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H5N1: 'Selling Airtime on News Channels' by K

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why are we all getting worked up on a 'potential' disease threat when millions of people are dying day in and day out from highly avoidable diseases … speaking to the people involved on all sides of the tale, speaking to other journalists who have been covering the issue, I find myself unsure of what the hell is going on. It is a conundrum as people would say. But, I do know this much, H5N1 was a very good way of selling airtime on news channels.
(Link to: PressTalk)

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The Memory of Writing

I cherish the memory of choosing writing over 'vacation.' Wrestling the Angel

These days, I have so little of my own to say. Perhaps it's due to the assignments at school with all their requirements. I don't know, but I'm trying to keep going nonetheless, posting things I have known and felt for so long.

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A Soldier's Thoughts

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Thoughts from Zachary Scott

Zachary is a SGT in the 3rd Infantry Division, an Arabic translator in Iraq. He's due to be home soon but I thought I'd pass this link along from his blog. It begins: Something Interesting I Found in the News. He has said in past posts that he has guidelines in the service, regarding blogging. We can only guess. (Also posted at CivicConnections

Why Do We Write?

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I found an interesting web log today titled, “Wrestling the Angel.” Sometimes it’s difficult to write, specifically because it takes so long and even writers need to eat and heat their homes in the winter. Sometimes I wonder why we even do it (us crazy bloggers). It’s not as though it’s a lucrative field for ninety-nine percent of us. But still we do it. Why? Here’s one take on the subject by Alison Gresik:

“…writers write simply because they must. One blogger (unfortunately I can't remember who) recently asked people if they'd still write even if they never had the chance of publishing….”

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What's Happened to Jill Carroll?

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AMHERST, Mass. – The deadline set by the kidnappers of freelance journalist and UMass Amherst alumna Jill Carroll passed today in Iraq without any new word on whether the group followed through on its threat to kill her.

Carroll, 28, who was on assignment for The Christian Science Monitor, was abducted Jan. 7 in Baghdad and last seen in a videotape aired Feb. 9 by Kuwaiti TV station, Al Rai TV. According to Al Rai, her kidnappers, a group calling itself the Revenge Brigades, threatened to kill the reporter if their demand for the release of all Iraqi female detainees was not met by Feb. 26.

On Sunday, Iraqi security forces reportedly conducted intensive searches for Carroll, but failed to locate her.

Read the rest at UMass Amherst News

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What's a Blogger to Do?

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The government concluded its "Cyber Storm" wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.

Bloggers?

Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose "Web logs" include political rantings and musings about current events.

My first response is: Oh well, see yah guys, it's been fun and all that but I don't want to have to answer for my blogs if the bear is so much bigger than me. On second thought however, I'm like: but wait a minute, I just write my opinion! And on third thought I'm like: yeah but what if they don't like you opinion because the old rules have changed.

According to the government, "“Cyber security is critical to protecting our nation's infrastructure because information systems connect so many aspects of our economy and society."

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