45 days ago by cocoy

A Visualization of the Internet Tell me if you’ve heard this all before. I’d imagine online life was simple back then, back when the The Mentor and his kind discovered the computer, then travelled the electron, and the switch and started to marvel at the beauty of the baud. It was a simpler time bec ...

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45 days ago by Big McLargehuge

This story by Daniel Tencer is a re-post from the Raw Story. Plan to keep Internet free of interference from ISPs draws opposition from GOP, service providers Six Republican senators have introduced an amendment that would block the Federal Communications Commission from implementing its recently an ...

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93 days ago by gatekeepeR

So, I was doing my regular search for any possible news on the AT&T U-verse availability in Greensboro. I do this about every 2-3 months, as Charlotte and Raleigh have it already, and word has it that Winston-Salem has been getting boxes installed. I stumbled across a couple of articles that I’ve ob ...

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111 days ago by mchakrabarti

Now we know that Amazon can delete anything it wants from your electronic reader. That’s an awesome power, and Amazon’s justification in this instance is beside the point. As our media libraries get converted to 1’s and 0’s, we are at risk of losing what we take for granted today: full ownership of ...

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130 days ago by Max Senges

I had a very productive meeting with Eddan Katz from the Electronic Fountier Foundation last Thursday. At the end of our conversation we found out that we both have a passion philosophy (of technology) and he recommended me the work on values in (technology) design done at the Center for Science, Te ...

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141 days ago by Max Senges

Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the emotional world of the Web: also the two projects sites are interesting http://www.wefeelfine.org/ Universe, which explores the notions of modern mythology and contemporary constellations. http://universe.daylife.com/ -- background: http://universe.daylife. ...

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179 days ago by wildwallaby

This is just fantastic, I feel safer already and a multi-state attorney general task force can go forth with their heads held high seeking re-election. Today, internet sites have the task of policing the content their members and users post. They deserve all that they get for letting people do bad a ...

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187 days ago by Michael Geist

The political importance of Internet rights became apparent yet again today as the European Parliament rejected the entire Telecoms Package due to support for access to the Internet as a fundamental right (see also here and here). That amendment is a direct challenge to the three strikes approach (i ...

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195 days ago

wrote an interesting post today onHere's a quick excerpt AFP Apple sued for stifling iPod tricksAFPSAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Internet rights champions have accused Apple of stifling free speech by bullying OdioWorks into ending online sharing of ways to get iPods to work with music websites other than i ...

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213 days ago by Max Senges

Over Christmas I met one of my academic-philosophic role models, Rafael Capurro. It was a gray german winter day, and as always when i meet an established elder I admire, I was full of excitement and a bit nervous. I am always especially nervous, when i meet intellectual specialists (Prof. Capurro h ...

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