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Morozov (via Catherine) The age of the WikiLeaks-style vigilante geek is over | Morozov (via Catherine) The age of the WikiLeaks-style vigilante geek is over | ||
*http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/07/age-wikileaks-style-vigilante-geek-over | *http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/07/age-wikileaks-style-vigilante-geek-over | ||
− | *In this respect, WikiLeaks (at least in its current incarnation) embodies an ideology that can only be called anti-web 2.0: they value professionals over | + | *In this respect, WikiLeaks (at least in its current incarnation) embodies an ideology that can only be called anti-web 2.0: they value professionals over amateurs and explicitly reject the "anyone can edit" ethos of Wikipedia, believing that waiting for this mystical "anyone" is like waiting for Godot. |
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− | amateurs and explicitly reject the "anyone can edit" ethos of Wikipedia, believing that waiting for this mystical "anyone" is like waiting for Godot. | + | |
Wagner James Au | Wagner James Au | ||
− | The great thing about SL is you meet an insanely diverse amount of people in there. Which is how I got this first-hand report from the streets of Cairo from | + | The great thing about SL is you meet an insanely diverse amount of people in there. Which is how I got this first-hand report from the streets of Cairo from an Egyptian artist into Nubian hiphop steampunk in Second Life. |
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− | an Egyptian artist into Nubian hiphop steampunk in Second Life. | + | |
*http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/02/egyptian-steampunk-on-anti-mubarak-uprising.html | *http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/02/egyptian-steampunk-on-anti-mubarak-uprising.html | ||