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  • Don’t let the box do your thinking

    SpinSpotter is a new browser plugin that uses the power of community on the internet to identify bias in online media. If you use Firefox you can install the “Spinoculars” which will allow you to see spin identified by other users, plus identify and categorize spin that you see. The plugin categorizes bias using the [...]

  • True web-savvy politicking

    Sean Tevis, an Information Architect running for Kansas State Representative, takes the whole “Politics 2.0” scene to the extreme by introducing himself in the form of an homage to webgeek comic xkcd. This guy is sure to steal all of Ron Paul’s followers. However, how much of the long tail resides in Kansas? [...]

  • Homo mobilis younghusbandus

    This morning, as the bright Japanese sun shone through the window, I rolled out of bed and grabbed my Macbook. Last night’s Colbert Report had been downloaded, I had a couple of dozen emails and a few hundred RSS items.

    I took the Macbook into the kitchen to brew some coffee and check Facebook. There were [...]

  • Anon analysis

    On the 15th of March, Anonymous took to the streets again in its War on Scientology. See the call to arms here. This is the second real life protest for Project Chanology. The date was symbolic: the 15th is known as the Ides of March, when Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. The next [...]

  • Free Tibet! Free the media!

    Stuart Brand is credited with saying Information wants to be free. Today we are seeing the internet work its magic in Tibet. Despite the fact that China is blocking YouTube, CNN and the BBC images and videos from the riots in Tibet are still seeping out to the web.

    This is all breaking so I don’t [...]

  • Who is the enemy?

    Well, there goes the fifth one. Over the past week four submarine communications cables have been cut and one damaged leaving more than a billion people throughout the Middle East and Asia Internet-blind.

    SeaMeWe-4 near Penang
    FLAG near Alexandria
    FLAG near the Dubai coast
    FALCON near Bandar Abbas
    SeaMeWe-4 near Alexandria

    Nobody seems to know what the hell is going on [...]

  • Is the War on Scientology 4GW?

    Well, the gauntlet has been thrown down:

    Anonymous have been clashing with the CoS for a while now, attacking servers, defacing websites etc. Now it seems the pulling of this Scientology promotional video featuring Tom Cruise (something they have a history of)has put them over the edge. War has been declared. BUT, this time the war [...]

  • The subscription walls keep coming down

    As of today, The Atlantic Monthly website is free to all visitors. Now you can go back and read all those old articles by Bob Kaplan. They still charge for some of their archives which date back to November 1857.

    Actually, this story broke yesterday on the NYT which took down its wall a few [...]

  • Volapuk

    In the book Spook Country William Gibson paints a picture of Cuban-Chinese gangsters who do parkour and communicate through a manufactured language called Volapuk.

    Gibson describes Volapuk through the character Milgrim on page 16:

    When the Russians got themselves computers, the keyboards and screen displays were Roman, not Cyrillic. They faked up something that looked like Cyrillic, [...]

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