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Scribd, like various other crowd-sourced, social websites that have lined up in opposition to SOPA — Reddit and Tumblr being two of the most high-profile — believes that SOPA and PIPA would...
Wikipedia was just one of what was speculated as hundreds of websites -- like Reporters Without Borders -- to go dark Wednesday to protest the anti-piracy bills, which critics say amount to...
The danger for Occupy Wall Street now is that a so-far-successful tactic can take on a life of its own, the means is elevated over the ends. The occupation of physical spaces has attracted the...
There are,of course,plenty of efforts to use social media to help improve governing.Here in America,the Obama administration has,for example,created its own e-petitions site,where people can...
Describing the protest, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Twitter at 6pm UK time Monday that "Final details under consideration but consensus seems to be for "full" rather than...
Nova Spivack, CEO of Bottlenose.com, started a Change.org petition to urge Twitter to keep its developer API ecosystem open. He said, “Twitter, what kind of bird are you becoming? Are you still...
The first big Occupy Wall Street ad buy came thanks to 168 people donating money online through a crowd-sourcing website called Loudsauce, which facilitates small donations of less than $100. Two...
A cable line linking data centers in the states of Virginia and Florida was severed about 1300 GMT, according to the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia.org and other...
Wikipedia is a live collaboration differing from paper-based reference sources in important ways. Unlike printed encyclopedias, Wikipedia is continually created and updated, with articles on...
The Wikimedia Foundation plans to take down the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours on Wednesday, January 18 to protest proposed legislation currently under review in Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate.
The “Occupy 99Designs” design contest, which launched Wednesday and will run until February 8, has garnered nearly 400 entries in its first few hours online. The winner will get $1,000 and, most...
They are constantly reminded of the shortcomings of citizen journalism and social media, crowdsourcing, and other tools that have pushed themselves to the forefront of journalism and media today....
An Army project to study the irrationality of group conduct could offer a counter-point to the argument that crowds are infinitely wise, helping to frame crowdsourcing in a less threatening way....
Cartagen (http://cartagen.org) is a vector-based, client-side framework for rendering maps in native HTML 5. Written in JavaScript, it uses the new Canvas element to load mapping data from...
The discussions begins with a more directed look at the revolution in Egypt, and the response of the government to block sites, then the internet, then communications in general – and then move...
The first plans for Help Me Investigate were made in 2008 and were further developed over the next 18 months. They built on research into crowdsourced investigative journalism, as well as other...
Help Me Investigate is a website that aims to help those who want to investigate questions in the public interest by providing resources, tips, tools, and access to an online community. In 2010 the...
Shortly after the video exploded online, Krupnick went to crowdsourcing fundraising website Kickstarter to attempt to raise $4,800 to video distribution. But “Girl Walk” had already been picked up...
More Russian mass protests against the election results are scheduled for this Saturday: up to 30,000 people are allowed to gather in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square, and 11 other cities in Russia...
It’s not the first blackout protest that has been staged to show users just what they might find happening to their favorite sites should SOPA pass. Microblogging site tumblr prompted almost 90,000...
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