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The Great Firewall of China: Blocks some websites, doesn’t others.
China’s approach to filter & censor huge chunks of internet traffic within China - the so-called Great Firewall of China - has been troublesome to Chinese dissidents and human rights advocates alike for quite a while. To at least make the issues somewhat more transparent for those outside China, a non-profit group of webbies and […]
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 […]
Culture Clash: Busy Economy vs Burst Economy
Anne Zelenka recently wrote a great busy vs bursty manifesto on Web Worker Daily, comparing the “busyness economy” (aka traditional) with the “burst economy” (aka the web):
There’s a culture clash inside office buildings where workers from the busyness economy sit in cubicles next to workers from the burst economy — web workers. Yes, that’s right: […]
Jeremiah Owyang: Why your corporate website is irrelevant
The corporate website is an unbelievable collection of hyperbole, artificial branding, and pro-corporate content. As a result, trusted decisions are being made on other locations on the internet.
Definitively check out this great post by Jeremiah Owyang: Why your corporate website is irrelevant. Without going into the details (which you should read), Jeremiah concludes:
The corporate website […]
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 […]
Yahoo’s ever-ongoing account mergers: No choice for users
What is it with Yahoo and their user accounts? Whenever they take over a service, account have to be merged with Yahoo’s very own Yahoo!ID. From the company’s point of view, this makes sense, of course: A, it makes integration of these services much easier, and B, it allows for much more efficient data mining. […]
Nicole Simon: A European View on Web 2.0
Nicole Simon gave a great presentation at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Topic: A European View on Web 2.0. I strongly suggest watching the slides, no matter if you’re American or work for a US company, or if you’re from somewhere else but deal with US companies a lot: Either way, she’s very much […]
“The best way to protect your privacy is to give it away”, says professor targeted wrongly by the FBI
On Wired, author Clive Thompson tells the amazing story of Hasan Elahi, a Bangladeshi-born 35-year-old American artist and Rutgers professor. Ever since the US government had put him wrongly on the terror suspect list, he’s been afraid to be detained on one of his many trips around the world - so he decided to create […]
Preserving your digital memories, explained by Library of Congress
As David Weinberger points out in his (so far great) book Everything is Miscellaneous, the way librarians used to order information is pretty much obsolete in the digital world.
(Just for clarification, it’s not the librarians’ fault, it’s just the way the meatspace works: One physical object can only occupy one space at the time, and […]
Russia engaging in cyber war against Estonia?
Around the end of last month, Estonia has removed the Bronze Soldier Soviet war memorial in central Tallinn. Ever since, Estonia and Russia have been in a pretty bad dispute. At the same time, Estonia has been subjected to…
(…) a barrage of cyber warfare, disabling the websites of government ministries, political parties, newspapers, banks, and […]