Wednesday, November 16, 2011
TACTICAL BRIEFING #18 | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
TACTICAL BRIEFING #18 | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
Hey you creatives, artists, environmentalists, workers, moms, dads, students, malcontents, do-gooders and aspiring martyrs in the snow:
The last four months have been hard fought, inspiring and delightfully revolutionary. We brought tents, hunkered down, held our assemblies, and lobbed a meme-bomb that continues to explode the world's imagination. Many of us have never felt so alive. We have fertilized the future with our revolutionary spirit … and a thousand flowers will surely bloom in the coming Spring.
But as winter approaches an ominous mood could set in … hope thwarted is in danger of turning sour, patience exhausted becoming anger, militant nonviolence losing its allure. It isn't just the mainstream media that says things could get ugly. What shall we do to keep the magic alive?
Here are a couple of emerging ideas: See Full Post Here | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
Facebook tracking is under scrutiny – USATODAY.com
Facebook tracking is under scrutiny – USATODAY.com
To do this, the company relies on tracking cookie technologies similar to the controversial systems used by Google, Adobe, Microsoft, Yahoo and others in the online advertising industry, says Arturo Bejar, Facebook's engineering director.
Facebook's efforts to track the browsing habits of visitors to its site have made the company a player in the "Do Not Track" debate, which focuses on whether consumers should be able to prevent websites from tracking the consumers' online activity.
For online business and social media sites, such information can be particularly valuable in helping them tailor online ads to specific visitors. But privacy advocates worry about how else the information might be used, and whether it might be sold to third parties.
New guidelines for online privacy are being hashed out in Congress and by the World Wide Web Consortium, which sets standards for the Internet.
If privacy advocates get their way, consumers soon could be empowered to stop or limit tech companies and ad networks from tracking them wherever they go online. But the online advertising industry has dug in its heels, trying to retain the current self-regulatory system. Full Article Here | USATODAY.com
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Co-Founder of Social Network, Dies at 22 - NYTimes.com
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Co-Founder of Social Network, Dies at 22 - NYTimes.com
The San Francisco police, in confirming his death, did not give the cause. Friends and associates of Mr. Zhitomirskiy said there were indications of suicide.
Mr. Zhitomirskiy was a student at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 2010 when he and three fellow undergraduates conceived the idea for a Web-based community that would give users, rather than the Web site itself, control of the information they shared.
Instead of creating a central database like Facebook’s, where information about hundreds of millions of members is stored and mined for advertising and marketing purposes, their idea was to develop freely shared software that would allow every member of the network to “own” his or her personal information.
Mr. Zhitomirskiy, an impish self-styled radical, unicyclist and competitive ballroom dancer, was a member of the nascent liberation technology movement, which views the conglomeration of personal information by large corporate and government bodies as a threat to civil liberties and human rights.
Urban Wilderness: Open letter to County Board regarding the budget
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Well said Eddee! Remove the Dam--Free the River, Save Millions in maintenance/repair fees, Fix a restroom so I can actually spend more time in a county park!
Protesters Occupy U.S. Chamber of Commerce In Longest, Awkwardest Interruption Ever | Mediaite
Protesters Occupy U.S. Chamber of Commerce In Longest, Awkwardest Interruption Ever | Mediaite
Whether you view this as a heroic attempt to speak truth to power or nothing but a silly stunt on par with the Rupert Murdoch/pie incident, there’s something hilarious with just how long it goes. I mean, seriously, this thing just keeps going. Serota’s face above really says it all.
Watch the clip from C-SPAN below. I suggest watching it twice. Once for the message, and the second time to watch everyone else at the luncheon awkwardly attempting to eat their food as this damn thing refuses to end. More Info Here | Mediaite
The Ongoing Struggle for Black Community Self-Reliance
Decolonize the Hood, MKE / Descolonizar el Barrio, MKE
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Chairman Omali Yeshitela speaks at "Beyond the 60's: Supporting the Ongoing Struggle for Black Community Self-Reliance in 2011," an Uhuru Solidarity Movement...
Robin Vos Gets Mic Checked at Pro Walker Rally
Shit Scott Walker Is Doing To My State
Last night Robin Vos and Vicki Mckenna had a rally against the Recall.Thanks to the Autonomous Solidarity Organization
Robin Vos got a big ol Mic Check, and apparently Vicki Mckenna hugs when she gets worked up...
Watch and share,
Last night Robin Vos and Vicki Mckenna had a rally against the Recall.Thanks to the Autonomous Solidarity Organization
Robin Vos got a big ol Mic Check, and apparently Vicki Mckenna hugs when she gets worked up...
Watch and share,
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The Dane County Young Republicans threw a "Recall the Recall" rally on the opening night of the Scott Walker recall in Wisconsin on 11-15-11. The ASO http://...
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