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 View more presentations from The New School University. Quotes From the article: Post-Mortem Conference Mashup: The Internet as Playground and Factory by Trebor Scholz scholzt@newschool.edu … Frequent reference points in the animated conversations included practices like gold farming, game modding, blogging, “turking” on Amazon.com’s Mechanical [...]

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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‘Pioneer One.’ the first ever made-for-torrent-series

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Mdia

I do believe in what Torrent Freak says: “One of the main challenges that independent content producers face today is not piracy, but finding ways to to get their work noticed.” Pioneer One is an ambitious project from Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith who have collaborated before on ‘The Lionshare’, a BitTorrent-exclusive film which was [...]

Beagle a great TV program.

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Mdia

Beagle: On the future of species The voyage of the HMS Beagle has been described as the most important journey ever made. During his travels, Charles Darwin gathered information and knowledge that would drastically change the way we look at the world. With his book “On the Origin of Species” (1859) Darwin would be the [...]

Pop-up is so passé! Korea Augmented Reality Book

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Mdia

South korean scientists have developed 3-D technology for books that makes characters literally leap off the page. The technology for producing Digilog Book whose development is currently under way at Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST) in South Korea. The Digilog Book is a next-generational e-book that allows readers to view content in 3D, [...]

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 [...]

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 as [...]

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 [...]

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