How DRM screws people with visual disabilities: a report from the front lines from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow ZDNet’s Rupert Goodwins is going blind. Most of us will lose a substantial fraction of our visual acuity, should we live long enough. As a service to his readers, Goodwins is documenting the way that technology … Read more
Muslim Brotherhood Teaches a Lesson in Elections in the Age of Twitter and Google Spreadsheets from technosociology by zeynep Shortly after the announcement that Mohamed Morsi had won Egypt?s presidential elections, political scientist Marc Lynch asks a very good question: Indeed, ex-president Hosni Mobarak had handily ?won? the ?elections? in 1987, 1993, 1999 and 2005, … Read more
Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2012 by Ernesto Which torrent sites get the most visitors at the start of 2012? At first glance little seems to have changed, as many of the sites in the top 10 have been among the top torrent sites for more than half a decade. But moving down … Read more
The European Parliament Prize for Journalism 2011: A #fail in the internet category [updated] from Ideas on Europe by Ronny Patz The winners of this year?s European Parliament Prize for Journalism have been announced today, and the jury?s choice for the winning text in the category ?Internet? is what one might call a #fail on … Read more
Not finding a new business model and falling back to paywall system… No, I am not going to use it. the New York Times definitely serves some quality journalism, but since September 11, I don’t need to get perspectives or news from NYT. There are so many other sources. Good luck NYT with your paywall:) … Read more
Bram Cohen Justin Frankel Jon Lech Johansen Shawn Fanning Four horsemen of the information apocalypse: Cohen, Fanning, Johansen and Frankel from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Time magazine’s Lev Grossman’s got a great profile of four authors of notorious software tools that formed the nexus of the last 12 years of copyright cold-wars: Bram Cohen … Read more