Informed
This should be in the running for “least informative dialog ever”.
(The information in question was that Firefox had been upgraded by the Ubuntu Gutsy Update Manager app, if you’re curious…)
Google News Censors Indymedia
Google News has been forced to remove IndyMedia from Google News’ feed of sources, by an email campaign.
I’m in two minds about this — I can see Google News’ point. If an unmoderated feed allows crap like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to get through, then GN obviously doesn’t want that turning up in their ‘news’ search results. But removing IMC altogether seems suboptimal; I would assume the front page newswire – or at least the features – is a bit more moderated, and therefore trustworthy.
Getting balanced news — and that means lefty IMC along with neocon Fox — is key, and Google News was doing a pretty good job up ’til that point.
Tags: campaign, crap, email, feed, google, imc, indymedia, news, point, protocols
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After a long taint.org hiatus, it’s time to start fwding on more crap… let’s start with the vagaries of Melbourne’s public transport system. Thankfully, the trams are perfectly sane by comparison.
Tags: comparison, crap, hiatus, org, sane, system, taint, thankfully, time, transport
