“Could it be that changes in the Web over the past six years–especially the rise of social networking, blogging, and video and photo sharing–represent the flowering of the Internet’s democratizing potential? This thesis seems to explain the dynamics of current Internet censorship: sites that feature user-generated content–Facebook, YouTube, Blogger–are especially unpopular with authoritarian regimes.”
Tag: 04.09
Silencing A Music Critic
“Plain Dealer music writer Donald Rosenberg covered the Cleveland Orchestra for 28 years. That is, until his critiques of Franz Welser-Möst apparently unseated him from the prestigious role. What happened along the way gives a rare look at two powerful institutions and raises the question of what it means to be a critic.”
Can A Human Being Have Perfect Memory?
“Ordinary human memory is a mess. Most of us can recall the major events in our lives, but the memory of Homo sapiens pales when compared with your average laptop. … Worse, our memories are vulnerable to contamination and distortion. Lawyers can readily fool us with suggestive questions; false memories can easily be implanted.” So a California woman said to have a perfect memory is an evolutionary aberration — or is she something else?
Albee To Teach At Princeton
Edward Albee will teach at Princeton University and write a new play for a local theater as the first person named to a new playwriting fellowship.