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feng37

The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism | DigiActive.org - 0 views

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  • We are very excited to announce the release of The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism.  Following the recent protests in Moldova, the value of Twitter as a tool for digital activism is more prominent than ever.  Yet in addition to bringing greater awareness to that tool, the hype surrounding Moldova revealed misunderstanding of the value of of Twitter for activism and, even though the realists responded strongly, there was not a stand-alone resource which clearly defined how Twitter could be used by activists.  We hope this guide will fill that void.
feng37

Cory Doctorow: Big Brother is not watching | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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shared by feng37 on 18 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Needles in a haystackThe problem of sifting through vast amounts of data was highlighted by the US 9/11 Commission, which concluded that the American intelligence community knew in advance that the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were in the offing, they just didn't know they knew it. The pieces were all there for anyone who knew to look for them, needles buried in a haystack of irrelevancies. The answer in both America and Britain has been to collect more haystacks: useless, indiscriminately acquired information onpeople who've done nothing to arouse suspicion. We even inveigle our citizens to become amateur curtain-twitchers and pecksniffs, demanding that they report "suspicious" activity to the authorities.
  • feng37 on 18 Jun 08
     
    Needles in a haystack The problem of sifting through vast amounts of data was highlighted by the US 9/11 Commission, which concluded that the American intelligence community knew in advance that the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were in the offing, they just didn't know they knew it. The pieces were all there for anyone who knew to look for them, needles buried in a haystack of irrelevancies. The answer in both America and Britain has been to collect more haystacks: useless, indiscriminately acquired information on people who've done nothing to arouse suspicion. We even inveigle our citizens to become amateur curtain-twitchers and pecksniffs, demanding that they report "suspicious" activity to the authorities.
feng37

Digital Resistance and the Orange Revolution « iRevolution - 0 views

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shared by feng37 on 19 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Maidan was a group of tech-savvy pro-democracy activists who used the Internet as a tool to support their movement. Maidan in Ukranian means public square and Maidan’s website features the slogal “You CAN chnage the world you live in. And you can do it now. In Ukraine.”
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      feng37 on 19 Feb 09
       
      买单？
  • The main activity of Maidan was election monitoring and networking with other pro-democracy organizations around Eastern Europe.
  • “websites cannot produce an activist organization.”
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  • it was crucial for Maidan to frequently host real world meetings as their membership base increased. The human element was particularly important. This explains why Maidan encouraged users to disclose their identity whenever possible.
  • The community benefited from centralized leadership that developed the organization’s culture, controlled its assets and provided the strategy to achieve desired goals. The Maidan experience thus demonstrates a hybrid organization.
  • Pora, meaning “It’s Time” in Ukranian, was a well-organized group of  pro-democracy volunteers that “emerged as an information sharing campaign and during the elections morphed into coordinators of mass protest centered around tent cities in towns throughout Ukraine. The grassroots movement took its inspiration from Serbia’s Otpor movements as well as “older civic movements in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.”
  • “the active use of modern communication systems in the campaign’s management,” and “mobile phones played an important role for mobile fleet of activists.”
  • “a ssytem of immedate dissemination of information by SMS was put in place and proved important.” In addition, “some groups provided the phones themselves, while others provided SIM cards, and most provided airtime.”
  • roviding rapid reporting in a way that no other medium could. As tent cities across the Ukraine became the sign of the revolution,
  • The news feed from the regions [became] vitally important. Every 10 to 15 minutes another tent city appeared in some town or other, and the fact was soon reported on the air.
  • While the government certainly saw the Internet as a threat, the government had not come to consensus regarding the “legal and political frameworks it would use to silence journalists that published openly on this new medium.”
  • many online journalists unlike mainstream journalists were free from the threat of defamation charges.
  • one of the earliest examples of what Steven Mann calls “sousveillance,” meaning, “the monitoring of authority figures by grassroots groups, using the technologies and techniques of surveillance.”
  • Technology certainly does not make possible a direct democracy, where everyone can participate in a decision, nor representative democracy where decision makers are elected; nor is it really a one-person-one-vote referendum style democracy. Instead it is a consultative process known as ‘rough consensus and running code.’
  • the real power of traditional media. Natalia Dmytruk worked for the Ukraine’s state-run television news program as an interpreter of sign language for the hearing-impaired. As the revolution picked up momentum, she decided she couldn’t lie anymore and broke from the script with the following message: I am addressing everybody who is deaf in the Ukraine. Our president is Victor Yushchenko. Do not trust the results of the central election committee. They are all lies. . . . And I am very ashamed to translate such lies to you. Maybe you will see me again…
  • “Dmytruk’s live silent signal helped spread the news, and more people began spilling into the streets to contest the vote.”
  • itizen journalists and digital activists participated in civil resistance trainings across the country, courtesy of Otpor. The use of humor and puns directed at the regime is a classic civil resistance tactic.
  • one of key reasons that explains the success of the revolution has to do with the fact that “the protesters were very well trained and very good at protesting… very, very good.”
  • Digital activists need to acquire the tactical and strategic know-how developed over decades of civil resistance movements. Otherwise, tactical victories by digital activists may never translate into overall strategic victory for a civil resistance movement.
Roger Chen

