Archive for January 29th, 2007
Death of a Poet
Yesterday was the funeral of one of Burma’s most famous poets, U Tin Moe. Yet the Burmese government refused to allow the media in the country to report on his death. And though he was living in Los Angeles, the U.S. mainstream media did not cover the event because the poet was virtually unknown here.
U [...]
Say What?
Here at PopandPolitics.com, we really dig tag clouds - the feature we have off to the right of our posts under “Heat”. With tagclouds, more frequently used tags are displayed in a larger font, whereas less popular words/subjects appear smaller in the tag cloud. Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead [...]
how ya feelin’?
To understand both pop + politics in the Web 2.0 world, one must be in touch with the specific feelings across online content-generating demographics at a particular point in time and place.
Enter WeFeelFine.org, the excellent real-time visualization of the above, created by Internet artist Jonathan Harris and Google personalization tech Sep Kamvar.
Basically, WeFeelFine aggregates and [...]
smokin
Smokin’ Aces is a most rare thing: a good movie released in January. Crazy! A Universal Pictures-Working Title Films product written and directed by Joe Carnahan, who brought audiences Narc (2002), this movie kills, it’s a “gotta see, no doubt” with enough action, suspense and violence to satisfy the entertainment masochist in all of us.
The [...]
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