January 2011
35 posts
URGENT MESSAGE FROM ACTIVIST IN EGYPT. PLEASE...
thunderheist:
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“To all the people of world” Alicia Ali Marsden To all the people of world The people in Egypt are under governmental siege. Mubarak regime is banning Facebook, Twitter, and all other popular internet sites Now, the internet are completely blocked in Egypt. Tomorrow the government will block the 3 mobile phone network will be completely blocked. And there...
Al Jazeera Moves to Crowdsource →
futurejournalismproject:
Al Jazeera’s broadcast signal’s been blocked, some of its equipment confiscated and the Internet itself is still down in Egypt but the news organization is calling on bloggers and citizen journalists to submit information and media through its site.
Here for Arabic. And here for English.
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Great Interview on Al Jazeera: US urges reform in... →
PJ Crowley, spokesman for the US state department: “We want to make sure that Egypt is not interfering with the use of social media. That’s a fundamental right as clear as walking into a town square…”
Host: “Beyond social media though, rubber-coated steel bullets are being fired, hundreds are being detained in notorious prisons. Perhaps we should be emphasizing that...
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“Freedom of expression has guidelines.”
– Ahmed Nazif, Egyptian Prime Minister, via this Al Jazeera clip, Hundreds held in Egypt protests.
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“The American government gives our dictators tear gas, but our American friends...”
– from Ali Glenesk’s piece on Mondoweiss
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TLDR -- The Impossible Brief: Crowdsourcing the...
What follows is an excerpt from the first draft of one of my thesis chapters, Apartheid in the Global Village: Social Media and the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Comments and criticisms encouraged (ac.preston86[at]gmail.com)
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As The Wisdom of Crowds (Surowiecki, 2004) points out, collective knowledge can often be more precise than knowledge produced by any one person. Imagine, Surowiecki (2004)...
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Are we Deluded in Thinking that the Internet... →
“And this is where I think the important debate is: Is the internet as a technology subject to the same analysis as other technological developments? Can it largely be understood within the history and philosophy of technology, itself being shaped by the milieus into which it enters, determined by other forces, economics, politics, or human nature? or Is the internet a heterogenous...
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My Concert in Tel Aviv, Israel →
Macy Gray has decided to support apartheid:
“I am choosing to perform in Tel Aviv because I believe in the power of music. I believe that it brings people together, and offers magic and escape and laughter and the opportunity to feel good and dance. And why would anyone want to be deprived of those things and what good does that do? I honestly believe that if musicians are more...
“Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human...”
– John Pilger - 2009 (via danncove)
#BDS: Macy Gray is waiting to her from you: Shall... →
rednotebooks:
Tell Macy to boycott!
“No man who has a house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.”
– William Levitt, President of Levitt and Sons, builders of Levittown, New York (via vandalarchitect)
“Conservative columnist David Brooks, in an astonishingly superficial argument,...”
– Stephan Salisbury via AlterNet (via vsthepomegranate)
20 yards of linen: Neoliberalism and Videogames as... →
dropouthangoutspaceout:
One section from my recent thesis proposal.
In the popular narrative around videogames the most puzzling for many observers is the rapid growth and entrenchment of videogames in extreme representations of transgressive fantasies of violence and war. Avoiding the…
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“Open source is actually nothing new. Sharing of source code was widespread in...”
– Open-source software: Untangling code | The Economist (via interestingsnippets)
As Autonomist Marxists point out, capital (increasingly) relies upon enclosing the concrete activities of people within its logic — it marketizes, or appropriates, our doings. Open Source software is one recent...
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“Revolution is magnificent. Everything else is nonsense.”
– Rosa Luxemburg (via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
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“The trouble with Socialism is that it takes up too many evenings.”
– Oscar Wilde (via schofio)
“The real opportunity of social networking looks a lot more like Burning Man and...”
– Why Marketing Threatens the True Promise of Social Media
Rushkoff is on point.
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“Today, the digital communications revolution is also changing the social...”
– Daniel Drache - Defiant Publics. Re-reading this for a number of reasons (sup thesis), but mainly because I have been tasked with running a research project about Twitter for the next few months by Drache. (via dropouthangoutspaceout)
Looking forward to reading this
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Richmond Cops Mistakenly Hand Over Anti-Protest... →
cuntymint:
redguard:
After filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the Richmond Police Department for police training documents, Mo Karn received much more than expected in return: homeland security and crowd control guides that show how the police target protests.
The police filed for an emergency court order yesterday to prohibit Karn from publicizing any of the documents,...
“Just days after Amazon launched the ability to “lend” Kindle e-books to other...”
– Kindle users form e-book “Lending Club” on Facebook (via interestingsnippets)
