All articles from: January, 2010

Dominant Power: Why The Cloud Tsunami Changes Everything?

Survival Blue-Print Where once fire, brute force, mechanised violence and then wealth through industry and trading were dominant forms of power in the world, information manifest as digital capital is now becoming the dominant power in the 21st century. Those nations and organisations with the greatest freedom of information and means of transmitting it have [...]

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Don’t let them terminate the internet!!!

New ACTA Leak Confirms Major Threat to InternetGeüpload door shellyroche. – Ontdek meer wetenschapsvideo’s. NOTE: This video has subtitles in English if you watch it from Daily Motion! Save Jim NowGeüpload door SaveJim. – Nieuwe video’s uit de hele wereld.

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Artists, web2.0 and Haiti

Artists United for Haiti and Heroes 4 Haiti are nice initiatives and made me think on utopias. Is the web2.0 what we hoped for? A ‘place’ where world citizens hang out, exchange ideas and have the power to change reality? It would be beautiful if we all could help one of the poorest nations in [...]

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Guy arrested for Twitting his frustration. DATA from StarTrek did this?

When an autist sees a sign where is written ‘ don’t step on the grass’ he or she wold understand it as ‘ do not step in all grass in the whole world at all times’. That is because they understand the message literally. We, “normal” people, would interpret the message and understand that as [...]

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Sun, zon , sol: simple map

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Facebook has sent a “Cease and Desist letter” to the makers from the ‘Web 2.0 Suicide Machine’

Facebook has sent a “Cease and Desist letter” to the makers from the ‘Web 2.0 Suicide Machine’ http://www.suicidemachine.org

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Facebook stuurdde een bevel tot stoppen aan de makers van de ‘suicidemachine’ .

Namens Facebook hebben de Amerikaanse advocaten Perkins Coie Mike van Gaasbeek, bedrijfsleider van WORM Rotterdam, een “Cease and Desist letter” (bevel tot stoppen) voor de Web 2.0 Suicide Machine gestuurd. De Suicide Machine is gemaakt door MODDR , het medialab van WORM.

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Discussie over ‘Wikipedia-censuur’

via nettime Op Duitse hackerscongres CCC is een fel debat gevoerd over het beleid van Wikipedia om artikelen te verwijderen vanwege een “gebrek aan relevantie”.Volgens sommige betrokkenen is er geen sprake van een kwaliteitsslag, maar wordt er censuur bedreven. Het probleem komt voort uit het principe dat iedereen aan de encyclopedie kan meewerken. Vrijwilligers kunnen [...]

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