Alejandro@Oxford

These are my links for February 17th through February 19th:

Fed Offers Bleak Economic Outlook for 2009 – NYTimes.com –
FOX News Anchor Megyn Kelly Rips PETA Spokeswoman For Sexy Ads (VIDEO) –
Cops Probe Video Of Officer Aggressively Removing Bus Passenger (WATCH) –
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EurActiv.com – [...]

illini1022 writes “I’m currently a senior nearing graduation from college. With studies focusing on power and energy I believe I have set myself up extremely well for post-graduation employment. I have one concern. The top search result on Google for my full name is a blog posting regarding an article about a pedophile that happens [...]

This week I am updating my webtools a bit. For some time I’ve had a twitter and a delicious account, but I didn’t use them at all. Now, I am restarting again, and I must say they are quite powerful, particularly all together with my blog.

I’ve just read an article on the New York Times by Nelson D. Schwartz about job losses and unrest in the world (the same article with minor modifications can be read on the International Herald Tribune website).
Though it is difficult to link joblessness with unrest or revolution, it is logical to think that the rapid [...]

Today, I’d like to make two short notes with references to two different articles I found interesting.
The first is a long essay written by Tony Curzon Price on opendemocracy.net under the title “The Liberty of the Networked“. The author says that
[t]his long essay, to be published in parts, tries to make sense of the libero-genic [...]

Today walking on the street I saw a future. I saw how our online identities, carefully crafted after many years of social interaction and personal data input jumped into our physical lives. I saw how our reputation online will be used as a way of gauging the trustworthiness of a person to give her a [...]

What motivates us to copy music, software, audiobooks, ebooks…on the Internet? There are two dimensions here: the provider (or seeder) and the person who downloads the stuff (or leecher). What motivates a person to seed in the first place? Good will? Reputation? Idealism for a non-capitalist society? Cyberanarchism? And what motivates a person to leech? [...]

Today’s IHT has an interesting article on how bankers’ fell from being admired to being scorned.
It directly relates to my previous posts:
Resentment
“Greed is right, greed works”: Wall Street Revisited
The end of the greed era gives way to the beginning of the green era
Where I basically says that the era of the bankers is gone, scorn [...]

This post is the counterpoint to my previous one, The Impermanence of the Internet. In it I was saying that the problems troubling Wikipedia made me think about the fragility of the Internet. But I must introduce an opposite view, for though it is true that companies, organizations and people can stop doing something, thus [...]

In today’s The Independent (the UK newspaper), there is an unsigned article on the problems threatening Wikipedia existence.
eight years on,  Wikipedia is plagued by endless hoaxes, riven by boardroom rebellion – and lurches from one cash crisis to another.
Though its author(s) is (are) probably exaggerating the consequences Wikipedia’s troubles, it does have a point regarding [...]