Tag: SEPTEMBER11

The National September 11th Memorial & Museum and Brooklyn-based startup Broadcastr have teamed up to curate an oral history of the infamous day's events. As part of Broadcastr's debut next month, it will host over 2,000 interviews with eye witnesses and first responders about their experiences on September 11th, 2001. About a week after the site goes public, Broadcastr will offer both iPhone ...

The official website of the Dove World Outreach Center unexpectedly shut down today, just two days before the Florida church's highly publicized Koran-burning event. Dan Goodgame, a spokesman for Web-hosting firm Rackspace, tells the AFP that the church's page was pulled because it "violated the Offensive Content section of [Rackspace's] Acceptable Use policy." Rackspace's policy expressly bans ...

Joining the ranks of Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and New York gubernatorial candidates Rick Lazio and (the unlikely) Carl Paladino, former NYC Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik has also come out in opposition of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque. That's great news for the anti-mosque organizers, but we must remind ourselves that Kerik is also a convicted felon currently serving time in Cumberland, ...

Share A few days ago, Republican prizefighter Sarah Palin posted a Facebook note titled 'An Intolerable Mistake on Hallowed Ground.' In the statement, Palin railed against a proposal to build a new mosque near the site of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, comparing the proposed construction to a "stab in the heart" for many Americans. [Ed. Note: As New Yorkers who pass this daily, we'd like ...

Wikileaks normally deals in sensitive information from whistle-blowers inside governments and companies. But its latest project, a collection of pager and text messages sent on the morning of September 11, 2001, crosses from simple news dissemination and political activism to a work of art. Starting the morning of November 25, at 3 a.m., Wikileaks began "broadcasting" over 500,000 messages ...

The Internet, with its vast amount of information and myriad services, has undeniably changed the way we live. It makes communicating across the world, finding a nearby restaurant, or getting directions to just about anywhere as simple as typing a few words and clicking a few buttons. But the open nature of the Web makes it just as useful for terrorists as it does us normal folk. AP reported ...