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Get 'Webducated': Ditching School Forever To Become A Generation of Internet Scholars
The rising cost and declining value of higher education in the United States has undoubtedly been one of the key grievances of upstart social justice movements like Occupy Wall Street. And the anger is beginning to boil over -- just look at the...
2011 Was the Year of Anonymous
After their "visible hesitance":http://www.breakingcopy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/time_mag_covers_dec_5_2011.jpg to prominently cover various popular uprisings around the world, it seemed almost as if in compensation that TIME Magazine chose to...
Hacking Is Occupying Is Hacking
The hacks of #Occupy are more than just a protest - they're changing the art of protest.
The Gadgets of #Occupy
The raid on the Occupy stronghold of Zucotti Park left "laptops smashed":http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/18/who-smashed-the-laptops-from-occupy-wall-street-inside-the-nypd-s-lost-and-found and "wifi towers":http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/21/occupy-s...
Cybering For A Peer-to-Peer Consumer Society
Were it not for the fact that Cyber Monday takes place online, and that it enables businesses of all sizes to make some bank on America's annual consumer binge ritual, it would probably be just another addendum to the depraved human behavior inspired...
In the Net Censorship Copyfight, Lessig Strikes At The Root
For creative professionals who depend on the internet to make their living, the internet blacklist bills being forced through Congress right now are bad news. If passed, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and its Senate doppelganger the PROTECT-IP Act will...
Memo to the Banking Industry: How to Kill Occupy Wall Street For $850,000
The "response":http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/11/18/who-smashed-the-laptops-from-occupy-wall-street-inside-the-nypd-s-lost-and-found by mayors and police forces to the Occupy movement has underlined the strength of the demonstration, but now there's...
Occupy's Internet Tower Will Live On, For Now
Despite turning up empty handed on a first pass through heaps of personal belongings confiscated last week from Occupy Wall Street’s epicenter at Zuccotti Park, Isaac Wilder returned this past Friday to a reclamation booth at a Department of Sanitation...
Who Smashed the Laptops from Occupy Wall Street? Inside the NYPD's Lost and Found
If you’re looking to recover any personal effects swept up early Tuesday morning in the NYPD raid on Zuccotti Park, epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street movement, there’s only one place that may have what you’re looking for. Only it doesn’t have a...
Watch The OWS Live Feed, The Greatest TV Show Ever
If you haven't had your eyeballs glued to Tim Pool's live feed of the Occupy Wall Street protests over the last 48 hours or so, you've been blowing it. Since the forced eviction of Zuccotti Park at around 1 AM Tuesday morning, Tim has been blasting...
The Rally for Sanity: What "Occupation" Looked Like A Year Ago
Nearly two years after attending the ebullient hope fest of the Inauguration, I returned to the National Mall with some colleagues to take a reading on where that hope had gone in the intervening time. A goofy retort to Glenn Beck's ""Restoring Honor...
How To Break The Banks With Heavy Junk Mail In Three Easy Steps
The media blitz which followed the "police raids":http://boingboing.net/2011/10/26/police-raid-on-occupy-oakland-the-morning-after.html at Occupy Oakland served as a kind of _memento mori_ to the corporate powers-that-be. In some sense, it was the...