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Donald Rumsfeld says 2.3 Trillion Dollars missing at Pentagon 1 DAY before the 9/11 tragedy.

If we learned that the government was planning to limit our First Amendment rights, we'd be outraged. After all, our right to be heard is fundamental to our democracy. Well, our free speech rights are under assault -- not from the government but from corporations seeking to control the flow of information in America. If that scares you as much as it scares me, then you need to care about net neutrality. "Net neutrality" sounds arcane, but it's fundamental to free speech. The internet today is an open marketplace. If you have a product, you can sell it. If you have an opinion, you can blog about it. If you have an idea, you can share it with the world. And no matter who you are -- a corporation selling a new widget, a senator making a political argument or just a Minnesotan sharing a funny cat video -- you have equal access to that marketplace.

...to measuring the impacts of the proposed US Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) on returns to public investment in R&D. The aim is to define and scope the data collection requirements and further model developments necessary for a robust estimate of the likely impacts of the proposed FRPAA archiving mandate. 

Paul Graham hat mit dem Verkauf seiner Shop Lösung an Yahoo 1998 Millionen von Dollar gemacht. Er ist Buchautor und respektierter Columnist. Ein Artikel von ihm, warum seiner Meinung nach Yahoo scheiterte und FB und Google erfolgreicht waren.

Sometimes inequality is bad for almost everyone, and sometimes only for certain people; sometimes it is worst for the people at the bottom, and sometimes it is just as bad for the people at the top. Different societies are equal or unequal for different reasons, sometimes by necessity, sometimes by choice. More equality is a good thing and it's an idea that's worth defending. It would be nice if there were more politicians willing to stand up and defend it, however they saw fit.

Hier sieht man wie EU-Mandatare abgestimmt haben

Das Beispiel Obama zeigt: das Internet ist ein überzeugendes Wahlkampfinstrument, für die reale Politik aber birgt das Probleme...

ECOresearch NetworkDepartment of New Media TechnologyMODUL University Vienna Professor Arno Scharl 

The paper provides some support in favor of Twitter adoption being driven by outreach reasons, rather than the well-popularized transparency motive. Furthermore, outreach considerations factor into a Republican's perceived benefit more than a Democrat's.

Join Senator Franken: Stand with me to save Net Neutrality and stop the Corporate Takeover of our Media

über das bin ich auch schon gestolpert. interesting!

Dank YouTube, Twitter und Blogs ist die Katastrophe von Duisburg gut dokumentiert. Soziale Netzwerke könnten zur Aufklärung beitragen - wenn man die Nutzer ernst nimmt.

In einer aktuellen Verbraucherumfrage haben amerikanische Nutzer dem Netzwerk schlechtere Noten gegeben als dem Internetauftritt ihres Finanzamts. Dennoch hier die schockierende These: Bald wird sich einer über Facebook so wenig wundern, wie man auch nicht erstaunt nachfragen würde: „Was, du machst mit bei diesem Wahnsinn namens Telefonbuch?" Oder: „Was, du gehst abends zu fremden Leuten in die Bar, anstatt gemütlich zu Hause wirklich guten Wein zu trinken?" Fragt ja auch keiner: „Ist das nicht doof, gefährlich gar?"

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Green damm etc.

Noam Chomsky's radical views on language found him global fame. 50 years on, the professor disusses death threats, the internet and why he thinks Obama was marketed like a brand of toothpaste.

Affairs outside of marriage are nothing new, but this take on monogamy is.