F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"

If I get hit by a truck... ...please read this web page digital signature for this page There's an old joke among programmers about who will maintain the code when its author gets hit by a truck. This page is here so that if for some reason I'm no longer able to keep my web services running, people will know what to do. I designate Sean B. I ask that the contents of all my hard drives be made publicly available from aaronsw.com. web.resource.org Sean (or someone he designates) should become the new curator/webmaster. Source Code Copyright for my GPLed source code should revert to the Free Software Foundation. Websites Please keep the websites operational where possible, with content written by me kept untouched where appropriate. Grave I'd like to rest someplace that won't kill me. For other stuff, email Sean. If something does happen to me, please update the footer of this page with a link. Oh, and BTW, I'll miss you all. [based on ESR's page]

Barry Lando: Mali -- A Double Tale of Unintended Consequences With hundreds of French troops in Mali and hundreds more headed that way, the U.S., among other countries, has also pledged some limited support: intelligence, communication, logistics, unarmed drones. But Washington obviously would like to keep a low profile. The U.S. in fact, had been militating against just such a move, fearing that another Western intervention in an Arab land would provide another ideal recruiting target for erstwhile jihadis across the Muslim world, not to mention provoking a spate of terrorist attacks in Europe. In fact, though, it turns out that the U.S. has already played a disastrous role in the crisis. According to an excellent New York Times account, for the past several years the United States has spent more than half a billion dollars in West Africa to counter the threat of radical Islam, America's "most ambitious counterterrorism program ever across these vast, turbulent stretches of the Sahara." To that end, for five years U.S. Why?

Prosecutor as bully | LESSIG Blog, v2 Aaron Swartz: howtoget Talk, as prepared, for the Tathva 2007 computer conference at NIT Calicut. (Additional notes.) Translations: 日本語 The American writer Kurt Vonnegut used to always title his talks "How to Get a Job Like Mine" and then proceed to talk about whatever he felt like. So how did I get a job like mine? But, on the other hand, when I started I was a very young kid stuck in a small town in the middle of the country. Step 1: Learn The first thing I did, which presumably all of you have already got covered, was to learn about computers, the Internet, and Internet culture. Step 2: Try The first site I built was called get.info. The second site I built was called my.info. Step 3: Gab It was summer and I was out of school and didn't have a job, so I had a lot of free time on my hands. First I asked the working group members if I could join. I was also a true believer on the subject of RDF, so I worked hard to get other people to adopt it. Step 4: Build And then I left it all and went to college for a year.

France Mali Ground Assault And 'Direct Combat' To Be Launched Within Hours BAMAKO, Mali — French soldiers pressed north in Mali territory occupied by radical Islamists on Wednesday, launching a land assault that was to put them in direct combat with al-Qaida-linked fighters "in one to 72 hours," military officials said. Their presumed destination was the town of Diabaly, where fleeing residents said Islamist extremists had taken over their homes and were preventing other people from leaving. They said the militants were melting into the population and moving only in small groups on streets in the mud-walled neighborhoods to avoid being targeted by the French. "They have beards. In apparent retaliation for the French offensive, the same group controlling northern Mali occupied a natural gas complex in neighboring Algeria, taking dozens of people hostage, including Americans. French ground operations in Mali began overnight, France's military chief of staff, Adm. "I confirm that France came in by land, but they failed. ... Col. Last December, the U.N.

on information privilege. – info-mational The concept of information privilege situates information literacy in a sociocultural context of justice and access. Information as the media and messages that underlie individual and collective awareness and knowledge building; privilege as the advantages, opportunities, rights, and affordances granted by status and positionality via class, race, gender, culture, sexuality, occupation, institutional affiliation, and political perspective. In an extended period of relative disengagement with writing I have started and stopped and restarted this post so many times that it’s become a bit ridiculous, but based on the interest generated by discussions of information privilege in my teaching and speaking contexts it’s clearly time to finish. information privilege in practice Any type of information worker can examine this phenomenon and develop strategies to counter it. information privilege as pedagogy scaling the paywall “Why in the world does it cost so much?” “It doesn’t make sense!”

En hommage à Aaron Swartz Une vague d’émotion sans précédente s’est emparée du Web (que j’ai l’habitude de lire) après la récente tragique disparition d’Aaron Swartz à l’âge de 26 ans. Il faut dire qu’il en avait fait des choses en une pourtant si courte période ! Nous avons décidé de lui rendre hommage en traduisant collectivement l’un des articles de son blog où il évoque son parcours et ses nombreux projets. Cet article a été initialement écrit en 2007. Aaron avait alors à peine 20 ans… Comment dégoter un boulot comme le mien How to Get a Job Like Mine Aaron Swartz - 18 août 2008 - Blog personnel(Traduction : ga3lig, clementd, Amic, tth, bld, KoS, Havok Novak, a_r_n_a_u_d_b, jpcw + anonymous) L’écrivain américain Kurt Vonnegut avait l’habitude de toujours nommer ses interventions « Comment obtenir un travail comme le mien » pour parler ensuite de ce que bon lui semblait. Comment ai-je réussi à dégotter ce job ? Étape 1 : apprendre Étape 2 : expérimenter Le premier site que j’ai réalisé s’appelait get.info.

Gun Advocates Resort To Lies About Hitler To Push Their Agenda How bad is your argument when you have to lie about Hitler to try and make your case? Right-Wing claims of Nazi weapon roundups don’t hold up to scrutiny. Internet Arguments, Usenet, And Hitler. There is an old law on the internet. It was coined by Mike Godwin in 1990: In short, in a heated argument, eventually someone will bring up the Nazi’s, Hitler, etc, and the moment they do, the argument is over because the side that does it has just lost it. Absolutely nothing. Right-Wing Pundits Go For Broke In Claiming Obama Is Like Hitler. So, it was amusing when the Drudge Report posted this headline earlier this week: You know who else got a splash on the Drudge Report? Note the not-so-subtle attempt to compare firearm regulation with Nazi Germany and Joseph Stalin. This year will go down in history! Reality Problem For The Radicals. This is of course complete bunk. Why was Hitler comfortable doing this, when all common wisdom is that dictators eliminate gun ownership?