Posts Tagged “Occupy Wall Street”

Alternative, geeky, growing Diaspora*

By | October 16, 2011

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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 [...]

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Protesters occupy Wall Street

By | September 30, 2011

Financial District in NY on September 17. Photo by Collin David Anderson (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

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 [...]

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