• Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • News
  • Events
  • Media
  • Video
  • Glossary
  • Contact
  • Download
  • RSS

censorship

FOI Topics and Links of the Week

February 16th, 2010  |  by elisabeth  |  published in Web 2.0 platforms, censorship, iphone  |  Comments Off

AppMakr Transforms App Store Landscape, Enables Anyone To Make Their Own iPhone App. Gagan Biyani raves about AppMakr, a product that allows anyone to make a simple RSS-based iPhone app for $199. The company will even submit the app to the App Store. (So, for instance, Biyani put together an app that aggregates [...]

FOI Topics and Links of the Week

January 27th, 2010  |  by elisabeth  |  published in Future of the Internet, Generativity, censorship, iphone, kindle, ubicomp  |  3 Comments

The Extraordinaries Haiti Earthquake Support Center. A followup post on the Extraordinaries’ efforts to use ubiquitous human computing to help find missing people after the Haiti earthquake — a positive vision inspired by JZ’s nightmare scenario of crowdsourced secret police work. Did they succeed? “Yes and no”—but, as they detail, there’s obvious potential [...]

The sentence the UN doesn’t want you to see

November 15th, 2009  |  by jz  |  published in censorship, filtering  |  4 Comments

“The first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China’s famous ‘Great Firewall of China’ is one of the first national Internet filtering systems.”
That’s it.  Its presence on a poster advertising the OpenNet Initiative’s academic book Access Controlled was enough to deem it prohibited by UN security forces at [...]

RSS Tweets from Z

  • Who controls the historical record in the digital age? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kpur7yJ7EE
  • This week's roundup of news relating to Future of the Internet topics: http://bit.ly/9qRwjf
  • An amazingly generative 2-player adventure game - http://bit.ly/ayjdZ7 (introductory slideshow)
  • Shame: Edit (not author!) a book review for an academic journal, stand trial for criminal libel in France. http://bit.ly/aKqlWA (PDF)

Blog Archives



Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Jonathan Zittrain unless otherwise noted.
Powered by WordPress using Gridline Lite.