The Network will not be Revolutionized.
Read more »The Digital Given–10 Web 2.0 Theses by Ippolita, Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter
The Stupidity of ‘Smart’ Phones
Because iPhones are married to AT&T, frustrated users can't abandon the telecom company for a more savvy carrier. So much for consumer choice.
Read more »In Defense Of The Classic Controller
At the E3 debut of Project Natal, Microsoft's Don Mattrick called the controllers we've known and loved "a barrier separating video game players from everyone else." Wait. Isn't that the point? Should video game controllers really disappear?
Read more »Cash for Pirate Bay file-sharers
The new owners of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay say users will be paid for sharing files. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8128551.stm
Read more »China bars use of virtual money for trading in real goods
China has unveiled the first official rule on the use of virtual currency in the trade of real goods and services to limit its possible impact on the real financial system. http://english.mofcom.gov.cn/aarticle/newsrelease/commonnews/200906/2009...
Read more »RIAA settles suit where defendant had no PC
RIAA member Universal Music Group this past weekend was forced to settle a music file sharing lawsuit it had filed against New Hampshire resident Mavis Roy. The label dropped its case after evidence provided by anti-piracy snooping firm MediaSentry was successfully challenged by the defense's expert witness Dr. Sergey Bratus.
Read more »Global Network Initiative
a group that includes Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and academic and human rights organizations, endorsed a code of ethics last year that commits companies to "respect, protect and advance user rights to freedom of expression and privacy". Organizers hope to recruit other companies, such as Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard http://www.globalnetworkinitiative.org/
Read more »The Web vs. the Republic of Iran
Twitter gives Iranians a voice, but the government still controls the Internet.
Read more »Iran's Web Spying Aided By Western Technology
"If you sell networks, you also, intrinsically, sell the capability to intercept any communication that runs over them," said Mr. Roome. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124562668777335653.html
Read more »Twitter on the Barricades: Six Lessons Learned
But does the label Twitter Revolution, which has been slapped on the two most recent events, oversell the technology? Skeptics note that only a small number of people used Twitter to organize protests in Iran and that individual text messaging, old-fashioned word of mouth and Farsi-language Web sites were more influential. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/weekinreview/21cohenweb.html
Read more »Getting inside a downloader's head
The Digital Britain report advocates the latest step in the war against illegal downloaders, requiring ISPs to write them notification letters and monitor persistent offenders. But what of the other side of the fight against piracy, the effort to win hearts and minds? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8106805.stm
Read more »Opting out of Targeted Ads Too Hard, Privacy Advocates Say
The online advertising industry and U.S. policy makers need to give online users more control over the collection of personal data and surfing habits beyond the traditional opt-out approach, some privacy advocates said Wednesday. http://www.pcworld.com/article/166051/opting_out_of_targeted_ads_too_har...
Read more »Iran, Twitter and the CNN Fail
Yet while the Twittering classes were bending over backward to find more information and connect to more people in Iran -- going so far as to provide proxy servers for Iranians being blocked from the Internet -- CNN and other cable news outlets were busy running evergreen documentaries and Larry King reruns. http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/09/06/15/iran-twitter-and-cnn-fail
Read more »Iran: The Revolution Will Bypass Your Filters
The Iranian state is getting desperate, and tries to throttle internet traffic... But every few seconds there is a twitter giving new proxy addresses that can be accessed from inside Iran. Even with net speed down to a crawl, activists keep pushing information through. http://unheardvoice.net/blog/2009/06/17/iran-filters/
Read more »Privacy study shows Google’s eyes are everywhere
Using trackers called “web bugs,” third parties collect user data from many popular web sites, and sites often allow this, even though their privacy policies say they don’t share user data with others. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/06/01/daily22.html
Read more »On Game Art, Circuit Bending and Speedrunning as Counter-Practice: 'Hard' and 'Soft' Nonexistence
Becoming unmeasurable, or nonexistent, in relation to this particular classification [between "user" and "programmer"], which is created through a subject's relationship to technology, represents a productive way of thinking towards counter-practice under contemporary digital culture. http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=609
Read more »The Surprising Truth About Video Games and What Parents Should Do
A short interview with Dr. Lawrence Kutner, author of Grand Theft Childhood.
Read more »Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Wars in Cyberspace
The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace, administration officials said Thursday, stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/politics/29cyber.html?exprod=myyahoo
Read more »The ends of censorship
One type of censorship comes to an end, but a new is developing, writes cultural theorist Dave Boothroyd. The power that corporations such as Network Solutions or YouTube wield produces a new form of subjectivity characterized by self-censorship. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-05-26-boothroyd-en.html
Read more »The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online
http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_newsocial...
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