The Story of Stuff Project has produced some great videos on things we need to change to make our planet a better place and our lives more worth living. This one on the funding of political campaigns by corporations is perhaps a bit specific of the United States, but it’s easy to see how the […]
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The Web is (not) dead…if you believe Scientific American, not Wired, by Mark Fischetti
Another worth read on why we should be aware of the current “assault” on the open web and the efforts to take back control from users and into the hands of communications, media and publishing corporations. Amplify’d from www.scientificamerican.com Too often, we don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. That could happen with the […]
Tim Berners-Lee – Long live the web
I wish more influential people engaged in the fight against the “closing” and “controlling” of the web. Amplify’d from www.scientificamerican.com The Web as we know it, however, is being threatened in different ways. Some of its most successful inhabitants have begun to chip away at its principles. Large social-networking sites are walling off information posted […]