Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Andie, thanks for the postings. Will get to the links and hopefully reply soon. In the mean time, I posted a letter concerning torture in Zimbabwe "Letter sent to the Chair, Vice-Chair, Members and Secretary of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights", as I received it today and think it is important. All eyes on Iraq, while Zimbabwe burns. .....
Doris Lessing, on war, and the novel. .....
Saturday, January 25, 2003
fishrush in where academics fear to tread? (you'll like this one Martin) .....
RACISM AND HEALTH. In a recent article in the BMJ, Kwame McKenzie says there is a growing literature showing an association between racism, morbidity and mortality. McKenzie argues that racism may be aetiologically important in the development of illness. See this interesting article at: Address: http://bmj.com:80/cgi/content/full/326/7380/65?maxtoshow=?eaf .....
Andie posted this in reply to Martin 1/23/03:
Kind of like the Rand, innit, Martine? .....
Thursday, January 23, 2003
William Gibson, coiner of the term Cyberspace, now has a blog. He says:
"In spite of (or perhaps because of) my reputation as a reclusive quasi-Pynchonian luddite shunning the net (or word-processors, depending on what you Google) I hope to be here on a more or less daily basis. "
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Thanks for that Martin. It occurs to me that blogging is like Reality TV with yourself. Based on your hypotheses Reality TV will probably go the same way - dead, or even bigger, until it is back to watching gladiators in ancient Rome in the comfort of your living room. I digress, today, I am working on a report about policy making for victims of violence in Northern Ireland. Not much of interest to say just yet. .....
This blogging thing is really taking off, isn't it? My two blogging predictions:
1. In five years blogging will be dead (in the sense that the Citizen Band radio is dead).
2. In five years blogging will be a hundred times bigger than now (in the sense that the kinds of collaborative knowledge work that blogs make possible will be pervasive.
That is the word from ye olde wise guru. .....
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
I should have known it was only a matter of time till you started blogging! You can rely on me to contribute some (a)musings (hopefully!) from time to time, and some theory on this eccentric online sport.
The Ancient Art of Haranguing Has Moved to the Internet.
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It was reported today in the Mail and Guardian (South Africa) that the Namibian Herero are to file atrocity claims against Germany. A four-billion dollar claim against Germany and two firms for alleged atrocities committed against Namibia's Herero people in colonial times may go to court within two months, The Namibian daily reported on Wednesday. The German government, Deutsche Bank and shipping company Woermann Line (now known as SAFmarine), stand accused of forming a brutal alliance "to commit atrocities and exterminate more than 65,000 Hereros between 1904 and 1907". For the full article CLICK HERE, or visit http://www.brandonhamber.com/documents/legalaction-herero1.htm
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Tuesday, January 21, 2003
the blogger goes live!Labels: Blogging .....
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