June 1, 2012
"[M]y mission is to have every precocious 13-year-old in the world have access to every bit of information they could ever want."

— Salman Kahn quoted in an article by Marco R. della Cava in USA Today. Sal Khan’s ‘Academy’ sparks a tech revolution in education

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May 22, 2012
"I should have asked you to take off your shoes at the door — you know, Japanese style — and put your iPhone in your shoes! And turn it off, so it doesn’t ring. Someday maybe this’ll happen, but it’s not guaranteed to make someone like me very popular."

— V. Vale interviewed in The Believer Magazine. 

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May 7, 2012
"Not only is Twitter a tightly networked circle of Chinese dissent, it is also a direct line to the foreign media. It thus can be an effective way for Chinese to send an SOS signal to the outside world"

— Emily Parker in The New Republic. How the Obama Administration’s Narrative About Chen Guangcheng Unraveled, One Tweet at a Time

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April 30, 2012
"A central paradox of this connected age is that while it’s easier than ever to share information and perspectives from different parts of the world, we may be encountering a narrower picture of the world than we did in less connected days."

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Ethan Zuckerman in The Wilson Quarterly. A Small World After All?

The Internet has changed many things, but not the insular habits of mind that keep the world from becoming truly connected.

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April 23, 2012
"The hard fact of democracy, which is always a crapshoot, is that for it to work we can’t shut out who or what we don’t like, who or what we have not bothered to encounter."

— Charles Taylor at Dissent Magazine. The Problem with Film Criticism

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April 19, 2012
"But what Berners-Lee is doing, in all his talk of the utility of data, is shifting the value proposition of personal information. He’s reframing digital data as something that has a direct value to the users who generate it — not as some kind of fuzzy extension of identity, but as information that has a pragmatic worth."

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Megan Garber at The Atlantic. The Founder of the Web Wants to Protect You From the Web

Tim Berners-Lee at The Guardian.

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April 18, 2012
"Media organizations have long been accused of bias. Social media shifted that bias from the organization to the user — the filter bubble of news chosen by friends, the friends themselves filtered by assumed similarities. But now we must contend with the bias of a false version of ourselves. Yahoo’s murder feed exposes the algorithmic process for what it is: personalization without the person."

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Sarah Kendzior at The Atlantic. The Day Yahoo Decided I Liked Reading About Child Murder

Algorithms are shaping how we see the world around us, with big consequences. What a machine thinks we need to know can become what we fear.

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April 17, 2012
"Having the bills all in one place painted a certain picture. “If it’s voter ID, it’s ALEC,” observed Doug Clopp, deputy director of programs at Common Cause. “If it’s anti-immigration bills written hand-in-glove with private prison corporations, it’s ALEC. If it’s working with the N.R.A. on ‘Shoot to Kill’ laws, it’s ALEC. When you start peeling back state efforts to opt out of the regional greenhouse gas initiative, it’s ALEC.” Adopted first in the states, by the time these laws bubble up to the national level, they’re the conventional wisdom on policy."

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Doug Clopp quoted in an article by Nancy Scola at The Atlantic. Exposing ALEC: How Conservative-Backed State Laws Are All Connected

A shadowy organization uses corporate contributions to sell prepackaged conservative bills — such as Florida’s Stand Your Ground statute — to legislatures across the country. 

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April 9, 2012
World War 3.0

“A conflict with two sides is a picture we’re used to—and although in this case it’s simplistic, it’s a way to get a handle on what the stakes are. But the story of the War for the Internet, as it’s usually told, leaves out the characters who have the best chance to resolve the conflict in a reasonable way. Think of these people as the forces of Organized Chaos. They are more farsighted than the forces of Order and Disorder. They tend to know more about the Internet as both a technical and social artifact. And they are pragmatists. They are like a Resistance group that hopes to influence the battle and to shape a fitful peace.”

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April 2, 2012
"The task at hand is finding some way to square the circle: a way to have both anonymity and authentication—and therefore both generative chaos and the capacity for control—without absolute insistence on either. It is a neat philosophical trick: Sun Tzu meets John Locke meets Adam Smith meets Michel Foucault."

— Michael Joseph Gross at Vanity Fair. World War 3.0

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Filed under: Internet hacking regulation organized chaos 
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