July 2009

When fact-checking, it helps to use facts

by Karoli on July 31, 2009 · 4 comments

Looks like Fleckman is walking back some of his ownership of the right-wing talking points. Yet, they’re still factually incorrect. When I published my original post calling him out on them, I was accused of attributing modified talking points to him. Let’s get that factual error out of the way first. If you read my [...]

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The Great Twitter Propaganda Machine

by Karoli on July 30, 2009 · 6 comments

Twitter can be a great source of information. Or not, depending. As marketers have discovered, it’s wonderful for getting a message out and spread virally, whether it’s true or not. Political operatives have discovered the same thing. In fact, the Twitter API is so robust and friendly that it can become a 24/7 propaganda machine, [...]

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Once in awhile, you just get lucky

by Karoli on July 23, 2009 · 2 comments

Today was one of those days. DG and I tagged along up to UCSB with BigDog. While he taught, we walked on the beach at low tide, catching waves, dogs, rocks and things with our cameras (I gave her the D70). She pointed out this rock on the beach. It was dry when she showed [...]

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