Wikipedians have chosen to black out the English Wikipedia for the first time ever, because we are concerned that SOPA and PIPA will severely inhibit people’s access to online information. This is not a problem that will solely affect people in the United States: it will affect everyone around the world.
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SOPA – Google (only with US IP)
Sopa Resistance Day – Ars Technica
Fin janvier, Free Mobile aura 1 million de clients, a calculé Orange pour ses prévisions de trafic. Au cours de sa première semaine d’existence, le nouvel opérateur a il est vrai probablement déjà suscité entre 100.000 et 150.000 demandes d’abonnement quotidiennes, ce qui est énorme.
Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge – SOPA and PIPA
« Like a lot of Facebook’s studies, this collaboration with Politico is fascinating research, it’s just a real shame they can’t make the data publicly available, largely due to privacy concerns » bemoans Warden. « Without reproducability, it loses a lot of its scientific impact. With a traditional opinion poll, anyone with enough money can call up a similar number of people and test a survey’s conclusions. That’s not the case with Facebook data. » (via Why Facebook’s Data Sharing Matters)
Student warning! Do your homework early. Wikipedia protesting bad law on Wednesday! #sopa
« What we should be looking for are geographic information systems that gather and synthesize knowledge about all the Otherwise imagined by urban dwellers for any place in their city. This gathering of heterotopoi, and their synthesis in a common virtual spatial layer, is what I wish to call urban hetorostasis. In a democratic society, only hetorstasis can, in my eyes, legitimate an urban project. Can we conceive a pragmatic system which would bring about, or at least facilitate heterostais? » (via André Ourednik – Maps and Territories » Foucault’s left-overs and the urban heterostasis)