Archive For The “Web” Category
This is just something I came across on Diaspora, the social media network. When I was in still in school, the internet was just coming about. Now it’s everywhere.
- Leave your comment • Web • World
- Tagged as: #occupywallstreet • Diaspora • freedom • Internet • pro-democracy • socia • social network
What does the Internet mean for the kids who have grown up with it? Why the struggles for democracy are so intertwined with the fight for internet freedom? Slow-news-day.net would like to present a piece, which attempts to explain what and why. The original essay is called My, dzieci sieci and it’s written by Piotr Czerski, a Polish poet [...]
- Leave your comment • Culture • Web
- Tagged as: freedom • freedom of speech • Internet • Piotr Czerski • pro-democracy • web 2.0
Remember the Danish caricatures of Prophet Mohammed and all the commotion they stirred? It started in the Fall of 2005. In Finland there was a little side episode in connection to the caricatures. The Finnish Government, headed by prime minister Matti Vanhanen, apologised to the Islamic world for the caricatures published by the Danish newspaper [...]
- Leave your comment • Culture • Politics • Web • World
- Tagged as: art • caricature • cartoonist • comic • Denmark • Finland • Finns (party) • freedom of artistic expression • freedom of speech • Islam • Jussi Vilkuna • Jyllands-Posten • Kaltio • Matti Vanhanen • Mohammed • True Finns • Ville Ranta
Have you heard about the new social network called Diaspora* but still not quite certain how it differs from Facebook? Check out this nice and informative video by Craig Antweiler (http://craig-antweiler.com): And still, if you’re not up to watching the video, this is the gist: Diaspora* is a non-profit, user-owned, distributed social network. Diaspora mission: [...]
- Leave your comment • Web
- Tagged as: Diaspora • Facebook • privacy • social media • social network • stop-motion • YouTube
Facebook and Twitter are still the mainstream of social networking. Diaspora is the independent alternative gathering pace. I have used Diaspora actively for couple of weeks now, and I’m quite excited about it. Diaspora combines neatly the best half of basic functions from both Facebook and Twitter. Google+ has in turn borrowed quite a lot [...]
- Comments Off • Culture • Recommended • Web
- Tagged as: #occupywallstreet • Diaspora • Facebook • Google+ • Occupy Wall Street • open source • social media • social network • Twitter
Diaspora core developer team’s recent email plea for donations has been getting bad response. Diaspora raised about $200 000 through Kickstarter a little over a year ago. Some people seem to think it’s just a scam that they are looking for some more money.
- Comments Off • Opinion • Web • World
- Tagged as: Diaspora • Kickstarter • salary • social media • social network
Anti-capitalist protesters have been demonstrating at Wall Street already for 13 days. The group of protesters gathered on September 17. “Occupy Wall Street” protests were inspired by the Arab Spring, particularly the protests in Cairo. Slow-news-day.net hasn’t found out any clear estimates on the number of protesters from the internet sources, but it would seem [...]
- Leave your comment • Politics • Web • World
- Tagged as: #occupywallstreet • Arab Spring • demonstration • New York • Occupy Wall Street • pepper-spray • protest
Life Before the Dinosaurs is a blog by Art, who’s seven years old. Art dictates the heavy paleontology stuff to his mom, who does the tedious work of typing.
- 1 comment • Nature • Recommended • Web
- Tagged as: arthropods • Early Paleozoic • paleoblog • paleontology • Precambrian
There’s a new predator swimming in the waters of online music streaming, named Grooveshark. Similar to Pandora service offered in the US and Spotify that is only available in some European countries, Grooveshark is available around the world. The service launched in 2007 but after several development versions it began to grow rapidly during the [...]
- 1 comment • Music • Web
- Tagged as: Grooveshark • online music streaming • Pandora • rich internet application • Spotify
Finnish web store selling army gear has put out a funny item, a Nazi Card. And now they’re temporarily out of them. Hilarious.
- Leave your comment • Politics • Web
- Tagged as: Adolf Hitler • argumentation • eugenics • Godwin's law • National Socialists • nationalism • Nazi Card • Nazis
