links for 2006-10-17

• YouTube – Colbert, Steinem and Fonda
  Colbert invokes and embraces the Divine Feminine.
  (tags: food funny people politics video feminism colbert gloriasteinem janefonda)
• apophenia: this video is important
  “No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted” – danah flags the Dove ad, correctly I think as an important cultural moment.
  (tags: advertising beauty image photoshop youtube video women)
• OurMedia Sydney
  “These conferences have consisted of scholarly and academic presentations, media activism initiatives, policy workshops, community cultural development roundtable debates, new media labs, research-led forums and engagements by local media producers.”
  (tags: community media research social)
• Wallflower at the Web Party – New York Times
  “The counter to that is, ‘Tell me why you aren’t going to be the next Friendster,’ ” Mr. Sze said. “It’s become the iconic case of failure.”
  (tags: business entrepreneurship history interesting internet socialnetwork socialsoftware startup web Friendster)

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