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The Editors (BBC)- The People's Politician November 25, 2009 Tom Giles (BBC News)
- International front page changes November 24, 2009 Steve Herrmann (BBC News)
- Changing headlines November 19, 2009 Steve Herrmann (BBC News)
- Social media focus November 16, 2009 Sam Taylor (BBC News)
- A balanced approach to climate change November 12, 2009 Alistair Burnett (BBC News)
- Website problems November 5, 2009 Steve Herrmann (BBC News)
- Democracy Live November 2, 2009 Mark Coyle (BBC News)
- Reporting in Kabul October 28, 2009 Jon Williams (BBC News)
- Nick Griffin on Question Time October 23, 2009 Gavin Allen (BBC News)
- Closing the News Multiscreen October 20, 2009 Pete Clifton (BBC News)
- Injunctions and super-injunctions October 15, 2009 Steve Herrmann (BBC News)
- Updated editorial guidelines October 9, 2009 Steve Herrmann (BBC News)
- An important story October 1, 2009 Alistair Burnett (BBC News)
- Newsbeat and the BNP October 1, 2009 Rod McKenzie (BBC News)
- A tribute to Brian Barron by his daughter September 24, 2009 Jon Williams (BBC News)
- OhmyNews International
- OhmyNews Citizen Reporter Awards for April May 4, 2009Second prize was won by OhmyNews newcomer J.N. Paquet, for his piece on "Britain's Got Talent" contestant Susan Boyle, who took the world by storm on the Internet with her amazing voice...Todd Thacker
- OhmyNews Citizen Reporter Awards for March April 2, 2009We're happy to announce that the winners are from a predictably diverse group of citizen reporters, in keeping with the demographics of our 6,000 reporters worldwide. In first place is an OMNI featured writer...Todd Thacker
- OhmyNews Citizen Reporter Awards for February March 2, 2009Our third citizen reporter winner is a middle school student in Korea. Park Jeong-eun attended our January OhmyNews English News Camp. Her assignment to write about a hot issue in Korea regarding the relocation of...Todd Thacker
- OhmyNews Gave Me a Platform February 16, 2009There are seven billion people in the world, and each and every one of them has some special ability. Everybody has to find out his or her inner calling. That is the crucial thing....Hartmut Kaiser
- [Interview] OMNI Featured Writer Ronda Hauben December 7, 2008Some of the journalists ask at press conferences about the situation and what UN officials or Security Council members are doing to solve this problem. It gets frustrating to keep asking, as it seems that there is no...Jay Hauben
- OhmyNews UN Correspondent Receives Silver Medal December 5, 2008Hauben has reported from the UN for OhmyNews International since October 2006. In 2007 she was told she had been on the short list for an award. She won the award this year for articles she wrote between Sept. 1, 2007...OhmyNews
- Young Citizen Journalists Warming Up September 2, 2008For students, it was not only a good chance to improve their English skills and to be introduced to journalistic writing but also a great opportunity to meet friends from different ages and schools. Although the camp was...Lee Ga-yon
- OhmySchool's 'Together We Go' Commencement Project July 7, 2008The full aim of this campaign is to introduce the stories of over 100 'lonely new students' entering grade one without a single fellow classmate. OhmyNews will share stories about rural communities and their schools in...OhmyNews
- Invitation to the 4th OhmyNews Forum June 18, 2008Many questions stem from whether this shift in the media landscape is temporary or whether it is here to stay, heralding a fundamental change in media leadership. As more and more citizens participate in the shaping...Oh Yeon-ho
- OhmyNews International Citizen Reporters' Forum 2008 June 18, 2008This year's forum will focus on "Candlelight 2008" and its effects on media leadership. Korean media outlets that engaged with the "Candlelight 2008" both directly and indirectly, will actively debate related issues in...OhmyNews
- OhmyNews Citizen Reporter Awards for April May 4, 2009
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- Manufacturing conensus: why Climategate hurts the warming faith November 25, 2009Ilya Somin, associate professor at George Mason University School of Law, explains why the Climategate emails
- The TV interview which made Andrews serious November 25, 2009Mark Davis’s assessment in The Age is the standard one of the Canberra media: Yet today’s Liberal party-room vote has exposed the fact 40…
- One year to spend. How many to repay? November 25, 2009I really don’t think breaking this kind of record will win you a nice prize:
- Workers converted November 25, 2009Photographic proof of precisely how PETA’s naked protests work, and on whom. This time…
