The evolutionary ebb and flow of freedom, liberty, and the collective continues on the Web, as it has throughout the history of the public sphere.
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Extraordinary Rendition: Assange & Extradition Chic
Newsweek gives Julian Assange's "mansion arrest" the Martha Stewart treatment.
Read More »This Snowmaker Packed a Punch
As this image from the GOES-13 satellite shows, the snow that hit the Eastern Seaboard was delivered by a formidable storm. Picture after the jump.
Read More »The Tangled Web of Net Neutrality
Perspectives on the FCC's recent net neutrality ruling leave us thinking about the the rise of the app and the enclosure of the commons.
Read More »The Leaks of the House of Usher
"If the Internet was walking around in public, it would look and act a lot like Julian Assange. " Bruce Sterling's take on Wikileaks, an affair worthy of Edgar Allan Poe.
Read More »Wikileaks, Nirvana, and the Net of Indra
In a post at the Atlantic today, Jaron Lanier offers to reframe the Wikileaks question. But what he does looks much more like the infamous mission statement of the National Review: to stand athwart history yelling �stop!�
Read More »In 2010, the EFF leveled up
In 2010, the Electronic Frontier Foundation fought copyright monopolies, walled-garden mobile phone formats, and privacy invasion in the social media, helping keep the Internet safe�even for 8-bit nostalgia. Video after the jump.
Read More »Google TV takes a break from its regular schedule
Google has asked its corporate partners in the company�s television venture to delay the introduction of products supporting the new broadcasting platform, thanks to poor reviews and a fickle and uncertain market for Internet TV.
Read More »Bradley Manning is the key
With Julian Assange now free on bail in England, we should ask what the plight of his forsaken source has to say about the Wikileaks moment.
Read More »After the Fall
Chris Beckman's short film "oops" stitches together appropriated camera-drop pratfalls from uploaded videos to suggest a network of serendipitous mishap. Video after the jump.
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