linkdump for 2007.02.17
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Wikipedia’s Wales: Damn the advertising, full speed ahead!
Jason Calcanis is encouraging Wikipedia to add advertising to meet operational costs.
(del.icio.us tags: Web2.0 advertising wikipedia)AlterNet: Obama’s Identity: Where Do We Start?
Since Obama is not the descendant of slaves, his entry into the presidential race raises questions about what it means to be black.
(del.icio.us tags: immigration politics race)NYTimes: 31 Days in Iraq
I may have to show my students this cool visualization of January’s casualties in Iraq when we discuss information design.
(del.icio.us tags: Iraq war information_design visualization)Overstated: The price of using social media for politics…
Cameron Marlowe takes a screen shot of a Barack Obama promotional page that features an ad with some major cleavage.
(del.icio.us tags: awesome gender advertising politics2.0)One Response to “linkdump for 2007.02.17”
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The visualization is interesting–I suppose the gendering of civilians versus soldiers is to be expected, but I found it a little confusing or distracting at first.