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What is a Chinese Poster Wall?
The Democracy Wall Movement - 20 years ago in China. (Update here.)
big-character posters (dazibao)
Posters, limited-circulation newspapers, excerpted press articles, pamphlets, and blackboard news using large-sized ideographs and mounted on walls as a popular form of communication. Used in China since imperial times but more commonly since literacy increased after the 1911 revolution. Used more frequently after 1949 to publicize party programs and as a means of protest. Became ubiquitous during the Cultural Revolution (q.v.); guaranteed as one of the "four big rights" in the 1975 state constitution.
Revolutionary Rudeness:
The Language of Red Guards and
Rebel Workers in China's Cultural Revolution
" ... a striking characteristic of Red Guard language--at least to the native Chinese ear--was its vulgarity. The use of curses and other crude expressions was a conscious effort on the part of rebellious young students to adopt what they took to be the revolutionary language of the masses."
Onward, MetaFilter! Hip-hopping and rapping into a resilient, networked, webcast future!
By the People, For the People - Posters from the WPA
Chinese Pop Posters
Sunday, May 5, 2002 01:37 p.m.
report on the Uberman Sleep Schedule - Everything2 - Copyright, editing, and Group Blogging
Just checked out someone's log of their experience with the Uberman Sleep Schedule, and they made a very sensible, but unexpected point:
How do you arrange your life so you don't do anything for more than four hours straight? What do you to to ensure that at the end of four hours, you'll be someplace where you can nap for the required 20 minutes?
This was my first time "following Alice's rabbit down the hole" into Everything2, a netherland of links and nodes especially designed for insomniacs. No surprise to discover some great insight there into why it's so much easier to get things done after 2AM.
One disgruntled ex-user of everything2 on MetaFilter brings something up that I hadn't considered: When you participate in a group blog or website, are you prepared for the fact that your moniker, your IP address, or your actual name may wind up attached to content which has been edited into something you find most unflattering?"
Sunday, May 5, 2002 01:30 p.m.
Blogs, Blogging and Bloggers
Weblogs: a History and Perspective - by rebeccablood
Blogicon - a lexicon of blogging terms
Web Services and Blogs - blog by interbiznet
Blog indexes, tools, and directories, articles about blogs and blogging. From the "Honolulu Weekly."
One of the more encouraging things about blogs:
People actually link to opposing viewpoints!
- (via, of all places, US News and World Report - A blog's bark has bite)
Eric Olsen on blogs
CNN's Blogs 101 - there goes the neighborhood
"Just when you might have thought you were all alone with your extreme views, the Internet puts you together with a community of people from around the world who hate all the things and people you do. And you can scrap the BBC and just get your news from those Web sites that reinforce your own stereotypes." - Tom Friedman
If the media giants have their way, Net content will be rigidly controlled and innovation stifled - Lawrence Lessig
"The rush we're feeling over being able to speak in public about matters we formerly kept private is temporary. It will become the new normal soon. At that point it will be integrated enough into our understanding of ourselves that we'll carry it over into the real world. And although we will lose the rush of novelty, we will gain the steadier warmth of wider and deeper friendships." - David Weinberger
BlogCon 2002 Las Vegas
Blogdexers who link to BlogCon 2002
Researchers Study Communities on the Web
Sunday, May 5, 2002 01:28 p.m.
How to work a room - The Crusader - War Profiteering
Quick, useful tips for professional networking, business, or conferences! What to wear, bring, say, who to approach when. Illustrations for body language and stage blocking.
- (via Martin Roell's E-business Weblog)
Another way to work a room,
if you are a " ... former CIA spook turned Reagan defense secretary"
and "chairman for the Carlyle Group, the nation's 11th largest military contractor"
who is "championing the the production of 482 Crusader armored vehicles"
The Crusader also figures in this article on War Profiteering.
- (via Strike-the-Root)
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." - Thoreau
Crusader humor - Rumsfeld vs. White
Rumsfeld on decision to cancel Crusader
Sunday, May 5, 2002 01:25 p.m.
May Day 1951 - Howard Fast
"During the late 19th century, while corporate power was growing at an unprecedented rate, American workers faced a political and legal system that failed to recognize even the most basic rights of workplace safety, community sanitation, and child protection, let alone the right to organize and strike. On May 1st, 1886, the American Federation of Labor declared a national strike to demand an eight-hour work day and 350,000 workers across the country responded."
- (via Liberal Arts Mafia)
Mayday on the Web
Sunday, May 5, 2002 01:22 p.m.
A Vegan Radical Cookbook - Send your recipes!
Vegan and genetic-engineering-free food.
A work in progress-- contribute your favorite recipes!
"Chapter 10 - Direct Action and Nightime Gardening [excerpt]
These GE plants are held captive as biotech slaves. By harvesting them early, we free them from the bonds of corporate servitude. Remember this while gardening because sometimes it feels strange to garden in this manner. Life is sacred, which is why we garden at night in the first place. May nighttime gardening flourish here as it has in Europe and other lands around the globe."
- (via abuddhas memes)
What the hell does a vegan eat anyway? - A vegan posts his daily menus to a blog.
A vegan perspective on anarchism
Sunday, May 5, 2002 01:17 p.m.
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