Tahrir Project: Decentralized Anonymous Twitter

The Tahrir Project Tahrir will be decentralized anonymous Twitter, from the crazy fool that brought you Freenet. It is early days but I’m making rapid progress. Tahrir aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous “workalike” for Twitter. Overview Architecture Frequently Asked Questions Autonomous Internet Google Group Comment: Not sure what it solves what …

Review: Reality Is Broken–Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

Jane McGonigal 6 Star for Concept–Ignores Past Pioneers–Energizes Us All February 28, 2011 I took the time to read all of the reviews to date, and was reminded again of the chasm between those who understand technology and its possibilities, and those who do not. Being among the latter, in part because I am a …

NIGHTWATCH Essay: Youth, Democracy, & the West

NightWatch Essay: Some time ago, David Goldman, purporting to channel Oswald Spengler for Asia Times Online, wrote a farsighted essay [And Spengler is…] that anticipated, predicted and warned that modern impulses in the youth of the Middle East would rise up against conservative institutions to assert a modern definition of being Arab, Berber, Turk, Persian …

Worth a Look: Program on Liberation Technology

http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu http://twitter.com/Liberationtech Lying at the intersection of social science, computer science, and engineering, the Program on Liberation Technology seeks to understand how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods. See Also: Autonomous Internet (36)

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