Tag: hive mind
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The Hive Mind has spoken: ‘I need help!’
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Andrew Orlowski
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Bloggers blog for therapy – Official Half of American webloggers cite self-help as their primary motivation for maintaining their online diaries, a survey has discovered. 48.7 per cent of the sample say that blogging “serves as therapy”, and it’s the most popular reason for publishing an online journal. The second most popular reason, to stay…
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SCO, Groklaw and the Monterey mystery that never was
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Andrew Orlowski
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Over the past two years, the influential web site Groklaw has become a focal point for open source advocates discussing The SCO Group’s litigation against Linux companies. The community of knowledgeable experts has helped with clarifying contract technicalities, dug through news archives, and filed on-the-spot reports from the Utah the courtroom, much to SCO’s discomfort.…
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Does US politics need a Nerd Party?
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Andrew Orlowski
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A newspaper columnist has called for the old-fashioned, “left wing” Democratic Party to be replaced by a new, emergent party of computer nerds. Dan Gillmor of Silicon Valley’s San Jose Mercury urges the Democrats to abandon “old, discredited politics”, while an “increasingly radical middle” needs a new party with some “creative thinking”. From where will…
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Anti-war slogan coined, repurposed and Googlewashed … in 42 days
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Andrew Orlowski
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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…