campaigns
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 […]
Free Culture Movement Timeline - on a chalkboard
At MIT’s Beyond Broadcast 2007, the working group “Free Culture Activism and the Mass Media Conversation” made this great timeline of the free culture movement on a chalk board.
Link to photo on flickr, link to full size (BIG!) (via)
Second Life Liberation Army (SLLA) demand basic political rights for avatars
The Second Life Liberation Army (SLLA), who have been getting plenty of coverage for their terror attacks virtual mock terror attacks, demands basic political rights for Second Life avatars. From their mission statement:
The Second Life Liberation Army (SLLA) was formed as the ‘in-world’ military wing of a national liberation movement within Second Life. The […]
OpenCongress: Making political decisions transparent by mashing up all available data
About a year ago, Participatory Culture Foundation brought us the Democracy Player, a great open source media platform that can do much more than show you some video clips. (Although it’s pretty good at that, too.) The same bunch recently founded another organization, Participatory Politics Foundation (PPF).
PPF now teamed up with the always-impressive Sunlight […]
John Edwards’ (unofficial) Second Life campaign HQ vandalized
John Edwards was, as far as I know, the first candidate in the U.S. presidential elections with a campaign presence in Second Life (if only an unofficial one). As of yesterday, he’s got another first: His Second Life headquarters became vandalized.
Techpresident.com spoke it over with Jordan Bigel (aka Dire Lobo in Second Life) from InWorld […]
Anti-Lock In Law for web apps?
The more web apps we use, and the better they are, the more we trust them with our data. Apart from all privacy issues: Lock-in is becoming more and more of a problem. What happens to your pictures (and the way you sorted them) when you cancel your flickr account? What about Gmail, Google Calendar […]
U.S. elections online campaigns discover social networks (again)
The last U.S. presidential election campaigns put weblogs on the agenda. So what’s the deal this time? Barack Obama’s campaigning website includes a social networking site, MyBarackObama. But what with social networking having been around for quite awhile (in web terms, that is)? Before the 2004 U.S. elections, the mainstream media had hardly noted the […]
Oscar torrents
Ha, this is hilarious. Piratebay launched OscarTorrents:
OscarTorrents is the Oscars as it should be — everyone can download the year’s nominations using the popular BitTorrent service, watch the movies, then use our rating system to choose their favourites. Why restrict the voting to a few bought-off jurors when the whole world can have their say?
Now […]
internet phones, censorship and net neutrality
Recently, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) stated that Skype has signed a contract with the Chinese government stating that Skype would block out certain keywords. (Probably all the daaaangerous stuff, such as freedom, democracy or Mao comics. Kidding. Anyway.) For links and info, see my old post here. Now, this is pretty bad, obviously. Blocking keywords […]