<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - mississa's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/</link><description>Autobots Rollout!</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2012</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 3 Jun 2008 02:22:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:31:21 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Michael Crichton, Vindicated</title>
<description><![CDATA[In 1993, novelist Michael Crichton riled the news business with a Wired magazine essay titled "Mediasaurus," in which he prophesied the death of the mass media—specifically the New York Times and the commercial networks. "Vanished, without a trace," he wrote.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/02/1533349-michael-crichton-vindicated</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/02/1533349-michael-crichton-vindicated</guid><category>mass-media</category><category>michael-crichton</category><pubDate>Tue, 3 Jun 2008 02:22:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Google Wants to Facebook Friend You - TIME</title>
<description><![CDATA[Upping the stakes in its ongoing battle with the popular social network, Google announced today that it was getting into the "social plumbing" business — giving every website a way to add a limitless number of applications and a means for those sites' users to communicate among&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/05/13/1486750-google-wants-to-facebook-friend-you-time</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/05/13/1486750-google-wants-to-facebook-friend-you-time</guid><category>google</category><category>technology</category><category>facebook</category><category>online-community</category><category>openid</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 00:17:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Will Newspapers Be First Against the Wall?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Recent discussions about the impact of technology on politics and the media have raised more questions than they've answered, writes Jason Wilson]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/05/13/1484807-will-newspapers-be-first-against-the-wall</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/05/13/1484807-will-newspapers-be-first-against-the-wall</guid><category>media</category><category>internet</category><category>journalism</category><category>news</category><category>big-media</category><category>public-sphere</category><category>communicaitons</category><category>meaa</category><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 06:19:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>google-blurs-the-boundaries-for-privacy</title>
<description><![CDATA[Google has rolled out a new technology which automatically blurs any human face appearing in street-level photographs taken for use in its mapping services by its fleet of camera-mounted vehicles.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/05/13/1484775-google-blurs-the-boundaries-for-privacy</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/05/13/1484775-google-blurs-the-boundaries-for-privacy</guid><category>google</category><category>technology</category><category>privacy</category><category>maps</category><category>google-maps</category><category>google-earth</category><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 05:45:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Media Democracy on the March</title>
<description><![CDATA[In his 1983 treatise, The Media Monopoly, Ben Bagdikian warned that 50 multinationals, "all interlocked in common financial interest with other massive industries and with a few dominant international banks," controlled the majority of the leading outlets.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/05/11/1482225-media-democracy-on-the-march</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/05/11/1482225-media-democracy-on-the-march</guid><category>viacom</category><category>election</category><category>politics</category><category>time-warner</category><category>walt-disney</category><category>clear-channel-communications</category><category>news-corporation</category><category>big-media</category><category>media-monopoly</category><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 02:32:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Don't Be Evil or don't lose value?</title>
<description><![CDATA[As Google comes under ever increasing scrutiny for the power it has over our lives, the web giant is tiptoeing back from its long-held corporate motto, Don't Be Evil.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/15/1433290-dont-be-evil-or-dont-lose-value</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/15/1433290-dont-be-evil-or-dont-lose-value</guid><category>google</category><category>technology</category><category>search</category><category>internet</category><category>marissa-mayer</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:36:42 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Fairfax unveils youth news website</title>
<description><![CDATA[Generation Y is the focus of an Australian news website launched today.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/07/1417022-fairfax-unveils-youth-news-website</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/07/1417022-fairfax-unveils-youth-news-website</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>youth</category><category>news</category><category>fairfax</category><pubDate>Tue, 8 Apr 2008 02:01:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Push US to sign Kyoto: Opposition</title>
<description><![CDATA[But this morning Opposition climate change spokesman Greg Hunt said Mr Rudd should also urge the US to follow Australia's lead and sign Kyoto.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/27/1394866-push-us-to-sign-kyoto-opposition</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/27/1394866-push-us-to-sign-kyoto-opposition</guid><category>bush</category><category>australia</category><category>politics</category><category>environment</category><category>climate-change</category><category>rudd</category><category>kyoto</category><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:06:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Aussies still hooked on plastic bags: report</title>
<description><![CDATA[A leaked report prepared for the Federal Government has revealed that the use of plastic shopping bags in Australia increased by almost 1 billion last year.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/19/1377868-aussies-still-hooked-on-plastic-bags-report</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/19/1377868-aussies-still-hooked-on-plastic-bags-report</guid><category>australia</category><category>environment</category><category>conservation</category><category>sustainability</category><category>plastic-bags</category><category>federal-environment-minister-peter-garrett</category><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:36:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Candidates@Google: Barack Obama</title>
<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama talking to Google staff at the Googleplex. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/18/1373593-candidatesgoogle-barack-obama</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/18/1373593-candidatesgoogle-barack-obama</guid><category>google</category><category>politics</category><category>barack-obama</category><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:18:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Portrait of John Howard as an Arab entered into Archibald</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Syrian-born artist who says he loves John Howard has entered a portrait of the former prime minister dressed as an Arab into the Archibald prize.