- Climate unmoved, but carpetbaggers happy November 25, 2009Kevin Rudd’s huge new tax on your gases at least makes The New Lawyer happy: CPRS already a…
- Tips for Thursday, November 26 November 25, 2009Post your tips, suggestions and corrections here. As explained yesterday, a boom of comments over the past month have left me unable to…
- Column - The warming conspiracy’s most damning emails November 25, 2009THREE weeks ago Prime Minister Kevin Rudd named me as part of an international conspiracy to spread lies about global warming. How I…
- Warming to the notion of a con November 25, 2009The most interesting thing about tonight’s A Current Affair item isn’t what the interviewees say - with all due…
- Three dead in the rush for Rudd’s batts November 25, 2009Kevin Rudd promises he’ll actually train people to put in those billions of dollars of “free” pink batts: We’ve got about a $4 billion…
- All should march, orders Rann November 25, 2009Soft facism in South Australia, as a government department suggests employees join its neo-religious cause: Walk Against Warming 2009 …
- Manufacturing conensus: why Climategate hurts the warming faith November 25, 2009
- WSJ Opinion Journal
- The Uncertainty Economy November 25, 2009Tim Geithner is not the Democrats' biggest problem.
- Jenkins: The Ugly AIG Post-Mortem November 25, 2009The TARP Inspector General's report has a lot more to say about the rating agencies than it does about Goldman Sachs.
- Mortimer Zuckerman: Finding the Right Fix for 'Too Big to Fail' November 25, 2009Despite its fumbles, the Federal Reserve is crucial to a better regulatory regime.
- The Desolate Wilderness November 25, 2009A chronicle of the Pilgrims' arrival at Plymouth, as recorded by Nathaniel Morton.
- And the Fair Land November 24, 2009'For all our social discord we yet remain the longest enduring society of free men governing themselves without benefit of kings or dictators.'
- Happy Franksgiving November 24, 2009How FDR tried, and failed, to change a national holiday.
- Race to the Top in Education November 25, 2009We can get real reform if the president resists pressure to dilute standards.
- Notable & Quotable November 25, 2009Arianna Huffington on President Obama's economic team and the unemployment disaster.
- Onstage, Terrified November 25, 2009In "Confessions of a Public Speaker," Scott Berkun offers advice to anyone who must give a presentation at work and feelings nothing but anxiety about it.
- Bailout Nation November 24, 2009By Joseph R. Mason Sen. Christopher Dodd's bill on financial regulation crystallizes the government's ability to lend to private enterprises using central bank resources.
- The Uncertainty Economy November 25, 2009
- Terry Flew
- The Cultural Economy Moment now in Cultural Science November 19, 2009My paper "The Cultural Economy Moment?", first presented as a keynote at Murdoch University in Perth, is now accessible from the online journal Cultural Science. Thanks to John Hartley, Eli Koger and anonymous referees for feedback on this.The full paper can be accessed here. The abstract is below:This paper explores the rise of cultural economy as […]
- Creative Suburban Geographies November 17, 2009The Creative Suburban Geographies event was hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation last Thursday (12 November, 2009), and I am pleased to say that the Powerpoint presentations from Alan Davies, Christy Collis and Emma Felton, and Simon Freebody are now available on Slideshare. We will have podcasts available shortly. Th […]
- HASS on the Hill 2009 - Day 2 October 29, 2009Day 2 of HASS on the Hill, being written a day after due to late flights and lots of October 30 deadlines around the place.Going to New Parliament House (using that term because we had dinner the previous night in the Old Parliament House) is a lot of fun. This is the political class in its natural habitat, and the designers of the building created a caverno […]
- HASS on the Hill 2009 - Day 1 October 27, 2009Being late October, it is time for HASS on the Hill, which I am attending as ANZCA President.My trip to Canberra turned out to be more eventful than expected for three reasons. First, I discovered the night before that in the course of changing the timing of my return flight to allow for my meeting with Senator Mitch Fifield at 4pm on Wednesday, someone (eth […]
- Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics - Chapter Twelve October 23, 2009• ‘Homo economicus strips the sovereign of power inasmuch as he reveals an essential, fundamental and major incapacity of the sovereign, that is to say, an inability to master the totality of the economic field. The sovereign cannot fail to be blind vis-à-vis the economic domain or field as a whole. The whole set of economic processes cannot fail to elude a […]
- Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics - Chapter Eleven October 22, 2009• The problem of homo economicus and its applicability to domains that are not immediately and directly economic (crime, marriage, child rearing etc.) is interesting as it posits a notion of the “rational subject” that bears no relationship to the work done in the social sciences on how individuals respond to behavioural stimuli, but it also presents homo ec […]
- Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics - Chapter Ten October 22, 2009• Paradoxes of German neoliberalism (Ordoliberalism):o How to maintain “light” regulation that dies not act directly upon the market but only in favour of promoting the economic process?o How to address the tension inherent in generalizing the enterprise form to balance the promotion of “warm” moral and cultural values with the “cold” mechanisms of competiti […]
- What is Content Co-creation? October 13, 2009Fascinating paper by Michel Bauwens from the Foundation fro Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and Institute for Distributed Creativity, published in the Fibreculture journal, on the layers of content co-creation:Albert Boswijk, of the Amsterdam-based Center for the Experience Economy, asked me a set of interesting questions: What is the reality behind so called best […]
- Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics - Chapter Nine October 7, 2009• American neo-liberalism had become a hot topic in France by the late 1970s. Foucault sees key contextual differences between The United States and Germany (and France) as being:1. It emerges as a reaction to the Keynesian policies of Roosevelt and the New Deal, from about 1934;2. The policies of economic and social intervention are motivated in the U.S., a […]
- Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics - Chapter Eight October 7, 2009• Why this topic? The methodological reason is to give ‘concrete content to relations of power’ by understanding how the ‘grid of governmentality’ operates at the level of economic policy or social management. He also wants to get beyond the moralizing of critiques of the state because:1. It defines the state as the opposite of civil society;2. It wrongly co […]
- The Cultural Economy Moment now in Cultural Science November 19, 2009
- Larvatus Prodeo
- In other news November 25, 2009The “income management” system for welfare recipients inflicted upon Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory as part of the intervention no longer needs an exemption under the Racial Discrimination Act, because the government now plans to inflict it upon the entire Northern Territory welfare recipient population, as part of an eventual nation […]Robert Merkel
- Kevin Andrews to challenge Malcolm Turnbull November 25, 2009At 1pm AEDT today, the Liberal Party will meet for a leadership vote, with the only declared challenger to Malcolm Turnbull being Kevin Andrews. I stand by the analysis I offered last night – Turnbull has the numbers, and if he has the will, he can re-establish his leadership on the basis of these events. The [...]Mark
- The Copenhagen Diagnosis: new climate science report November 24, 2009This morning there were segments on Breakfast and on AM on a new report The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science. In the report 26 scientists have updated the science since IPCC AR4. It’s not a UN publication, but many of the authors were involved with the IPCC report. They were talking [...]Brian
- Ethics in NSW schools November 24, 2009Andrew Clennell in today’s Sydney Morning Herald points us to an interesting trial mooted by NSW Premier, Nathan Rees. Ethics classes will be introduced in NSW schools, offering an alternative to religious studies for the first time in 100 years, the Premier, Nathan Rees, will announce today. Beginning next year, and with the assistance of the the [... […]Phil
- Crash through or crash? What Turnbull should do now… November 24, 2009In the wake of today’s extraordinary events in the Coalition party room, Malcolm Turnbull could put to good use the very qualities he’s usually been panned by his right wing colleagues and the commentariat for having – displaying some courage by making an impetuous gamble from a risky position. The fact that neither Wilson Tuckey [...]Mark
- In other news November 25, 2009
