links for 2008-01-19
Written on January 19, 2008
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useful links
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"The move has sparked protests by regular fans of Scrabulous keen to keep the add-on running". I feel this can be the "Digg numbet" defining moment for Facebook community
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Ars Technica reports that the Swedish prosecutors sent 4000 pages of legal documentation pertaining to the suit against popular Swedish BitTorrent tracker, The Pirate Bay
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"he is attempting to use the RWW brand to his commercial advantage - by buying a mobile domain and a bunch of international domains for readwriteweb and trying to piggy-back off the brand name and RWW's Google rank. I would term this 'brand squatting' "
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This wiki-based curriculum combines texts that address the social, political, economic, cultural aspects of participatory media with practical instructions in the use of each medium. Exercises combine theory and practice:
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Portfolio interviews the high schooler who hacked into the servers of MediaDefender and shared their email data with the rest of the world
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Loud talkers, lost books ... and the occasional sniper fire, rocket attacks, and death threats are what Saad Eskander is up against in rebuilding the National Library and Archive.
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Handshake [a ring] is designed to exchange basic information with new people in the first meeting by shaking hands.
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an insightful story from NYT on how the falling populations of fish are forcing more African to seek illegal ways to migrate to Europe
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List of ubiquitous computing research centers
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Story2Oh! is an experiment in internet storytelling. The characters spend lotsstory2oh! smaller of time on the web and their stories unfold through their Facebook activity, their video podcasts, their blogs and the rest of their social networking
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In what could be a first in the world of political advertising, a message created by a deeply unhappy Arkansas voter that initially came alive on the web in December is going to air on television tonight in the important primary state of South Carolina
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The acacias and a species of ant that colonize them live together in an arrangement called mutualism. The ants nest in the trees’ thorns and sip on their nectar; in return, they swarm out ferociously, ready to bite, when a tree is disturbed by an elepha
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twittpoll.com is the opinion channel of twitter. By following @twittpoll you get the newest polls from twittpoll.com.
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