other turning stones and milepoints
Joshua Holland at Gadflyer reminds us that prior to the killing of Zarqawi there were a few other turning points/milestones in the GWOT/GSAE/Long War. It is important to catapult the propaganda.
Paul Marks at New Scientist writes that the Pentagon is harvesting the data that people post about themselves on sites such as My Space:
New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon’s National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology – specifically the forthcoming “semantic web” championed by the web standards organisation W3C – to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.
Via Avedon at The Sideshow, the BBC reports: Defeat for net neutrality backers.
A milestone of the more useful and progressive type… seems the good minds at MIT Media Lab have come up with something called “Open Studio” which they call an “experiment in creativity, collaboration and capitalism”. Check it out. (Via Unbeige)
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