Craigslist
Craig Newmark erklärt Stephen Colbert seine Seite Craigslist, wer sie noch nicht kennt:
Oppenheimers Geist
Trotz aller Hoffnungen, die man heute aufgrund der technologischen Entwicklung haben darf, bleiben neben den kleinen Zweifeln, immer noch die großen Fragen der Technoethik. Jason Potin erinnert an J. Robert Oppenheimer:
Since his death, biographies have represented him as a cultured leftist intellectual at odds with brutish right-wing militarists. But the physicist’s attitude to the nuclear bomb–and to the capacity of technology to be used for both moral and immoral ends–was more complicated.
Semantisches Web für Alle
Twine ist ein neues Tool von Radar Networks, das eine andere Form der Informationsorganisation für jederman ermöglichen soll.
Technology Review: The Semantic Web Goes Mainstream
Twine is a website where people can dump information that’s important to them, from strings of e-mails to YouTube videos. Or, if a user prefers, Twine can automatically collect all the Web pages she visited, e-mails she sent and received, and so on. Once Twine has some information, it starts to analyze it and automatically sort it into categories that include the people involved, concepts discussed, and places, organizations, and companies. This way, when a user is searching for something, she can have quick access to related information about it. Twine also uses elements of social networking so that a user has access to information collected by others in her network. All this creates a sort of “collective intelligence,” says Nova Spivack, CEO and founder of Radar Networks.
Ist Filesharing wirklich superböse?
Torrentfreak sprach mit einem 9-jährigen Mädchen Verbrecherin:
Tags:Digitalkultur, Filesharing, LimeWire, YouTubeTF. Do you think its legal or illegal to copy a CD or DVD?
- Some men right, they sell you a DVD at the market but when you get home it doesn’t play, that’s illegal.
TF. Why is it illegal?
- Duh!! Because they tell you it works and when you get it home it’s rubbish and jumps in the middle and its a waste of money!
TF. Do you think you should be paying for stuff off LimeWire? You have to buy CD’s from the shop…
- You have to pay for CD’s because they’re actually on a disc not on the computer. My cousin, right, she uses LimeWire when she doesn’t have any money for CDs.
Open Source Architektur für soziale Netzwerke
Guter Ansatz von Idealog, der zahlreiche Ideen für eine Plattform nach dem Modell von Facebook zusammenfasst:
The core module provides services that link these new open source networks together and offer consumers the ability to choose one service to host their profile, while still interacting and connecting with friends on other services. Whereas today, consumers are locked in to using proprietary social networks where most of their friends gather, this architecture would allow consumers to choose their own profile service while still interacting with friends on other services.
In Deutschland hätte ein Open Source Modell vielleicht auch noch mehr Chancen als in den USA, da das StudiVZ 1) unter Innovationsmangel leidet und 2) bereits Strukturen an den Hochschulen existieren, die grundsätzlich freiheitlichen Modellen aufgeschlossen sein müssten. Ziel der Fachschaften müsste es z.B. sein, eigene Informationsnetzwerke zur Hochschulpolitik einzurichten.
Ein Jahr Citizendium
Larry Sager bilanziert und schaut nach vorne:
It’s been exactly one year since work on the Citizendium wiki started ramping up. I said then that I was properly skeptical about our chances and that the project was experimental. Well, no longer. Now it’s time to report the results of the experiment: we’ve made a very strong start and an amazing future likely lies ahead of us.
Wer Citizendium noch nicht kennt, kann sich hier einen Überblick verschaffen.
Tags:Citizendium, Larry Sager, WikiYouTube kehrt nach China zurück
Danwei berichtet, dass YouTube in einigen chinesischen Städten wieder erreichbar ist und fordert seine Landsleute dazu auf, das einzig plausible in dieser Situation zu tun:
Youtube, everyone’s favorite video website (to judge from the reader comments to the most recent blockage post) seems to be unblocked both here and in Shanghai.
So turn off those proxies and suck down as much video as you can before the Nanny gets ticked off again.
Einen aktuellen und informativen Artikel über Chinas Great Firewall findet man bei Wired.
Tags:China, Great Firewall, Return, YouTubeIT und Parteipolitik
Beitrag im “When IT meets Politics”-Blog von Philip Virgo, der bedenkenlos auch auf Deutschland angewandt werden kann:
So what are YOU doing to help educate and interest YOUR MP in why the contribution of our industry to modern society is so important and in what they need to do to help ensure that boring things, like our communications infrastructure (as essential to the health and wealth of 21st century society as clean supply and efficient drains were to Victorian England) are fit for purpose, that policies on issues like Data Protection, Identity Management are based on practical experience not theoretical fantasy and that restrictions on civil liberties, like the extension of detention without trial, are not blamed on ICT (time to decrypt computer files) without evidence that the changes would make a commensurate difference to public safety.
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