Wirearchy

Noticed first on Dave Winer’s Scripting.com
From the most recent Wired, a piece as to how the ongoing wiring of communications in government departments is being - increasingly - supported by RSS.
One thing that many people agree on is that government bureaucracies are usually very slow to adopt new innovations.
So when the little-known National Agricultural Statistics [...]

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From some comments on the Atrios blog, regarding the decision not to show the recent video tape of an American soldier killing a wounded Iraqi person at point-blank range.
Do you see how it works?
We show charred corpses of dead contractors hanging from a bridge for 72 hours straight on cable
We don’t show our boys capping [...]

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