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Ed Webb

Open Culture: Burke, Paine and Jaron Lanier - 10 views

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openness sharing anarchism web openaccess content rights

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  • Ed Webb on 29 Oct 10
     
    I think Shevek's experiences in The Dispossessed might teach us something here.
Ed Webb

FastFiction - Intravenous Electric Fire - 7 views

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future dystopias fiction flashfiction

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  • Ed Webb on 25 Oct 10
     
    Can you evoke a world in 200 words?
Ed Webb

The Imagination Age: Surveillance Satire: A Cat Dumps a Woman in the Trash - 5 views

www.theimaginationage.net/...satire-cat-dumps-woman-in.html

surveillance satire funny

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  • Emily Bowie on 03 Oct 10
     
    Well. That was hilarious and very random. I was really confused until I found the video it was making fun of. I think that what the UK woman did was disgusting but I'm not sure how I feel about this video in concerns with surveillance. I think that surveillance can be taken too far, but the camera the owners had installed was to keep their car from being stolen or broken into. Which seems to me like a fair reason to install a camera. So I'm not sure.
Ed Webb

Generation Y Who, What, How - 4 views

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generations generationY socialmedia work

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  • Ed Webb on 10 Oct 10
     
    Hey, generation Y people - do you recognize yourselves?
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  • Michael D'Aprix on 17 Oct 10
     
    I don't really recognize myself in this at all. None of what he specified as a Gen Y'er relates to me. I'm perfectly content with working hard and doing my job the way I'm supposed to whether or not I enjoy it and whether or not it fits into my social schedual. I've worked plenty of 60 hour weeks to get things done!! Maybe one or two of my friends fit into this but mainly, the people I know are traditional hard workers.
  • Ed Webb on 07 Nov 10
     
    Do you think any such generalizations about generational attributes can be useful?
  • Michael D'Aprix on 08 Nov 10
     
    Generalizations are mostly a negative thing. I believe they get in the way of understanding a person or a group of people. Everything differs from person to person and by generalizing you can make things more difficult especially when it comes to work.
Ed Webb

Is Singapore utopia? - 4 views

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Singapore utopia dystopia economics

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  • Ed Webb on 13 Oct 10
     
    Discuss. I'm sure Jabiz would be interested!
Ed Webb

Bizarre Ultra Realistic Baby Dolls - 3 views

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creepy babies

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  • Emily Bowie on 24 Sep 10
     
    Wow. Just wow. Creepiest thing ever. I have always thought that baby dolls are creepy, but that just puts it at a whole new level. What is the point of this!?
Ed Webb

Tokyo trials digital billboards that scan passers-by - 3 views

www.physorg.com/news198392688.html

future surveillance dystopia privacy technology advertising Japan

shared by Ed Webb on 30 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Cris Miranda on 04 Oct 10
     
    You see I actually think this is kind of cool
  • ruhlch on 04 Oct 10
     
    Interesting...is this a glimpse into the future of advertising (personal billboards)?
Ed Webb

Are we raising a generation of nincompoops? - Boston.com - 3 views

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generation generations technology society

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  • Ed Webb on 30 Sep 10
     
    This is an example of a common and pernicious version of technophobia - the idea that overreliance on new tech disempowers and renders stupid a new generation. Does it have any credibility?
Ed Webb

Web Coupons Tell Stores More Than You Realize - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...17coupon.html

privacy internet web surveillance business advertising

shared by Ed Webb on 17 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Cris Miranda on 04 Oct 10
     
    I don't personally have a problem with this, but I do think this may just be the beginning of the death of privacy. It starts with coupons and ends with.... brainwashing. Naturally I'm a fan.
Ed Webb

Romantically Apocalyptic - 3 views

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apocalypse comics

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  • Ed Webb on 31 Jan 11
     
    I love this. You love this.
Ed Webb

To avoid ID, more are mutilating fingerprints - The Boston Globe - 2 views

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gothic security surveillance crime punishment

shared by Ed Webb on 22 Jul 10 - Cached
  • a sevenfold spike in people arrested with mutilated fingertips, a disturbing trend they said reflects dire efforts to evade the harsher punishments that come with multiple arrests, to avoid deportation, or to fool the increasingly sophisticated computers that do most fingerprint checks
  • While authorities have had some recent successes in identifying those with mutilated fingerprints, most have not been identified. Indeed, of the recorded arrests this decade in Massachusetts, only 17 percent were positively identified by matching their scuffed fingerprints with previously recorded prints.
  • detectives suspect they are missing many others who may have been recorded as new fingerprints by the state’s computer system, which receives on average about 700 fingerprint cards a day from some 360 law enforcement agencies around the state
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  • Officials at the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement said they do not keep national records of the number of suspects found to have deliberately disfigured their fingerprints.
  • Jose Elias Zaiter-Pou, a doctor who flew from the Dominican Republic and allegedly planned to surgically remove the fingerprints of illegal immigrants for a $4,500 fee
  • Surface cuts do not do the job, he said; the marring must go deep under the skin, which grows back with the original patterns if not sufficiently disfigured.
  • “I can’t imagine the pain it must take. You have to get deep down, in the nerve endings. I see these people, to go to this extreme, as a real danger to society.’’
  • Ed Webb on 22 Jul 10
     
    Sign in stranger
  • Emily Bowie on 03 Oct 10
     
    Ahhh that's disgusting. And disturbing. And it's awful that people feel they need to go to this extreme.
Ed Webb

Psychogeographical Survival In The Sentient City - PSFK - 2 views

www.psfk.com/...ival-in-the-sentient-city.html

surveillance dystopia RFIDs art ARG

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  • Ed Webb on 04 Oct 10
     
    Is it art? Is it a game?
Ed Webb

Gay Dallas couple legally weds in Texas, aims to bring e-marriage to the masses - Dalla... - 2 views

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marriage LGBT Texas US USA equality awesome internet skype

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  • Ed Webb on 12 Nov 10
     
    Could one get married in SecondLife? Via chat or txt?
Ed Webb

The Stupidest Thing an Editor With Three Decades of Experience Has Said About... - 2 views

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plagiarism internet copyright

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  • Ed Webb on 05 Nov 10
     
    Remember, sharing is good, but stealing is bad. It pays to know the difference...
Ed Webb

School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home Boing Boing - 2 views

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privacy education schools surveillance USA Pennsyltucky dystopia

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  • Kennisha Williams on 04 Oct 10
     
    I can't imagine our school using us as students to sign up for their gateway programs and internet connections to be spying on us through our computer thats crazy, I'm sorry but I wont stand for that and neaither would my parents if that was the case.
Ed Webb

AFP: Beijing officials trained in social media: report - 2 views

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China internet socialmedia censorship propaganda

shared by Ed Webb on 14 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Chinese web users frequently refer to the "50 cent army", rumoured to be a group of freelance propagandists who post pro-Communist Party entries on blogs and websites, posing as ordinary members of the public.
Ed Webb

Many 'extinct' species still alive, biologists say - CNN.com - 2 views

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environment ecology extinction

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  • Ed Webb on 01 Oct 10
     
    A rare bit of good news on biodiversity and species survival.
Ed Webb

Soaring Above India's Poverty, a 27-Story Home - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...29mumbai.html

India globalization

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  • Blade Runner-meets-Babylon
  • even here in the country’s financial capital, where residents bear daily witness to the stark extremes of Indian wealth and poverty, Mr. Ambani’s building is so spectacularly over the top that the city’s already elastic boundaries of excess and disparity are being stretched to new dimensions
  • Blade Runner-meets-Babylon
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  • Blade Runner-meets-Babylon
Ed Webb

In today's dispatch from Planet Irony... - 1 views

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plagiarism

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  • Ed Webb on 23 Sep 10
     
    Plagiarism is bad, okay?
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