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Category Archives: internet
Electronic Arts, The Consumerist, and the Myopia of Internet Slacktivism
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Share the post “Electronic Arts, The Consumerist, and the Myopia of Internet Slacktivism”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailIn place of Political Gunpowder, I’d like to do a brief blog post. Recently, Electronic Arts was voted the worst company in North America by the readers of … Continue reading
Newt Gingrich Rageface
Share the post “Newt Gingrich Rageface”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe photo on the left is from Charles Ommanney of Newsweek. It makes Newt look like a ragecomic, the memetastic drawings that populate websites like Reddit and 4Chan. Users make ragecomics with a set of … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 GOP nomination, internet, Newt Gingrich
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This Is Not A Drill
Share the post “This Is Not A Drill”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailIN SOLIDARITY WITH THE INTERNET Osborne Ink went dark for twelve hours today along with an estimated 7,000 other websites, including WikiPedia, Reddit, and Wired. This is to show you what the internet … Continue reading
Cops Scared Witless by Internet Meme
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Share the post “Cops Scared Witless by Internet Meme”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailFor those of you just joining us, Pedobear began life as an internet meme — a Japanime character used to flag illegal pornographic content on 4chan. Someone in New Mexico is immune … Continue reading
Posted in Golden Memes, internet
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Netroots Failure
Share the post “Netroots Failure”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail I caught this at Reuters last week. It’s an analysis of the likely outcome of the FCC’s net neutrality decision this week: “There aren’t really any better options for Copps and Clyburn than to support … Continue reading
Posted in fiasco, internet, Net Neutrality, Netroots Nation
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Geeks Shall Rule The World
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Share the post “Geeks Shall Rule The World”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The Guardian is the only newspaper to which I would actually subscribe anymore. This article on how WikiLeaks supporters have engaged in DDOS attacks (Distributed Denial Of Service) finds the pulse of … Continue reading
L’Affaire Assange
Share the post “L’Affaire Assange”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailUnknown hackers are busy attacking various websites today in response to the U.S. pressure tactics on WikiLeaks; I expected as much. Without a sanction, corporations are more than willing to help the advance of fascism in … Continue reading
Posted in internet, Virtual Reality Living, WikiLeaks
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Gibson’s Law Strikes Again
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Share the post “Gibson’s Law Strikes Again”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe first thing down the memory-hole is the existence of a memory-hole. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy — the man in charge of Australian internet censorship — has been caught censoring his own government site … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, Gibson's Law, internet
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Internet Nominated for Nobel Prize
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Share the post “Internet Nominated for Nobel Prize”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI’m not making this up.
Posted in internet, Nobel Peace Prize
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The Emperor’s New Map
Share the post “The Emperor’s New Map”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe AP has stirred my inner map geek at exactly the right time. A million-dollar map is on rare public display: The map created by Matteo Ricci was the first in Chinese to show … Continue reading
Posted in China, Chinese censorship, globalization, Google, internet, Political Geography
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