Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99% Protesters volunteering for the internet and information boards of the Occupy Wall Street protest work and broadcast from their media center in Zuccotti Plaza on Oct. 2, 2011.
Photo: Bryan Derballa for Wired.com “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own Facebook,” said Ed Knutson, a web and mobile app developer who joined a team of activist-geeks redesigning social networking for the era of global protest. They hope the technology they are developing can go well beyond Occupy Wall Street to help establish more distributed social networks, better online business collaboration and perhaps even add to the long-dreamed-of semantic web — an internet made not of messy text, but one unified by underlying meta-data that computers can easily parse.
[bug id="occupy"]The impetus is understandable. Now it’s time for activists to move beyond other people’s social networks and build their own, according to Knutson. How Occupy Stopped the Supercommittee" The Archdruid Report. Occupy protests: There's an app for that. When Apple introduced the iPad, most of its advertising focused on the applications it could showcase.
Their most popular ads ended with the catchy slogan, "There's an App For That". Now there's an App for Occupy Wall Street, as up to date and tech savvy as any of the top of the line offerings available through Apple stores. This one not only aggregates news - or at least some of it - in the world press, but offers access to social media to Twitter feeds and Facebook. There are Facebook reports zinging around the internet. Ralph Gomory: Occupy Wall Street Deserves Our Respect.
I must admit that there is something about Occupy Wall Street that makes me think of the American Revolution.
Not the fully developed American Revolution complete with an army, George Washington, and Valley Forge; I'm thinking of the earlier days, when there were only sporadic protests and occasional clashes. A potpourri of #OccupyWallStreet Videos (3) In the Land of No News by Timothy Snyder. Home for me is an interstate highway in the middle of the country after dark.
You could be anywhere, but you know exactly where you are. The coastal freeways, Interstates I-5 and 95, are busy and quotidian, but in the states that coastal people call “flyover country,” the big roads are our great, comforting Eisenhower modernity. The asphalt draws its lines over an uneven land, and the green signs order geography: odd numbered roads run north and south, even ones east and west; higher numbers north and east, lower south and west.
Group Endorses Walk Out in Economics 10. A small group of Harvard students and employees staged an “Occupy Speakout” at noon on Tuesday to express their solidarity with the “National Day of Action.” The group also sought to raise awareness of events they have planned for today, including a walkout of the popular Economics 10 introductory course and a March in Boston later in the day. “Mic Check! We are the 99 percent across the country!” The group chanted. The seven Mic Check participants drew attention to several initiatives taking place today, calling on students to join a campus-wide walkout Wednesday. “I urge all students to walk out of Ec 10, [because it] represents the ideology that brought about our current economic situation,” shouted organizer Gabriel H. Rachel J. “I think a more diverse viewpoint needs to be raised,” Sandalow-Ash said.
An Open Letter to Greg Mankiw. The following letter was sent to Greg Mankiw by the organizers of today’s Economics 10 walkout.
Wednesday November 2, 2011 Dear Professor Mankiw— In Defense of Ec 10. Today, several Ec 10 students plan on walking out of class to express their “discontent with the bias inherent in [the] introductory economics course.”
(An open letter to Greg Mankiw gives a full description of why the students say they will be walking out.) Who is Occupy Wall Street? After six weeks, a profile finally emerges. Very cool video by friend inspired by Occupy Wall Street protests. Michal Shapiro is a good friend of this blog, longtime reader and occasional mentor.
She just joined Wikistrat because we want her analytically sharp but artistically infused perspective, which she shares regularly in a blog at HuffPo. Why? We don't want Wikistrat to simply replicate the closed society of intell/consultants from the real world. We want breadth, so that means subject matter experts from around the dial so blind spots in thinking are rooted out ("Has anybody ever considered . . .? ") Unbelievable Rant on MSNBC! Reporter CRACKS & Spews TRUTH! Occupy Wall Street Anonymous LOOK!
Beyond the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education: Global Youth Resistance and the American/British Divide. Occupy Movement Inspires Unions to Embrace Bold Tactics. Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical imagination. Why are people occupying Wall Street?
Why has the occupation – despite the latest police crackdown – sent out sparks across America, within days, inspiring hundreds of people to send pizzas, money, equipment and, now, to start their own movements called OccupyChicago, OccupyFlorida, in OccupyDenver or OccupyLA? There are obvious reasons. A potpourri of #OccupyWallStreet Videos (4) Semi-Random Notes on the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Movement. (October 20, 2011) Here are some semi-random notes on the Occupy Wall Street movement, based partly on some "insider" contacts.
I am honored to have long been in email correspondence with David DeGraw of Amped Status, one of the key initial organizers of the Occupy Wall Street movement. As a result of our mutual support society/correspondence, I am also honored to be included in an email group of people I consider the leading lights in the movement to restore democracy and fiscal sanity to this nation, people like Matt Taibbi, Barry Ritholtz, William Black, Max Keiser, Dylan Ratigan, Karl Denninger, Yves Smith, Michael Hudson, Nomi Prins, David Cay Johnston, Paul Craig Roberts, "George Washington" and Tyler Durden, to name some whose work you have probably read. I want to start by saying that David DeGraw has acted under extreme pressure with integrity and grace at every step of this amazing journey. There are definitely other significant groups that played a key role.
Chinese leaders grow nervous about Occupy Wall Street. REPORTING FROM BEIJING -- On Oct. 6, Occupy Wall Street inspired some little-noticed sympathy in Zhengzhou, a city in central China's Henan province, when hundreds of pensioners and Communist Party members gathered to express their solidarity with the movement.
Photos show a small group of demonstrators, many wearing red armbands, holding a banner that reads, "Resolutely support the American People’s mighty Wall Street Revolution. " But the demonstrators may have crossed an invisible line with the Chinese Communist Party. Videos and pictures of the demonstrations were scrubbed from the Internet within days. Censors have selectively blocked discussion of Occupy Wall Street on social media websites and pared down coverage in the state-run press.
"When Occupy Wall Street first happened, the Chinese government perceived this movement as a big victory for communism over capitalism," said Wen Yunchao, a prominent Chinese blogger based in Hong Kong. NYC Protest for American Revolution. #OccupyWallStreet as a Global Unconference. Reflections on Occupy Wall Street and Contactcon (part 1) I arrived in NYC in the afternoon to attend www.contactcon.com (an intense one day conference hosted by Douglas Rushkoff rushkoff.com working with Venessa Miemis emergentbydesign.com and www.laureadeocampo.com/ ).
Since I could not connect with anyone from the Contact event, I headed to the Wall Street area, and spent the rest of the evening participating in and observing and learning about Occupy Wall Street. As German Pirate Party Hits 10%, Some Thoughts On The Next Five Years. This morning, the German Pirate Party hit double digits in a nationwide poll. That was a landmark event, no matter how you look at it. As the first double-digit poll reverbs in the five-year-old Pirate Party community, I’d like to take some time to reflect on these and the next five years. Not only is the German Piratenpartei polling at double digits, by the way: they are also in Kingmaker Position, holding the balance of power between the German political blocks.
If this was the next election result, that means that they can ask for basically anything and make it happen in Germany and Europe. There’s Something Happening Here. In The Halls Of The Hedge Fund Hackers. Global Nuisance or Revolutionary Brilliance. A potpourri of videos on #OccupyWallStreet (2)