that the filming was later called off. I guess shining the light of day on such practices can have an effect.
Archives for 2004
Big Brother, the candidate
Lawrence Lessig reports that Illinois Senate candidate Jack Ryan has someone following and videotaping his opponent around the clock. Prof Lessig suggests that Ryan doesn’t understand the digital age; I would suggest that he understands it all too well.
Back, sort of.
I was away visiting family in Connecticut over the long weekend, and lots has happened while I was gone. Being busy at work and unable to update regularly, here are some apropos pointers.
- As of Sunday, we’re in a general election campaign in Canada.
- The CBS News program 60 Minutes continued to press on Iraq, this time with a story on General Anthony Zinni, who says that the current course in Iraq is “headed over Niagara Falls.”
- Michael Moore won the Palme D’Or at Cannes over the weekend.
- Many are reporting that Rumsfeld has banned digital cameras and cam-phones in Iraq following the prison atrocities – or more specifically, the publication of photographic records of said atrocities. Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin, however, has looked into this in more depth, and apparently it’s not so.
Next from Google?
An article by John Markoff in the NY Times suggests that Google is about to introduce a as reported at Shatnerian, it seems that The Boss is thinking about playing a free show in Central Park this summer as a counterpoint to the Republican convention to be held in that city in early September. I wonder if this is true?Counter-programming:
