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One blogger is worth ten votes – Harvard man

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Andrew Orlowski

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14 November 2003

Working in his secret laboratory at Harvard University, a Fellow of the prestigious institution has come up with a formula that rocks electoral maths to its core. Former software developer Dave Winer has worked out that one weblogger is worth ten ordinary voters, and he revealed the results of his complex calculations to Wired this…

Talks

The 1001 Politics of the Archive

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Andrew Orlowski

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14 September 2003

“The implications of Google have real implications for mass social procedure, on how we enquire,. “It’s so much bigger than terrifying – it’s Interesting.” An early look at Googlephilia, for a panel discussion at the Next 5 Minutes festival in Amsterdam, 13 September 2003. … Read More

Interviews, Stories

Chris Anderson makes me a bet

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Andrew Orlowski

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3 May 2003

“Or the arrival of the Web browser, which blew millions of minds, making a mouseclick feel like teleportation.” Chris Anderson, Wired I was really calling the editor of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson, to check up on which weird and interesting drugs he was taking when he wrote the sentence you see above you. [* answer…

Stories

Anti-war slogan coined, repurposed and Googlewashed … in 42 days

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Andrew Orlowski

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3 April 2003

This year marks the 100th anniversary of George Orwell’s birth, and the writer who best explained the power of language on politics would be amazed what can be done with the Internet. On February 17 [2003] a front page news analysis in the New York Times bylined by Patrick Tyler described the global anti-war protests…

Stories

“This MS Antitrust story was created by a computer program”

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Andrew Orlowski

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8 November 2002

Google’s News service is remarkable: and the most astonishing thing about it is that it is generated automatically. ” The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program,” says a note at the foot of each page. But why stop there? Why not use Perl scripts to generate…

Stories

Physics hoaxers discover Quantum Bogosity?

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Andrew Orlowski

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1 November 2002

The physics establishment appears to be unable to decide whether papers submitted by two former French TV presenters are a scientific breakthrough or an elaborate hoax. The debunking to date has been done on Usenet groups and informally, over the Internet. The pranksters evaded the rigorous peer review process employed by scientific journals, and have…