]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/09/1354681-portrait-of-john-howard-as-an-arab-entered-into-archibald</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/09/1354681-portrait-of-john-howard-as-an-arab-entered-into-archibald</guid><category>politics</category><category>john-howard</category><category>archibald</category><pubDate>Sun, 9 Mar 2008 21:12:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Businesswomen question 2020 panel mix</title>
<description><![CDATA[Actress Cate Blanchett is the only woman named as part of the Government-appointed 10-member panel that will choose people to attend the summit in April.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/26/1325480-businesswomen-question-2020-panel-mix</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/26/1325480-businesswomen-question-2020-panel-mix</guid><category>australia</category><category>politics</category><category>federal-governement-2020-summit</category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:14:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Costello blew it</title>
<description><![CDATA[Article about the ABC TV's Four Corners episode tonight, in which former key players shed light on the death throes of the Howard government.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/17/1307932-costello-blew-it</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/17/1307932-costello-blew-it</guid><category>hockey</category><category>australia</category><category>politics</category><category>costello</category><category>howard</category><category>downer</category><category>mclachlan</category><category>minchin</category><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:20:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>ACCC gets tough on enviro-friendly labels</title>
<description><![CDATA[COMPANIES that make misleading green and environmentally friendly claims for their products could face fines of up to $1.1 million, the Government's consumer watchdog has warned.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/17/1307898-accc-gets-tough-on-enviro-friendly-labels</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/17/1307898-accc-gets-tough-on-enviro-friendly-labels</guid><category>green</category><category>environment</category><category>saab</category><category>accc</category><category>holden</category><category>pine-o-clean</category><category>wondersoft</category><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:42:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Bits: Google Tests Video Ads on Search Results Pages</title>
<description><![CDATA[Until now, advertisers could only buy short blocks of text on Google's search results page. On Thursday, the site started testing ads that also include video clips. It is looking at graphic ads and those with interactive maps as well.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/15/1302758-bits-google-tests-video-ads-on-search-results-pages</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/15/1302758-bits-google-tests-video-ads-on-search-results-pages</guid><category>google</category><category>search</category><category>advertising</category><category>nytimes</category><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:05:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Ancient tensions fail to mar apology</title>
<description><![CDATA[Dr Nelson spent the first half of his speech apologising for the removal of Aboriginal children, and the second half implicitly suggesting that there should be more of it today.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/12/1297091-ancient-tensions-fail-to-mar-apology</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/12/1297091-ancient-tensions-fail-to-mar-apology</guid><category>labor</category><category>nelson</category><category>australia</category><category>politics</category><category>liberal</category><category>apology</category><category>rudd</category><category>sorry</category><category>aborigine</category><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:42:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Nelson comments draw ire</title>
<description><![CDATA[THE long-awaited apology was finally delivered but comments made by Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson raised the ire of some of the crowd.

