A prayer to Google

A Prayer to Google from paolo pedercini on Vimeo.

Celebrities Read Mean Tweets

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"the rewards of becoming "unplugged" were more rich & varied than any cyber reality could ever be"

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Romania: 'Hackerville', capital of global cybercrime

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New webtrend #milking

After planking and batmanning, the web world now has milking - a new internet craze sparked by a Newcastle student after he posted this video on his Facebook account.

Romanians are Smart or How to Change the Google Autocomplete Suggestions

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ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response)

Jack Joseph Kahn’s ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) sampler will help you work your way into the week. This is part 2 of America’s favorite past time, see Mary Ann Heagarty’s Soft Spoken HERE

Legalize this! Dutch party moves for DDoS decriminalization

Dutch opposition party D66 has proposed the legalization of DDoS attacks as a form of protest. Activists would have to warn of their action in advance, giving websites time to prepare for their attack. Kees Verhoeven, the campaign's leader, argues that it is strange that the fundamental right to demonstrate doesn’t extend to the online realm. The coming years would bring more instances of hacktivism, and it would be reasonable to introduce legislation to regulate, not ban it, he says. Verhoeven proposes that DDoS attacks be legalized so long as the protesters say when they will start their action. That way, a website would have time to prepare for the attack, just like an office building has time to get ready for a rally next to it. HERE

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Cute Girls Dressed As Nyan Cat

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ACTA is Useless… and a Threat, Says Ex-EU Lead Negotiator

"Yes, the agreement (ACTA) is legally binding, and as it is an international agreement, this means it is also binding over national and European law. This is the reason why members of the European Parliament are so worried about checking the conformity of ACTA with the “acquis communautaire”, we do not want to discover after several years that there is incompatibility between ACTA and our legislation, because this would mean that our legislation has to change, not the contrary."

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Telecomix Message to Commissioner Cecilia Malmström

We Rebuild is a decentralized cluster of net activists who have joined forces to collaborate on issues concerning access to a free Internet without intrusive surveillance. These issues span over many subjects and areas, which are reflected in a breadth of competences and opinions. There are no leaders, nor members. We Rebuild is simply an international chaotic event, and our actions can not be predicted in detail. For more information about the cluster, see the Werebuild Fourth Communiqué of the Internets. If you want to be a part of the cluster and help out with the wiki then please see the contact details below. And check out our Videos!

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My First Recession - Geert Lovink

Open publication - Free publishing

My First Recession starts after the party is over. This study maps the tran- sition of critical Internet culture from the mid to late 1990s Internet craze to the dotcom crash, the subsequent meltdown of global financial markets and 9/11. In his discussion of the dotcom boom-and-bust cycle, Geert Lovink lays out the challenges faced by critical Internet culture today. In a series of case studies, Lovink meticulously describes the ambivalent attitude that artists and activists take as they veer back and forth between euphoria and skepticism. As a part of this process, Lovink examines the internal dynamics of virtual communities through an analysis of the use of moderation and “collaborative filtering” on mailing lists and weblogs. He also confronts the practical and theoretical problems that appear as artists join the growing number of new-media education programs. Delving into the unexplored gold mines of list archives and weblogs, Lovink reveals a world that is largely unknown to both the general public and the Internet visionaries.