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1 Dec, 2007 7:46 am
... here 12/01/2007 How can you tell if Rep. Jerry Keen (Email), R-St. Simons Island, is grandstanding? His lips are moving. Remember ... long
as it's not in Georgia." Sex offenders unable to comply with the tough standards, Keen said, "will, in many cases, have to move to another
state." On Nov. 21, the Georgia ... unconstitutional law that created chaos and wasted limited law enforcement resources, Keen's reaction has
been to accuse the Supreme Court of 'superceding... the will of the people,' " Totonchi ...
31 May, 2007 1:33 am
... is not a criticism of the Internet. Like the article in Nature comparing Wikipedia and Britannica, the real argument of Keen's book is that
traditional media and publishing is just as bad as the worst of the Internet. Here's a book - Keen's ... he teaches is one we should all learn
- to read and think critically, whether reading the product of the "monkeys" (as Keen likens contributors to the Internet to be) or books
published by presses such as Doubleday. I've outlined some of these errors in the ...
30 May, 2007 5:33 pm
... is not a criticism of the Internet. Like the article in Nature comparing Wikipedia and Britannica, the real argument of Keen's book is that
traditional media and publishing is just as bad as the worst of the Internet. Here's a book -- Keen ... he teaches is one we should all learn
-- to read and think critically, whether reading the product of the "monkeys" (as Keen likens contributors to the Internet to be) or books
published by presses such as Doubleday. I've outlined some of these errors in the ...
17 Jul, 2007 1:08 pm
... me by a few people in the past couple of weeks that my promised post on the Andrew Keen book - 'The Cult of the Amateur' as well as
associated give away of said book has ... buying that after reading most of what is in his book. " Digital technology is a miraculous thing" Keen tells us, but only if it is used to "protect the legacy of our mainstream ... same thing, but the expert reviewer in expert magazine says it's good,
Keen will take the experts view. I could go on - believe me, I could go on - but ...
26 Nov, 2007 10:27 am
... established within 1,000 feet of his home, he found himself in violation of the law. Keen said the 1,000-foot residency requirement
predates the 2006 sex offender law. ... . Alabama has a residency requirement. Where do you think those people are going to go to?" Keen said
he's looking at a new law that would re-establish the residency requirement ... - if for no other reason than getting it to the U.S. Supreme Court," keen said. Meanwhile, he said he is working with Rep. David Ralston, chairman of the ...
31 May, 2007 5:21 am
... Lawrence Lessig's strict scrutiny over here. Lessig concludes that the errors and assumptions in Keen's book are in fact self-parody (I
haven't read the book yet, so I'm reserving comment for now!), and then sets out (in a detailed post, copied to a - yes - wiki entitled The Keen Reader) some particular examples. A fun one is Keen ... it's just like shooting fish in a barrel. I've been
looking forward to reading Keen's book, and now that there is a good old-fashioned factcheck and spat breaking ...
10 Dec, 2007 9:45 am
... Court threw out the residency restriction for sex offenders, state House leaders are ready with a fix. House Majority Leader Jerry Keen and
Judiciary (non-civil) Chairman David Ralston announced at a news conference Monday they are pre-filing a bill ... when they established residency at a particular location, even though
subsequent developments may have put them in violation. Keen said the net effect of the court's ruling was "opening our borders up to
registered sex offenders who currently have ...
22 Jan 8:36 pm
... here for archive purposes. 12/10/2007 Change in Residency Restrictions to Comply with Supreme Court ATLANTA - Majority Leader Jerry Keen
(Email) (R-St. Simons) and Chairman of the Judiciary Non-Civil Committee David Ralston (Email) (R-Blue ... was at one time! "It is incumbent upon us as legislators to reinstate
residency restrictions as quickly as possible," said Keen. - Why? So your reputation is upheld? The Judiciary Non-Civil Committee will begin
discussion on this legislation on December 18, ...