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- The People's Politician November 25, 2009Over on the Editors blog to introduce The People's Politician Tom Giles, executive producer, BBC Current Affairs, has written: Today, the BBC is helping to launch an new experiment to try and re-invigorate the link between MPs and their constituents - using what's known as "direct democracy" to test how far politicians are willing to do w […]Paul Murphy
- ArcHak Archive Development Hack Day November 25, 2009 Ant Miller
- International front page changes November 24, 2009Users of the international edition of the BBC News website will notice some changes to the front page today. We have increased the number of headlines under each of the section headings in the bottom half of the page, made the popular Business and Technology sections more prominent by adding pictures, and we have increased the number of featured items in the […]Steve Herrmann
- Round up: Monday 23 November 2009 November 23, 2009There's lots been said about the iPlayer and the arrival of its upgrade on the Nintendo Wii both on the blog and out in the wild. You can even watch a Wii set up demo with the iPlayer's Anthony Rose on YouTube. Most recently on the blog Gideon Summerfield from the iPlayer team explained some of the technical background, CNET put the Wii iPlayer up […]Paul Murphy
- Changing headlines November 20, 2009From today users of the BBC News website will start to see a slight change in some of our headlines on stories (Editor's note - this blog post was originally published yesterday). In some cases these will be longer than they are now, to allow us to spell out in more detail what and who the story is about. This is so that people using search engines to l […]Steve Herrmann
- BBC iPlayer on the Wii: technical details November 20, 2009We have been bowled over by the positive response to the launch of the new BBC iPlayer for the Wii. Twitter has been abuzz with comments, such as "a revolution in TV watching" and "feels like how TV should be and just might be in the future." Many people are also interested in the technical details of what we've done and how the BBC […]Gideon Summerfield
- New BBC Blogs on the Block: Web Developer and Research & Development November 19, 2009There are two new BBC blogs to tell you about that look like they're going to be well worth following. The Web Developer blog rather self-effacingly and modestly describes itself as "A blog about the web and the BBC, from the people who build the BBC website." From its first half dozen or so posts you can see that this is a blog that isn' […]Paul Murphy
- The future of audio: The UK Radioplayer November 19, 2009Editor's note (PM): There's a very interesting demo that I'm sure will set off much debate on the About the BBC blog where Tim Davie, Director, BBC Audio & Music has written about the UK Radioplayer. Tim Davie writes: Today I have been at the Media Festival in Manchester talking about 'The Future of Audio'. My speech followed the […]Paul Murphy
- Pic of the day: iPlayer on the Wii November 18, 2009David Artiss, writing on his blog Artiss.co.uk: Last night, or rather at midnight, the BBC iPlayer channel was released for the Nintendo Wii. The iPlayer has been usable in the past using the Opera-powered browser channel, but has been of limited quality and, well, not very easy to use. Now we have a very specific channel just for iPlayer. And it's been […]Paul Murphy
- BBC HD on Freeview: rollout dates November 16, 2009There's a press release that's appeared today on the BBC press office website that outlines the planned roll out of Freeview HD. I've pulled out a couple of interesting paragraphs but it's worth looking at the full release as it has the dates for different bits of the country: Today the BBC has confirmed the timetable that will make HD se […]Paul Murphy
- The People's Politician November 25, 2009
- Nick Bryant (The Reporters)
- Rudd upbeat on Copenhagen November 23, 2009 Nick Bryant (The Reporters)
- Thirsting for gold November 20, 2009If you were to compile an Australian power list - we must do that sometime - I wonder where you would insert John Coates, the pit-bull of a man who runs the Australian Olympic Committee? Like Australia at the Olympics, I reckon he might just get in the top six. But, like Australia at the Olympics, he might struggle to maintain his lofty perch over the coming […]Nick Bryant (The Reporters)
- An apology, an architect and an 'audience with Parky' November 19, 2009Foreign correspondents often like to boast that they watch the world unfold from a front row seat on history, but at the national apology in Canberra on Monday it was standing room only. It was a rare privilege to be in the Great Hall of Parliament House, as Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull sought to right some appalling wrongs. It was an extraordinarily rich […]Nick Bryant (The Reporters)
