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

Digital SweatShops

The Expropriation of Digital Labor  and What to Do About It
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Quotes From the article:
Post-Mortem Conference Mashup: The Internet as Playground and Factory
by Trebor Scholz scholzt@newschool.edu
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Frequent reference points in the animated conversations included practices like gold farming, game modding, blogging, “turking” on Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk, gaming in World of [...]

Amsterdamers: “the smart bike”

This bicycle comes complete with a kinetic energy recovery system (KERS), sensors, a smart lock, and a Bluetooth connection to the rider’s iPhone.
The onboard sensors monitor bike speed, distance traveled, direction, pollution levels, and proximity of friends, and the smart lock sends you a text message if someone tries to steal your bike.

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in English

A film telling the story of Steve Kurtz.

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Mdia

Steve Kurtz is a founding member of the award-winning art and theater collective, Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). . He is known for his work in BioArt, and Electronic Civil Disobedience, and because of his arrest by the FBI in May 2004. Steve Kurtz faced charge for 20 years of inprisionment.
In May 2004 the Kurtzes were [...]

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

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Mdia

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 [...]

The web2.0 suicide machine

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Mdia

Everyone should have the right to disconnect. Seamless connectivity and rich social experience offered by web2.0 companies are the very antithesis of human freedom. Users are entrapped in a high resolution panoptic prison without walls, accessible from anywhere in the world. Everyone should have the right to quit her 2.0-ified life. Facebook and Co. are [...]

Nicholas Carr on The Price of Free (in NY Times)

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Mdia

The Price of Free
By NICHOLAS CARR
Published in the NYT on November 13, 2009
When, in late September, rumors surfaced that Comcast was trying to buy NBC Universal from General Electric, Wall Street reacted with dismay. Grandiose attempts to combine media production and distribution — programming and plumbing — are nothing new in the entertainment business, but [...]

Celebrating the new ‘in english’ area of my blog, Monty Python embed

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Mdia

“We’re letting you see absolutely everything for free. So there! But we want something in return. None of your driveling, mindless comments. Instead, we want you to click on the links, buy our movies & TV shows and soften our pain and disgust at being ripped off all these years.”

Livro em rede

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Mdia

(english underneath)
Durou dois anos e o ‘ Livro em Rede’ http://networkedbook.org/ está aí, aberto a comentários, revisões e traduções. O público pode tambem submeter um capítulo, que, depois de consideração, pode ser adicionado ao livro. “Networked” , o ‘livro em rede’, parte do princípio de que a história e a crítica de [...]