...]

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