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"I update therefore I am."
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Hola como estas ?
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Te mando este archivo para que me des tu punto
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de vista Nos vemos pronto, gracias.
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Manuel Ramirez Escobedo
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Hi! How are you?
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I send you this file in order to have your advice
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See you later. Thanks
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[Unknown]
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Dear Ezine Editor
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The reason that I am contacting you
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is to see if your Ezine readership
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would be interested in reading a free
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article entitled:
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How to make the cash in your bank
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account work...
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[-marconote: only as information I'm afraid]
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Hi!!!
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& Welcome to ATI, activist tazers invented.
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/-|| || || 283 - 0107261726
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- NUMBERS -
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/07/25/insurance.htm
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http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=55467
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http://free.freespeech.org/xaa/xaa0001.txt
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http://reel.chettz.net/farklinks/god.htm
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http://g8solidarity.protest.net
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http://www.thesmokinggun.com
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http://www.yankthechain.com
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http://www.robotfrank.com
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http://platdragon.cjb.net
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http://www.softskull.com
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http://www.netslaves.com
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http://www.rushkoff.com
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http://www.flakmag.com
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http://www.cownow.com
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http://xxx.lanl.gov
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http://www.cpj.org
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Hi, I'm Prime Anarchist.
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Your e&p of ati zine
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I'm away on vacation and I don't feel
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like writing very much, so you'll have
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to wait til I get back before you get
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too much from me so I'll pretty much
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let the submissions drive this thing
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the next couple weeks.
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s/
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marco
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ps: sh0utz and gr33tz to aries and travis for
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editing help!!!
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___________
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`b`b`b`b`b`b`b`b_______________
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GATT # ???
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(I've lost track. I'll figure
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it out by next month, promise)
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marc,
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thanks for your patience and persisitence.
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by the way,the chords to Overthrow Bush
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are simple G D C D for both the
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chorus and verses; they just keep repeating.
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peace, michael b.
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George "W" Bush, quite frankly, SUCKS!
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Revolution now
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If Washington won't do it
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The people will show them how
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_____________
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d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^____________
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"accidentally left asspants in nyc"
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Who Stole The Webby News Award And Why
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by _John Johnson's Son_
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[some names have been changed to protect the anarchist]
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"The Webby Awards are a celebration of corporate domination over
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the internet. The whole purpose is to take a popularly created
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participatory and democratic medium and laude the work of people
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who are squeeze profit out of it. Sure there are some categories
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such as activism, the arts, and weird, but the focus, in their
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rhetoric and during the ceremonies, are the profit hungry dot
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com's."
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I know the person who stole the webby award in the news category
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to protest the corporate domination over the news media both in
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the traditional and online mediums. I'm paraphrasing words he's
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posted around the net a bit and I've added some of my own
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observations.
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Why? Because I don't want him to get in trouble, but I also
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don't want to not tell this story because if it doesn't get
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told we're all sure to suffer.
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You ready?
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When he got up to the stage he placed a copy of Noam Chomsky's
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"Manufacturing Consent on the podium, grabbed the news award,
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and yelled "Fuck the corporate media!" into the microphone.
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Unfortunately they had already turned off the podium microphone
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speakers and only the online audience heard his message. Award in
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hand he ran back down the stage and tried to leave the opera house.
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One of the webby security guards grabbed the award out of his hands
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as he pushed through the doors. He said something like "oh no you
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don't" and he didn't feel like fighting over, and breaking, the
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spring so he gave it back to him. He ran it back down the hall giving
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it to winning news people.
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"Let me say that it wasn't an official 'stunt' and the webby people
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really didn't like my action," he wrote somewhere on the net. "They
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apparently do like my website, [ ] as it's been nominated for a
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webby award both times [they've had a certain] category."
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Some other higher up in the webby hierarchy came over to chew him out
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for "messing up their well planned event" and that they'd had to get the
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inside.com guy to fly out at the last minute from New York. After hanging
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out in the back of the theater for a while, not thinking it wise to walk
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back up to his third row seat, the security guards found him and tried to
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kick him out. They said "that was not cool, not cool." He told them he was
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a nominee and they let him stay. They said something about how if he was
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ANYTHING other than a nominee they'd kick him out. It's pretty doubtful
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that if he were a corporate sponsor they'd even threaten to kick him,
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but that's what they said.
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"I ran in to one of the judges in the hall," he says, "who I'd been
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talking to before. He again went off about how hard they worked to pull
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off this highly scripted event and I was messing it up for everybody.
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When I quipped that Webbies even have a tradition of disruption and I
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hadn't even thrown the webby at the audience like ___.org had, he said
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that it was a long time ago, implying that things had changed, now at
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the webbies."
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______.org had called them "greedy corporate bastards" back in 1999,
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and they still are greedy corporate bastards. Only now they're whining
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about the dot bomb deflating their portfolios.
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The webby awards have celebrated sites that pioneer the breaking down the
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wall between advertisers and news content such as amazon, inside.com, cnn,
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beliefnet, babycenter and many others. This is the wrong direction to take
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our collective technological development. We have a choice, either we can
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use this amazing new medium to become a truly popular mass medium where
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everybody has a voice or we can use it to drive hyper consumerism and
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friction free capitalism. For example, the technical achievement award
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went to Microsoft Windows Update and not projects that have been both
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major technical achievements and fulfill the internet's potential as a
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libratory medium.
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"I see such projects as FreeNet, Ogg Vorbis, Gnutella, Apache, *BSD,
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and Linux itself as all being much more important technical achievements.
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MWU is a clever way for Microsoft to send you bug fixes! Bugs they created
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and bugs that are a result of their top heavy corporate development model."
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When television, radio, and cable were introduced there was a struggle
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between people who wanted to use the medium for the common good and people
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who wanted to use the medium for profit and to reproduce the conditions of
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inequality and domination. The question was, do we use this new technology
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to reduce social, economic, and information inequality, or do we use it to
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create a new class of wealthy. This struggle has played out across the
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world. In the US we have the most corporate and profit driven society and
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our media systems have been shaped to reflect and reproduce those values.
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Quickly we saw the rhetoric of the 'information superhighway' be replaced
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with the ecommerce gold rush. The internet is a creation our society, like
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all communications mediums it is communal property. We must not let the
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internet go the way of the newspaper, radio, television, and cable. The
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communications commons must not be partitioned and sold for private
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profit.
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Perhaps this collapse of the hyper inflated internet stocks will help
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us take the internet back from the VC's, dot commers, marketing spin
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meisters, and ecommerce biz dev stiff's. This is a medium that can allow
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us to radically change the balance of information power. Foucault said
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"Power is not possessed, rather is exercised." We must exercise our power
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as creators of technology, consumers of news and culture, people who are
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willing to think critically about the world to fight for the liberation
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of our internet.
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DotCom's Burn:
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The Internet Lives Free!
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And the final digs to a five syllable
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acceptance speech?
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"Bankruptcy never felt so good."
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got feedback?
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