Zenpundit.com
Mark was kind enough to include me at the pre-release e-mail e-party. Unfortunately, I dropped the ball in reciprocating.
Anyway, the new Zenpundit site looks great. Nice to see top bloggers stepping up to take on the lame “head” of the blogging long tail.
Narrowcasting Terror
WPN –
One of the most alarming trends we found on the Internet recently is what we call ‘narrowcasting’,” said Gabriel Weimann, professor of communications at the University of Haifa in Israel which monitors 5,800 militant Web sites.
Weimann said terrorist’s goal is not to reach the largest Internet audience but to slice the audience into segments and target each with specific tactics. “Terrorists are using the Internet to focus on children, very young children, to attract young people to the ideology and later to the way of terrorism.”
“When they target children, they do everything any commercial advertiser would do. They use comic books, storytelling, graphics, movies, competitions, prize-winning and so on,” Weimann added.
Almost $4 Billion To Counter Nigerian Oil-Terror
AllAfrica –
Just about $3.75 billion –
President Umaru Yar’ Adua’s plan to spend N446 billion in 2008 on purchase of arms and ammunition for the military to allegedly carry on with the Federal Government’s fight against the people of the Niger-Delta
Robb in Esquire Via Barnett
Heh, imagine my surprise when I discovered that this sketch of John’s ugly mug graces page 193 of the December 2007 issue of Esquire above a Barnett piece on Brave New War.
Snazzy.