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Google Sidewiki: mostly worthless for showing how political sites are lying or misleading - 9/23/2009

Google has launched a new service called "Sidewiki" (link) that's a bit of a universal commenting system. If you have their toolbar installed, you'll see comments that others have left about the current webpage; see screengrabs at the link. And, because the comments are ranked from "best" to "worst", this will simply reinforce the status quo at most sites in...

Matt Richtel /NYT helps Google, Silicon Valley promote H-1B visas - 4/11/2009

Matt Richtel of the New York Times offers "A Google Whiz Searches for His Place on Earth" (link), part of that paper's "Remade in America: A series about the newest immigrants and their impact on American institutions". It's a true multimedia edutainment spectacular including audio, a slideshow, and even interactive features. And, as it happens, our ticky-tack laws an...

Obama "Director of Citizen Participation" is from Google (Katie Jacobs Stanton) - 1/29/2009

Per this, Barack Obama has named former Google product manager Katie Jacobs Stanton to be his "Director of Citizen Participation". Neither I nor that site know exactly what she'll be doing, but note that Obama has previously conducted scams called "The Citizen's Briefing Book" and "Open for Questions". At least the second used a Google tool called Moderator,...

Youtube/Pulitzer makes worthless illegal immigration supporting video finalist - 11/19/2008

For the backstory, see Shock: Youtube/Pulitzer contest has pro-illegal immigration puff piece as finalist. That same worthless, illegal immigration-supporting video (link) is now one of the five finalists in the Pulitzer competition and is #20 on Youtube's Featured list. Either because of that or because of creative counting, its views have jumped from around 700 a couple days ago to over 60,...

Steve Grove/Youtube still promoting 9500 Liberty's pro-illegal immigration propaganda - 4/25/2008

Filmmakers Eric Byler, Annabel Park, and Jeff Man run "9500Liberty", a pro-illegal immigration online documentary project discussing issues in northern Virginia (youtube.com/user/9500Liberty). In the past they've resorted to re-re-re-repurposing supposedly controversial comments from an older white gentleman in an attempt to racially demagogue the issue, but now they're back wi...

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