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  2. If the government sees the internet as a tool to fight corruption, why do they routinely block search terms related to corruption? If the government is finally cracking down on misconduct, why did an independent journalist, and not the state media, break the story?

    China Gets Its First Political Sex Tape Scandal  |  VICE

    (Source: wilkinsky.us)

  3. “If you had asked me ten years ago if I’d be willing let someone install tracking device on me I would have said ‘fuck no!’” he says. But now he, like so many others, carries a mobile phone that tracks his movements.

    “And why is everyone making money off our data besides us?” he asks. “The people making regulations, or not making regulations as the case may be, are all on the profit side right now.”

    “The world changed because of the internet, and the world will change because of big data,” he says. “I don’t know how, and I don’t think all the changes will be good. I just want to get people thinking.”

    (Source: wilkinsky.us)

  4. The Tumblr, for all its webbiness, embraced a kind of back-to-the-future sensibility: a suggestion of what campaign messaging looked like in previous ages, when it played out on the community level.

    The Atlantic, on the Obama campaign Tumblr — perhaps the best piece yet on political memedom, the uniqueness of Tumblr as a platform, and why it makes sense in the political sphere. (Only thing missing: a quote from Liba Rubenstein!)

    (Source: jessbennett)

  5. The journalist has not been replaced but displaced, moved higher up the editorial chain from the production of initial observations to the role that emphasizes verification and interpretation, bringing sense to the streams of text, audio, photos and video produced by the public.

    Clay Shirky, Emily Bell, C.W. Anderson, Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the present (via soupsoup)

  6. The latest example of Google search history becoming evidence

    (Source: wilkinsky.us)

  7. I’m thankful for net neutrality

    Make no mistake: The free-flowing Internet as we know it will be history.

    What does that mean? It means we could be headed toward a pay-per-view Internet where Web sites have fees. It means we may have to pay a network tax to run voice-over-the-Internet phones, use an advanced search engine, or chat via Instant Messenger. The next generation of inventions will be shut out of the top-tier service level. Meanwhile, the network owners will rake in even greater profits.

    (Source: savetheinternet.com)

  8. Is Apple's iMessage Killing Texting After All?

    As soon as Apple launched iOS 5 last year, many of us in the tech press took one look at its iMessage feature and thought the same thing: The carriers are screwed. This week, we saw the first sign that that prediction may be coming true. 

    (Source: wilkinsky.us)

  10. Designing Colleges For More Than Just Connectivity | Fast Company

    Imagine a campus where the immutable lecture hall (with fixed, stepped seating arranged in a forward position) ceases to be. In its stead: classrooms that are “hackable,” allowing students and professors to restructure the room based on the coursework, breaking into teams, writing on the walls, and engaging the high technology now present to communicate with like-minded students on the other side of the world. It’s not that these types of classrooms don’t exist; it’s that they are the anomaly and still sit in a Campus 1.0 structure (think traditional).

    Imagine a campus populated with spaces that create a culture of learning 24/7. Classroom buildings are alive with students all day, all night. Along with making classrooms/class time more collaborative, Campus 3.0 extends that same kind of energy to the surrounding spaces. Gone are the classroom buildings that go dark when the last bell rings for the day. Gone are the empty classrooms inhabited by students who squat here as a last resort and “hack” the kind of study/collaborative space they need.

    (Source: wilkinsky.us)

  11. Facebook Predicts the 2012 Presidential Election

    (Source: bostinno.com)

  12. Which will win? Native apps or HTML5? 

    A recent report from BI Intelligence explains why we think HTML5 will win out, and what an HTML future will look like for consumers, developers, and brands.

    Here’s how HTML5 will eventually win out: 

  13. The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

    Eric Schmidt (Executive Chairman of Google)

    (Source: wilkinsky.us)

  15. by The Verge:

    Patents to the people: US Patent and Trademark Office sends staffer to live among NYC startups

    Cornell’s new tech campus gets a resident patent examiner who will serve as a liaison to the software industry

  16. When, in history, have so many businesses, individual groups, and organizations promoted and directly assisted in the electoral process?

    The Internet Is Changing Everything

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