Is Web 2.0 Living on Thin Air? - Tom Davenport - 0 views

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internetwatch reading thinking web2.0

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  • Did you wonder whether our economy had grown a little overly precious? How can we really be producing value if we're all sitting around blogging and Facebook-friending each other?
  • 1999 the British think-tanker Charles Leadbeater published the book Living on Thin Air. It was both an appealing notion and a scary one: that we no longer have to produce anything but ideas. And that was even before Web 2.0--a platform for everyone to share their ideas, opinions, favorite tunes, and relationship statuses with each other. It was all a lot of fun, but I occasionally wondered whether it was really good for economic productivity.
  • it wouldn't be a bad outcome if the current crisis led to a more diligent, industrious economic climate. Chatting and socializing are important things, but they're not the only things.
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  • But it seems to me that many of the activities, business models, and assumptions behind social media are a bit fluffy, and that fluffiness is going to be difficult to maintain in the post-bubble environment we now find ourselves in.
  • Socializing as a distraction has always existed. Though there are more ways to do this now, people still have the ability to recognize that which produces real value in their life, both economically and socially. Balance between these has always been a challenge.
  • A few years from now, only the successful, profitable, and useful will survive.
arden dzx

Milk Contamination to Catalyze Counsumer Awareness and Accountability | Crossroads - 0 views

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三鹿 公民社会 奶粉

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  • With that in mind, what Taihu’s Algae was to environmentalism, and the 5.12 earthquake was to philanthropy, this latest scandal will be the next turning point in China’s civil society.
  • Chinese parents hold little else more important than their child’s health, and as we saw in Sichuan after the loss of thousands of school children, parents are not afraid to be vocal and active.  Where this will be an opportunity to take civil society, and public participation, to the next level is that the public at large (children or not) will relate to those who have been affected.
isaac Mao

CICI: The Chinese Internet Censorship Index // Uncensor - Activism Against China's Net ... - 0 views

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shared by isaac Mao on 26 Jul 08 - Cached
  • This chart shows recent changes in the Chinese Internet Censorship Index (CICI) value. Values less than 100% shows that sites are being blocked in China (but not outside of China). Lower values indicate more censorship — we're aiming to get China 100% censorship-free!
  • isaac Mao on 26 Jul 08
     
    Great!
Kenyth Zeng

open...: A Sad Day for Copyright - 0 views

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business-model copyright law share trends

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  • Google's top copyright man, he wrote his blog in a purely private capacity as one of the leading copyright scholars in the world.
  • copyright has become less and less responsive to the balance of incentives and exceptions
  • Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works
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  • its principal functions now are to preserve existing failed business models, to suppress new business models and technologies, and to obtain, if possible, enormous windfall profits from activity that not only causes no harm, but which is beneficial to copyright owners
evawoo

Crisis and Response - Part III - 0 views

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  • Furthermore, China will be tested for its willingness and ability to play a more active international role, commensurate to its growing world-power status.
  • While it is understandable that the Chinese public has been emotionally involved in such a calamity so close to home, the country will command universal respect when its government and its citizens display as much care to other humanitarian crises around the world as they have at home.
t-salon

Tibetan Activists Take Stand In Torch Relay's Path - WSJ.com - 0 views

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activism advertising beijing china csr olympics tibet

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  • t-salon on 15 Mar 08
     
    "The demonstrations pose challenges for the Chinese government and for the Games' corporate sponsors, who are caught between the risks of offending Beijing and the dangers of alienating customers more sympathetic to activists' causes, ranging from Tibet to China's close ties to Sudan, which is battling rebels in Darfur."
evawoo

