links for 2007-12-21

• A Pause From Death - New York Times
  The countries in the U.N. against outlawing the death penalty as official barbarism: "The United States, as usual, lined up on the other side, with Iran, China, Pakistan, Sudan and Iraq. Together this blood brotherhood accounts for more than 90 percent of
  (tags: death penalty, united nations)
• PR Squared - The Bastardization Of Social Media by Todd Defren
  "I was beginning to smell a rat. [...] They didn’t want to be part of the conversation; they wanted to be the topic of the conversation."
  (tags: todd+defren social+media)