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  Alternate Media Making Headway

  http://theanchoressonline.com/2008/05/15/alternate-media-mak...
  1 day ago in The Anchoress · Authority: 660

  Is it just me or does Pajamas Media seem to be firing on all cylinders, lately, and doing a bang-up job of providing excellent coverage on breaking stories like the situations in China and Burma, and the politics of the day? From its very humble launch, which had many people betting it wouldn’t last six months, PJM has become a pretty impressive publication and I like that it links throughout the day to all sorts of blogs, not only those deemed “conservative” or “right-of-center.” I also like that it has brought together people from traditional print media, like the brilliant reporter, Claudia Rosett, and the historian Victor Davis Hanson, and some of the most tireless bloggers on the ‘net; it’s a nice energy over there. The site covers the gamut - you’ve got your economics page, your campaign analysis, book reviews, world politics, advice columns, internet stuff, showbiz/political stuff, film reviews, and even drunkblogging. I missed mentioning earlier the news that Glenn Reynolds has brought his Instapundit site into the PJM home page with a feeder. Comments on that seem to be mixed, but this is what I like about PJM - a few years into the endeavor, they’re still trying new things, and seeing what works and does not; it is a dynamic, not a stagnant site. I check it every day and don’t link to it enough. My own piece for PJM, on Einstein’s about-to-be-auctioned letter, in which he writes about faith and the notion of the Jews as a Chosen People, is featured here. Dead tree newspapers, magazines and tired news programs are being given a run for their money by the internet, and I believe the internet - where people can seek out the information and insights they want from sources of their own choosing - is making a serious dent in traditional media. The danger, of course, is the echo chamber; it is too easy to click only on those sites and writers who reflect one’s own views and then lull oneself into thinking that - because that’s the only point of view one is reading - it is the only POV out there. But then again, I guess you could argue that much of the mainstream press is also an echo chamber, only with less consumer control over what they read or hear. ShareThis
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  Links.

  http://andiskaulinsinchina.blogspot.com/2008/05/links.html
  4 days ago in Andis Kaulins in China · Authority: 1

  Click here to read about the Earthquake and about my wife and son going to Beixing. Visit here and vote in my poll. If you have already voted in the poll, vote again. Stuff the poll with your votes. I don't care. Just vote. Invade Burma? There is a job for the U.N. but it wouldn't happen. America could do it but they wouldn't receive any thanks for it. A Pittsburgh Detroit Stanley Cup Final? The tenth anniversary of the death of Frank Sinatra is approaching. I will have a tribute in my other blog. I ask the students if they have Olympic Fever. Or at least, I asked the students before the events of March 14 in Tiber and at the Torch Relay in Paris. After these thing happened, I wanted to not talk about the Olympics at all. Now, I have had some students tell me that they had been indifferent about the Olympics till those events happened. I dare not ask the students about Myanmar (Burma really). Christopher Hitchens on Israel. I think Israel's fate is the West's fate.
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  A Friend E-Mails From China Today

  http://webutante07.blogspot.com/2008/05/friend-e-mails-from-...
  4 days ago in Webutante · Authority: 31

  Could it be that China's heartless stance toward the Burmese catastrophe is more than ironic now? Hear, hear. ********* As you wake this morning (Monday US time) you will no doubt hear about a major earthquake in north central China. The quake registered 7.8 and was centered in Sichuan Province, killing several children and injuring at least 100 – although it is still early and there will probably be many more in that tragic number. We definitely felt this quake. I was out at a local copy shop a little after 2:30 pm local time when the quake hit. I was just a few feet from an exit door. Everyone in the building ran out into the street. Nona was home in our apartment and was very frightened. We live on the 4th floor of the building and so it took her some time to get out. Even after she was outside, the shaking continued for some time. It is a very odd feeling to have the earth move under your feet. But we know in whose hands our foundation is laid, and that our feet are on solid ground. As far as we know there was no local damage and we are fine except for some frayed nerves. Please lift up China and those who might have been severely affected by this quake. ********************* Indeed, they do need our continuing prayers in China for their trapped, lost and dead. This is looking more and more like a tragedy of mega proportions. The people in Burma need our prayers too.
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  China has Burmese blood on its hands.

  http://www.liberalfamily.com/archives/179
  5 days ago in liberal.family · Authority: 3

  China has Burmese blood on its hands.

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