- Shamed into an apology November 16, 2009The scandal of the child migrants sent to Britain's distant dominions was uncovered over two decades ago by a British social worker, Margaret Humphreys. But no British prime minister has ever delivered an official apology, despite repeated demands from victims' group. Gordon Brown now plans to do so sometime in the new year. Following a report from […]Nick Bryant (The Reporters)
- Tiger down under November 11, 2009With news choppers circling overhead, a scrum of reporters waiting down below and a barrage of puns waiting to be unleashed, Tiger Woods flew into Melbourne on Monday, where he will take part in the Australian Masters golf tournament, attend a gala dinner, play in a charity event for victims of the bushfires, promote Victoria as a golfing destination and poc […]Nick Bryant (The Reporters)
- Howard's Way November 9, 2009Last week, I ran into John Howard for the first time since election night in 2007, when, outside a ballroom scattered with discarded, half-drunk flutes of champagne, I confronted him with a conversational opening gambit that to this day makes me wince. My mother-in-law is an enthusiastic fan of the former prime minister, and was a near neighbour in north Syd […]Nick Bryant (The Reporters)
- The Republican Referendum: Ten Years On November 5, 2009Ten years after the republican referendum, it is Australia's constitutional monarchists who have the most cause for celebration. And celebrating they are, with lunches in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth to mark what they call "Affirmation Day". Republicans, meanwhile, are gathering on the forecourt of Parliament House in Canberra, to remind their […]Nick Bryant (The Reporters)
- A nation of punters October 30, 2009So a galloper called Alcopop stands a good chance of running away with the Melbourne Cup. Talk about a journalistic gift-horse: the love of gambling and the love of booze all in one, and the opportunity, on this highest of high holy days, for a blog that sums up the nation. Alas, with Australia slipping down the global drink league table, the boozy stereotyp […]Nick Bryant (The Reporters)
- Asylum, Afghanistan and rugby: blog updates October 27, 2009I thought at the end of this month, I should do a series of blog shorts - updates on subjects raised by this month's blogs; additional information that I should have included first time round; stories or pieces which have caught my eye but didn't really lend themselves to the blogosphere. So here goes: ASYLUM SEEKERS: So first to the running story […]Nick Bryant (The Reporters)
- Big Australia October 23, 2009Driving across the Nullabor Plain this week, I was struck, as ever on journeys through the outback, of the vast Australian emptiness - a sparseness of human life which is explained, of course, by a statistical gap. This is the world's sixth largest country in terms of acreage, but only the 52nd in terms of population - 22,026,000 according to the Austra […]Nick Bryant (The Reporters)
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- Afghanistan: time to go November 25, 2009 Caroline Lucas
- A victory for bank customers too November 25, 2009 Patrick Collinson
- Alan Johnson's dilemma is unbalanced November 25, 2009 Henry Porter
- Was Google right not to remove racist Michelle Obama image? November 25, 2009 Array
- Filesharers are parasitic freeloaders November 25, 2009 Anne Wollenberg
- Torture fails us all November 25, 2009 Mary Fitzgerald
- Islam's arrested development November 25, 2009 Pervez Hoodbhoy
- We want Blair's head. But Chilcot won't give it to us November 24, 2009 Simon Jenkins
- Thanksgiving's making me feel queasy November 25, 2009 Hadley Freeman
- A climate deal is like trying to halt the rains in Cumbria November 24, 2009 Paul Kingsnorth
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- Two New Book Chapters on Produtzung November 23, 2009I haven't yet had a chance to note my latest two book chapters on produsage here - both in German, and following on from conferences in Germany which I spoke at in 2008 and 2009: The reader Prosumer Revisited, from the Prosumer Revisited conference which I attended earlier this year, contains my chapter "Vom Prosumenten zum Produtzer", which a […]Snurb
- Remembering the Fall of the Wall November 10, 2009Twenty years ago to the hour I sat in an army bus of the (West) German Bundeswehr in the town of Dannenberg, stuck in a traffic jam caused by (East) German Trabis exploring their new-found freedom to travel. My unit was posted right on the border to the East, charged with listening in to radio communications of the East German and (more importantly) Soviet f […]Snurb