Inside Parliament House, members of the stolen generation wept as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered the Sorry motion.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/12/1297068-nelson-comments-draw-ire</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/12/1297068-nelson-comments-draw-ire</guid><category>labor</category><category>nelson</category><category>australia</category><category>politics</category><category>liberal</category><category>apology</category><category>rudd</category><category>reconciliation</category><category>sorry</category><category>aborigines</category><category>stolen-generations</category><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:20:40 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>White bread for young minds, says university professor</title>
<description><![CDATA[Google is "white bread for the mind", and the internet is producing a generation of students who survive on a diet of unreliable information, a professor of media studies will claim this week.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/15/1230178-white-bread-for-young-minds-says-university-professor</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/15/1230178-white-bread-for-young-minds-says-university-professor</guid><category>google</category><category>search</category><category>education</category><category>university</category><category>tara-brabazon</category><category>university-of-brighton</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:20:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Tiinker is Like a Personal Digg for Feeds</title>
<description><![CDATA[News feed aggregator tiinker aims to help those feeling overwhelmed by their news portals and their own feed readers chop down their lists.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/15/1229974-tiinker-is-like-a-personal-digg-for-feeds</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/15/1229974-tiinker-is-like-a-personal-digg-for-feeds</guid><category>news</category><category>digg</category><category>news-agregator</category><category>tiinker</category><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:33:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Market life returns to Iraqi city after US, insurgent battles</title>
<description><![CDATA[RAMADI, Iraq (AFP) - Stallholders and shoppers in Ramadi's Ma'Laab market all agree that business is getting better. What they can't agree on is whether the US troops who walk past them should stay or go.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/15/1229964-market-life-returns-to-iraqi-city-after-us-insurgent-battles</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/15/1229964-market-life-returns-to-iraqi-city-after-us-insurgent-battles</guid><category>bush</category><category>iraq</category><category>troops</category><category>world-news</category><category>baghdad</category><category>ramadi</category><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:27:58 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Playgrounds for Data: Inspiration from NYTimes.com Interactives</title>
<description><![CDATA[Jared M.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/09/1215697-playgrounds-for-data-inspiration-from-nytimescom-interactives</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/09/1215697-playgrounds-for-data-inspiration-from-nytimescom-interactives</guid><category>technology</category><category>newspapers</category><category>usability</category><category>nytimes</category><category>experience</category><category>interactive-media</category><category>jared-spool</category><category>interactives</category><pubDate>Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:40:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason - TIME</title>
<description><![CDATA[It is too easy—and too partisan—to simply place the blame on the policies of President George W. Bush. We are all responsible for the decisions our country makes. We have a Congress. We have an independent judiciary. We have checks and balances. We are a nation of laws.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/06/1207057-book-excerpt-the-assault-on-reason-time</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/06/1207057-book-excerpt-the-assault-on-reason-time</guid><category>usa</category><category>politics</category><category>democracy</category><category>al-gore</category><category>the-assault-on-reason</category><pubDate>Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:32:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>A World Consumed by Guilt</title>
<description><![CDATA[After factoring in the fabrics used in clothes and how they were produced, the real benefits of soy versus organic cotton versus recycled polyester may be slight, or confusing, or quite possibly misleading.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/13/1162618-a-world-consumed-by-guilt</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/13/1162618-a-world-consumed-by-guilt</guid><category>fashion</category><category>environment</category><category>nytimes</category><category>apparel</category><category>jeans-apparel</category><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:57:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Upside Down Under</title>
<description><![CDATA[Wow! Tough read as an Australian to hear this perspective penned.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/04/1141814-the-upside-down-under</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/04/1141814-the-upside-down-under</guid><category>australia</category><category>politics</category><category>culture</category><pubDate>Tue, 4 Dec 2007 23:31:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Rudd victory speech</title>
<description><![CDATA[Rudd declared victory, wished the out going team well, glowed quite a bit, outlined his key promises and said he would roll up his sleeves and get right to work....]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mississa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mississa]]></source><link>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/29/1129220-rudd-victory-speech</link><guid>http://mississa.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/29/1129220-rudd-victory-speech</guid><category>australia</category><category>politics</category><category>speech</category><category>rudd</category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:26:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>
