we have been muttering "the medium is the message" over and over as if it was a mantra when all of a sudden out of the blue pops out this glorious phenomenum. while disaster has struck the world ever since the tsunami hit, we have seen a huge change in the way that news is collected, and broadcast. with new media technologies on the rise, blogging, email, cell phone cameras, digi cams, and digital video lead to a horrifying realistic coverage that is impossible to ignore. a perfect example of this is udara's blog.

There has been plenty of news coverage of this blogging / new media paradigm shift.

here are some other linkz to tsunami blogs:

• tsunamihelp.blogspot.com
• sumankumar.com
• worldchanging.com
• petalingstreet.org
• lilianchan.blogspot.com
• lonestar9.blogspot.com
• petertan.com
• jogalong.blogspot.com
• alwayswow.blogspot.com
• 2bangkok.com
• thiswayplease.com
• blog.ceneus.com
• livejournal.com/users/ernestswhirrled
• hitme.at/muringwien
• rezwanul.blogspot.com
• bobjots.org
• applechicken.blogspot.com
• livejournal.com/users/prema
• unforseeable.blogspot.com

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Okay, so google gives us free ads... that is nice of them to support us. And Hewlett-Packard donates us hardware... and Microsoft gives us shiney new opperating systems. As it seems like TIGs servers are slowly crashing, it is ironic that I am fully coming into a true hatred of everything corporate in the world of ICTs. Maybe it's because they're trying to privitize wireless network technology by marketing hotspots? Maybe it's because I've known all this stuff for a long time and tried to keep in denial. I bought a Mac because it was more P.C., let alone a better opperating system. But now after signing up for Gmail, and learning that my emails are scanning into a computer data base in order to obtain marketing information I am thoroughly pissed off!!!!

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I did a google search on "google" + "evil" and I found some pretty interesting stuff. I sugest that you try it. One of the best ways to see how much google is censored is by looking up the Iraqi torturing pictures. I have tried this many times because I never got to see them in the newspaper. I had heard that they were on the internet, but I couldn't find them for the life of me. That's because I was only using google. Tonight I looked them up on Yahoo and I was sickened..... not just by the American soldiers, but by the fact that google would actually deliberately moniter what users get to see. I can find barely legal porn on google, but not pictures of Americans torturing abroad.

Here's all you need to know:

Google Watch

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so everything is out of sorts for me lately... but i guess things are always a bit out of sorts. what does sorts mean anyways?

been thinking a lot about language, communications, and cooperation. how do things work in the world? how do we get things done... what needs to be sacrificed to keep the machine moving. so i've lost my wallet, i can never get ahold of anyone on the phone, wireless networks are cutting out, urls are failing, and i can never find the place i want to go to......



the other night i walked back and forth along queen street west, looking for gallery 1313. when i finally found it it was closed and i had no idea where zeesy's show was suposed to be. someone should open a gallery at 1337 queen street. i would totally go every day and try to pull digipranks on them and fail.



i want to be a hacker because normal doesn't work for me. these systems and hegemonies are failing us. i read this article today about how the internet and open softwear movements are intrinsically anti-hierchy and i thought that was beautiful.

it gave me hope against the googles, yahoos, and microsofts that are polluting peoples desktops. while we still can't find our printer drivers, atleast we're becoming one step closer to independence. even with their corporate softwear we've found ways to share and pirate through p2p's, bitorrents, and other forms of open free cooperation.

this global movement is surging through me like a wave, and i don't even fully understand it yet. how can you understand what you are? how can you get outside of your body/community to get a full look at yourself. it's like a flee climbing to the top of a strand of hair to try and glimps at what it's feeding on.