- New Reviews of the Produsage Book November 3, 2009(Crossposted from Produsage.org.) I'm delighted to note that three new reviews of my book Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage - by Verena Laschinger, Alan Razee, and Erin Stark - have been published over at the Resource Centre for Cybercultural Studies. RCCS editor David Silver kindly also asked me to provide a respon […]Snurb
- Blog Mapping and Beyond... October 27, 2009It's been a good week already - on Monday I've received notice that we've been successful with a major research grant application in this year's ARC Discovery round. The three-year project for which we're receiving $400,000 from the ARC, with my esteemed colleague Jean Burgess as the postdoc researcher, will extend the existing work […]Snurb
- The Impact of Design Features on the Social Network Formations on Twitter and Plurk October 10, 2009Milwaukee. The final speaker of this final session at AoIR 2009 is Raquel Recuero, who shifts our focus to Brazil and its adoption of Twitter and Plurk (another micromessaging tool, but one which has a horizontal rather than vertical logic and enables replies within the message - Google Wave-style, it seems). How is the appropriation of these different socia […]Snurb
- Fighting Gender Stereotypes in the Polish Blogosphere October 10, 2009Milwaukee. The next speaker at AoIR 2009 is Katarzyna Chmielewska, whose focus is on Polish-language blogs, especially by Polish women. In 2006, an advertising agency created a controversial public service advertisement in Poland that was featuring a hospital delivery room with a birthing scene during which a vacuum cleaner is born, to suggest that too often […]Snurb
- Gender and Race Differences in Email Use for Family Purposes? October 10, 2009Milwaukee. The next speaker at AoIR 2009 is Briana Fox, whose interest is in how gender and race shape family email networks. Are there perceivable differences in how families email amongst themselves that can be explained through such factors, and in the perception of such networks by families from different backgrounds? There is a perception that email in […]Snurb
- Twitter as a Technology of Immediacy October 10, 2009Milwaukee. The first speaker in this final session at AoIR 2009 is Taina Bucher. She argues for an understanding of Twitter as a technology of immediacy - in this case, of immediacy in time, enabling users to cease the time and take action. Our being in time is characterised by the scarcity of time in the 24h society; Twitter reacts to that by encouraging sh […]Snurb
- Political Discourse from Truth to Truthiness October 10, 2009Milwaukee. The final keynote of AoIR 2009 is by Megan Boler, editor of Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times. She begins by noting the shared sense of aporia at the conference. What do we do as we face the rapidly changing environments of social media - do we feel let down by the Internet, do we daily have to renegotiate the changing visage of t […]Snurb
- Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence in Amazon's Mechanical Turk October 10, 2009Milwaukee. The final speaker in this session at AoIR 2009 is David Bello, whose focus is on Amazon's Mechanical Turk system. This is a form of crowdsourcing, which itself combines the outsourcing of labour to an external provider with community-provided open source labour; crowdsourcing thus exhibits an open quality where users are not employed or hired […]Snurb
- Two New Book Chapters on Produtzung November 23, 2009
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- That Hallowed Standard of Accuracy: Oops November 25, 2009My heart goes out, at least a little, to Tom Bohs, editorial page editor of the Jackson Sun in Tennessee. He is undoubtedly wishing he’d spent a little more time on a column he published this week. His piece, entitled “Citizen journalist, pick your beat.” featured some standard, boilerplate stereotypes — such as people with mobile-pho […]Dan Gillmor
- Can’t Anyone Here Do Percentages? November 24, 2009My colleague Steve Doig captured a truly bizarre chart broadcast today on Fox News. Add the numbers to understand why.Dan Gillmor
- Who’s the Hero? November 23, 2009The photo at left is from the back cover of Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. It exemplifies much of what can be right with American journalism, and some of what’s wrong, too. The part to celebrate, of course, is CNN’s decision to highlight some eminently praise-worthy people. Yes, there’s an element of cliche about it — [...]Dan Gillmor
- That Hallowed Standard of Accuracy: Oops November 25, 2009