29 Jun, 2007 2:16 pm
... reviewer, Michiko Kakutani, has given a generous review to Andrew Keen's Cult of the Amateur. As she relates, Keen's thesis is that Web 2.0, by undermining mainstream media and ... ignorance meets egoism meets bad taste meets mob rule." Kakutani appreciates
Keen's "shrewdly argued jeremiad against the digerati effort to dethrone cultural and political ... right connections, etc. Before people like
them can take screeds like Keen's seriously, he'd better explain exactly how the "crumbling media elite" ...
24 Jul, 2007 1:28 am
Full Text: Keen vs. Weinberger - debate between authors Andrew Keen and David Weinberger on Web 2.0
in the Wall Street Journal. Introduction by Keen: So what, exactly, is Web 2.0? It is the radical democratization of media which is enabling
anyone to publish anything on the Internet. Mainstream media's traditional audience has become Web 2.0's empowered author. Web 2.0 transforms all of us -- from 90-year-old grandmothers
to eight-year-old third graders -- into digital writers, music artists, ...
27 Nov, 2007 4:11 pm
See other articles related to Mr. Keen here He has clearly lost touch with reality, IMO! Click his picture to email him, if you'd like. "We
don't want these types of people staying in our state" - What type of people Jerry? Not all people are pedophiles or child molesters like you seem to think. I know, you are just trying
to look good to the sheeple of Georgia. "We knew there were going to be some people affected by this law, that it was going to create some inconvenience" - And? "This is a one ...
22 Dec, 2008 1:44 pm
"Hicks keen to clear name and be a boring person": The Sydney Morning Herald today contains an article that begins, "A free man seven years
after his arrest in Afghanistan, David Hicks has signalled his wish to clear his name and remove his terrorism conviction from his record. Almost seven years to the day after he went
into custody and one month before a new US president takes office and closes Guantanamo Bay, Mr Hicks regained his freedom yesterday with the expiry of the control order ...
5 Jan 3:57 am
Why is Labour so keen to imprison us? A quite extraordinary statistic has been dug out of the deepest quarries of Whitehall by a diligent
government official following an inquiry about the number of laws introduced by Labour since taking office in 1997. We know there has been a tidal wave of legislation, but it is
mind-boggling to discover the size of the tsunami. It is estimated that more than 3,600 new offences have been created. But even more astonishing, as Baroness Stern, a crossbench peer,
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29 Oct 7:42 pm
BATS DO IT, CATS DO IT, EVEN PEOPLE WITH TACKY TATS DO IT: Fellatio keeps male fruit bats keen. Okay, the cats, not so much. But I needed a
rhyme. (Via Hot Air.)
17 Nov 4:33 am
We have a lot of questions from public authorities and suppliers about the scope of the 'commercial interests' exemption under the Freedom of Information Act, particularly in relation
to tenders. A recent Information Tribunal judgment (Fred Keene v Central Office of Information) throws a little more light on things. Fred's business had been one of the
unsuccessful bidders when the COI had invited tenders from reprographics businesses several years ago. In January 2007 Fred made a request for ...
22 Mar, 2007 12:35 pm
Michael Keen (International Monetary Fund) presents The Flat Tax(es): Principles and Evidence (with Yitae Kim Ricardo Varsano) at UCLA today as
part of its Tax Policy and Public Finance Workshop Series, moderated by Kirk Stark Eric Zolt. Here is the...
27 Apr, 2007 10:00 am
Michael Keen (International Monetary Fund, Fiscal Affairs Department) Ben Lockwood (University of Warwick, Department of Economics) have
published Is the VAT a Money Machine?, 59 Nat'l Tax J. 905 (2006). Here is the abstract: This paper considers what it might...
3 May, 2007 11:00 am
Michael Keen (International Monetary Fund, Fiscal Affairs Department) Stephen Smith (University College-London, Department of Economics) have
published VAT Fraud and Evasion: What Do We Know and What Can Be Done?, 59 Nat'l Tax J. 861 (2006). Here is the abstract:...
29 Nov, 2007 7:21 pm
From my interview today with the president of the American Conservative Union, David Keene: HH: [D]o you think Mike Huckabee's a conservative? DK: No, he's a populist. HH: Right.
And so. DK: He governed as a...
14 Dec, 2007 5:01 am
We've never met you, Jane Genova, but you have a keen eye for talent.
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