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Eve Online makes users become real citizens
Who rules a virtual world? We’ve talked about this quite a few times lately (like here).
Well, in one case that question has been answered: Eve Online will be governed by the users, says a New York Times article:
The kingdom is in crisis. After pledging to treat its citizens equally, the government stands accused of […]
IFPI rhetorics imply that file-sharing supports terrorism
A few days ago, IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) put out a press release titled “ten inconvenient truths“, which claims to offer new insights into the dirty world of digital piracy.
Apart from the fact that the titles is a rather weak reference to the movie about Al Gore and global warming (”An Inconvenient […]
Fundraising model: Weblogs for a good cause
Just stumbled upon something at Reporters Without Borders (RSF) which I hadn’t noticed before: RSF offers weblog hosting. For a monthly fee (5,90 or 14,90 Euros depending on the plan) you get an ad-free blog and RSF’s promise that they won’t work with the police in restrictive countries by giving out your details. (Like Yahoo […]
DailyKos: The blogosphere represents Democrats’ values rather than Republicans’
In a great little interview talk between David Weinberger (”Everything is Miscellaneous“) and Markos Zuniga (dailykos.com), Markos discusses the characteristics of weblogs and their political implications. Of the things Markos said, one point in particular stuck out for me: The blogosphere, in contrast to traditional media, favors the kind of bottom-up, discussion-based and somewhat chaotic […]
U.S. election candidates’ websites: all the same
I haven’t been following up the U.S. online election campaigns closely enough. Just had a quick glance at some of the candidates’ websites. From what I’ve checked (mostly the Democrats) so far, I have to say I’m amazed: Those candidates’ websites all look practically the same, from the general structure to a near-identical intro screen […]
Joost: Social TV as a campaigning tool?
Joost, the new social TV project by Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennstrøm and Janus Friis, has just left the closed beta phase and has recently switched to (for lack of a better term) open beta.
One of the things announced is that there’s a developer kit in the making, which will allow hackers to come […]
Barack Obama’s campaign takes control over supporter MySpace page
After a MySpace page supporting Barack Obama’s run for presidency - and created under his name, which is quite common for supporter or fan pages - became too popular, Obama’s campaign office took control of the page:
The page was originally created by 29 year old Joe Anthony. Anthony first created the profile after hearing […]
Save net radio, save pandora.com
This email really made me gulp:
Dear Pandora listener,
Today we have some extremely disappointing news to share with you. Due to international licensing constraints, we are deeply, deeply sorry to say that we must begin proactively preventing access to Pandora’s streaming service for most countries outside of the U.S.
It is difficult to convey just how […]
The Art of the Prank weblog launched
Joey Skaggs lauched The Art of the Prank, a weblog about, well: Pranks.
BoingBoing’s David Pescovitz talked to Joey:
BB: What’s the big idea?
Skaggs: Art comes in many colors and hues, shapes, sizes and forms. It can be decorative, functional, socially iconoclastic, or even politically revolutionary. To me the prank is fine art. Perpetrating pranks has […]
100$ Laptop + Twitter = The End of Information Control
The chances that Nicholas Negroponte’s awesome One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC, aka the 100$ Laptop project) offer for education are pretty obvious: Where there’s access to knowledge, there’s a better chance to get educated. It sort of levels the playing field, to some degree or another.
But with the capacity of those laptops to instantly […]