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The picture above is from We Are The 99 Percent , a Tumblr blog where people post stories of economic hardship. The chart below shows the frequency of posts on the blog since it got going in early September. I've posted this because my hunch is that out of all the online manifestations of the "Occupy Wall Street" protests, it is the closest thing to a barometer of how much traction the movement is getting.
Social media and the Wall Street protests: #Occupytheweb | The Economist
Wikileaks publishes documents on plan to curb free software in the European Union
Julian Assange - Wikileaks Yesterday, 10/09/2010 at 11:47 PM (UTC+1), this post started to receive a serie of comments, insults and offensive phrases that made me to moderate the site for first time.
We live in a world clothed in data, and as we interact with it, we create more.
The Web 2.0 Summit Points of Control Map
Piratage : nouvelle forme de propriété ou nouveau type de délit
While we're on the topic of academic papers and how they're linked, Johan Bollen et. al used clickstream data to draw detailed maps of science , from the point of view of those actually reading the papers. That is, instead of relying on citations, they used log data on how readers request papers, in the form of a billion user interactions on various web portals.
Network Visualization
Technologies die violent deaths less often than we think. This is the basic problem with the Chris Anderson-anchored Wired cover story, " The Web is Dead. " If you think about technology as a series of waves, each displacing the last, perhaps the rise of mobile apps would lead you to conclude that the browser-based web is a goner.
What's Wrong With 'X Is Dead' - Science and Tech - The Atlantic
4G mobile networks: From Russia with bandwidth | The Economist
WHILE much of the world is still rolling out the third generation (3G) of mobile networks, some countries have already moved on to the fourth (4G). Russia offers an intriguing example. Yota, a start-up with no old voice business to protect, has built a 4G network from scratch, burying 3,000km (1,864 miles) of fibre-optic cables to connect its wireless base stations.News: Nice things about the web
Oh how the Bay Area culture loves to make technology a life-and-death struggle. Things that were never alive in the first place, like the web and RSS are said to be "dead."Flattr.com
Support great web content There’s a brave new world filled with entertainment, news and tools made by everyone, and not just the big guys.Flattr is a new startup with an inovative business model, coming out of Sweden. In fact it’s the brainchild of a group of people formerly associated with The [infamous] Pirate Bay, including Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi. It’s highly ironic that Flattr has sprung from a similar group that refused to pay for content, like movies.
Is Flattr the new Facebook Like, but this time with real money?
“I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview.
Op-Ed Contributor - Google’s Earth - NYTimes.com
Net Neutrality