Author: Ryan Sholin
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My day at the3six5
Late last fall, when Daniel Honigman and Len Kendall were running around online talking about the3six5, a sort of social media experiment where a different person would write a post each day of the year 2010, I was interested. I claimed a day, choosing August 9, with the aim of taking a shot at the…
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Clay Shirky: ‘Paywall will underperform – the numbers don’t add up’
The internet guru on the death of newspapers, why paywall will fail and how the internet has brought out our creativity – and generosity
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Five ways you can keep supporting USA soccer
Congratulations to the millions of American sports fans who started paying attention to the United States men’s soccer team over the last few weeks at the World Cup! No, really, I’m not being sarcastic this time — you’ve been awesome. Tweeting about the team’s chances, the watershed draw against England, the stunning way they won…
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WikiLeaks and Tor: Moral use of an amoral system?
Reading the New Yorker’s piece on WikiLeaks, it’s hard to decide whether I’m reading about freedom fighters, skilled propagandists, or as is often the case, both. Without looking too deeply, although I have serious reservations about their editorial decisions from time to time, I believe in what WikiLeaks is trying to do, and I have since…
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WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange
Reading the New Yorker’s piece on WikiLeaks, it’s hard to decide whether I’m reading about freedom fighters, skilled propagandists, or as is often the case, both. Without looking too deeply, I believe in what WikiLeaks is trying to do, but I’m profoundly worried to see here, for example, Tor server traffic mined for data. That’s…
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The Pacification of Rio’s Favelas
This is a great roundup of stories and videos on what’s going on inside the worst neighborhoods in Rio. (As always, I wonder out loud why I haven’t seen any of these stories in the mainstream media, but of course it’s naive of me to assume there is still such a thing as a mainstream.…