Dissidents’ Library and Conference Center in Dallas

The George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX will host several libraries, including the “Voices of Dissidents” Library. The video below shows former President and First Lady George and Laura Bush talking about this library. Laura Bush also shared with Greta Van Susteren on Friday that a conference featuring Cyber-Dissidents will be hosted at the library in the Spring of 2010. She explained:

There will be specific areas of human freedom. And one thing different about the archives here in the institute is that we’re going to have a freedom repository, and that is a collection of works by dissidents and political prisoners, current ones, or ones like Vaclav Havel, who will be one of our first contributors to the freedom collection, who led the revolution in Czechoslovakia. And he was jailed as a dissident in Czechoslovakia and then finally became president of the Czech Republic after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

So that is going to be very interesting. And our first fellow that we announced that will be part o f the human freedom part and the freedom collection part of the institute is Oscar Morales Guevara from Colombia. He’ll start here in January.

He will produce a conference on cyber dissidents. He’s an engineer in Colombia, but he started a Facebook movement “No Mas FARC” against the FARC in Colombia. So he will be able to bring into the whole idea of dissidents and political prisoners this idea of being able to reach out beyond the boundaries of a tyranny through the Internet.

And so we’ll have a cyber conference here next March or next spring to talk about ways we can increase the voices of people, let people who are shut behind the tyranny be able to reach out to the rest of the world through the Internet.

For updates, and conference details as they become available, regularly check the GeorgeWBushCenter.com Also see EDUCATION, GLOBAL HEALTH, HUMAN FREEDOM, ECONOMIC GROWTH TO BE INITIAL FOCUS OF BUSH INSTITUTE; PROGRAMS TO BEGIN IN 2010 (.pdf)

 

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Government-Run Healthcare at your fingertips? There’s an app for that (how embarrassing!)

The NRCC pokes a little fun at the iPhone and the proponents of the so-called health-care “reform” legislation being proposed in Congress.

 

Hat-Tip Tech Republican, and Jennifer, via the Web 2.0 Reader

 

The Future of Twitter, by Loic Le Meur

If nothing else, you’ll enjoy the way Loic Le Meur pronounces “Twitter.” Here are his predictions for the future of Twitter (h/t Mashable):

 

Think Social Networking is a ‘Trend’?

Ft. Hard Knox WebWarriors know that we usually steer clear of MMO (Making Money Online) posts, here…not because there’s anything wrong with that (we ARE free-market capitalists, after all), but because there are already enough sites on the line covering MMO, whereas our key focus is on helping conservative activists become more effective online.

That being said, however, I heard this young man on Fox and Friends this morning, and thought several of his ideas about the current state and future of the internet, new media, and social networking are also very appropo to what we’re doing here. Gary Vaynerchuk is the owner of Wine Library, a project in which he took his family’s business online and the author of _blank">Crush it! Why NOW is the time to Cash in on Your Passion. The following is a video interview he did for BigThink.com.

Also see: Three New-Media Lessons from Gary Vaynerchuk

 

(Hat-Tip Mike’s Writing Workshop)

 

If you haven’t JUST NOW re-set your Facebook password, don’t open that e-mail!

Mashable is reporting that there is yet another trojan horse making the rounds, appearing to be an e-mail confirmation that your Facebook password has been reset:

…This one – known as Bredolab – masks itself as a ‘Password Reset Confirmation Email,’ appears to come from Facebook, and attaches a file that purports to contain a new password.

That file is actually a trojan horse that will download a host of nasty files from the Web and infect your computer with them…Continue reading Facebook Password Reset Confirmation Email Contains Virus [ALERT] >>

 

How to deal with e-Mail overload…

243 new messages! Hmmm…I wonder what would happen if I just marked them all as ‘Read,’ and started over?!

I Can Has Cheezburger

 

Not News: There’s no such thing as privacy on the web. (Google and Bing are ‘officially’ searching Twitter and Facebook, now.)

Google and Bing have been searching Facebook and Twitter for a long time, in case you hadn’t discovered this by doing routine vanity searches for yourself on Google, Bing, and 123People, etc..

But the search engines this week are announcing new deals and technology that make these searches easier. For more details on that, follow FHK’s Web 2.0 Reader.

Bottom Line

• If you’re using the social networks primarily to keep in touch with friends and family, and want to continue believing that you have some privacy on the web, stay off of Twitter, and use the “just friends” settings on Facebook. According to Facebook, it’s default settings are not supposed to be searchable…yet…I would recommend choosing your own settings.
• However, if you’re using the social networks primarily for online profile management, and WANT your posts, etc., to be viewed in the search engines, you’re in luck. This is happening automatically on Twitter, and on Facebook, you just need to adjust your settings to “everyone” under the privacy features.

 

Newsbusted on the GOP’s New Website

This is may be the only time in history that HuffPo and the Media Research Center agree on something – how the RNC still doesn’t get it. Jodi Miller also comments on Balloon Boy, kids asking Obama why people “hate him so much,” polling, Rush Limbaugh, senior stimulus, Mike Huckabee, etc..

 

BalloonBoyGame.com (How much tax payer $$ can you waste?)

Well, you won’t be wasting any tax payer money – just time with this:

heyzap.com – embed games

 

Can’t Talk ON Facebook? Just Talk ABOUT it.

UPDATE 10/14/09 6PM CENTRAL: Nope…still down:

Account Unavailable

Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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That describes much of my week…more than a week, actually. Since October 3rd, due to a reported apparent database failure, approximately 150K of Facebook’s 300M users have been experiencing serious access issues. “Lucky” me – I was one of the 150K.

Some folks decided to vent on Twitter, and reported not being able to access their accounts at all. I was able to get on sporadically. On some days, I could access my home page, but not my friends’ feeds. On other days I had to try several times to just get on to my own feed – after being told several times that my account was down for site maintenance and to try again in a few hours. For minutes at a time on some days, I was able to access everything. Occassionally my entire friends list (nearly 3,000 people) simply disappeared; other times, it appeared that certain friends had “un-friended” me, but then the problem would clear up in a couple of hours. This has gone on for over 10 days, now.

It’s been quite exasperating. Yes, in the grand scheme of things, Facebook is a tiny blip on the radar, but it has become my primary spot for networking with fellow conservative activists. The most recent reports as of today are that the problem has cleared up, and Facebook is not being specific (probably for security reasons) about exactly what was wrong. Hopefully, after over 10 days, the fix is permanent.

Creative Icons…so Easy, even a Church Mouse Can do it.

Here’s this week’s cartoon from ChurchMice.net, a project of Karl “Pastor Z” Zorowski, a Methodist minister.

 

Wondering what to do with all of those old phone cords?

Wondering what to do with all of those old phones and cords now that the world has gone wireless? Jean Luc Cornec put some to good use…these sheep are on display in the Museum For Communications in Frankfurt Main, Germany. (Hat-tip POPFi). To see more pics, visit CualQuiera.

 

Family + Facebook = Aaawkward!

Yet another of life’s little lessons in “be careful what you put online!”

Graph Jam

 

Google Reader in Plain English

This is a video from LeLeFever on Google Reader in Plain English. Also, be sure to visit the FHK WebWarriors’ Web 2.0 Reader!