Transcript: James Miles interview on Tibet - CNN.com - 0 views

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tibet

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  • BEIJING, China (CNN) -- James Miles, of The Economist, has just returned from Lhasa, Tibet. The following is a transcript of an interview he gave to CNN. James Miles
  • So in effect what they did was sacrifice the livelihoods of many, many ethnic Han Chinese in the city for the sake of letting the rioters vent their anger. And then being able to move in gradually with troops with rifles that they occasionally let off with single shots, apparently warning shots, in order to scare everybody back into their homes and put an end to this.
  • Well the Chinese response to this was very interesting. B
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  • What I saw was calculated targeted violence against an ethnic group, or I should say two ethnic groups, primarily ethnic Han Chinese living in Lhasa, but also members of the Muslim Hui minority in Lhasa.
  • Well we didn't see any evidence of any organized activity, at least there was nothing in what I sensed and saw during those couple of days of unrest in Lhasa, there was anything organized behind it.
  • Now numerous Hans that I spoke to say that they are so afraid they may leave the city, which may have very damaging consequences for Lhasa's economy, Tibet's economy.
  • But their fear now is that Tibetans will blow up the railway line. That it is now actually safer to fly out of Tibet than to go by railway.
  • And also many troops there whose uniforms were distinctly lacking in the usual insignia of either the police or the riot police. So my very, very strong suspicion is that the army is out there and is in control in Lhasa. A
  • I've been a journalist in China now for 15 years altogether. This is the first time that I've ever got official approval to go to Tibet. And it's remarkable I think that they decided to let me stay there and probably they felt that it was a bit of a gamble. But as the protests went on I think they also probably felt that having me there would help to get across the scale of the ethnically-targeted violence that the Chinese themselves have also been trying to highlight.
  • And the authorities were responding to these occasional clashes with Tibetans not by moving forward rapidly with either riot police and truncheons and shields, or indeed troops with rifles. But for a long time, just with occasional, with the very occasional round of tear gas
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Kenyth Zeng

Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creatio... - 0 views

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article blog copyright law trends

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  • the best way to know you have a mind is to change it
  • if you worry about what others think of you, you will be living their version of your life and not yours.
  • Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works
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  • Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve existing failed business models, to suppress new business models and technologies, and to obtain, if possible, enormous windfall profits from activity that not only causes no harm, but which is beneficial to copyright owners
  • the copyright law we used to know can never be put back together again: multilateral and trade agreements have ensured that, and quite deliberately.
feng37

Brain Power - Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory - Series - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Suppose scientists could erase certain memories by tinkering with a single substance in the brain. Could make you forget a chronic fear, a traumatic loss, even a bad habit.
  • Researchers in Brooklyn have recently accomplished comparable feats, with a single dose of an experimental drug delivered to areas of the brain critical for holding specific types of memory, like emotional associations, spatial knowledge or motor skills.
  • The drug blocks the activity of a substance that the brain apparently needs to retain much of its learned information.
  • feng37 on 06 Apr 09
     
    打一次针，人的记忆可以彻底被和谐了
isaac Mao

这是一起赤裸裸的恐怖活动 » 李普曼 - 0 views

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xinjiang

shared by isaac Mao on 06 Jul 09 - Cached
  • 虽然政府及时控制了局面，但是恐惧感已经留在普通人的心中。而那些被极端分子棍棒生生打死的市民，在棍棒落下的那一刹那，在甚至在昨天的中午，在前天，何尝想到过自己会遭此厄运？
yuancheng

Propaganda | Berkeley Institute of Design - 27 views

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hci berkeley bid

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  • It acknowledges that design in the era of ubiquitous technologies means not only technical innovation, but deep understanding of behavior
  • This compels a new approach to design that is partly technical, but also deeply social and humanist.
  • Understanding activity means understanding values, needs, lifestyle, mythologies, aesthetics, social and cultural norms, and individual and social psychology
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  • Context-aware and ambient systems.
  • Location-based services (LBSes) and LB collaborative systems.
  • The Master’s degree will comprise a core program of six courses and two or more optional courses.
  • Design grapples with the impossible complexity of everyday human action, and shines light on a path that can lead to better quality of life.
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