“Threats & Opportunities for a Faster and Stronger Web” - @albertwenger’s talk from Velocity 2012. Albert lays out a framing for thinking about the value of the open, innovative web, and points out some of the threats that we’re currently facing. Including plugs for the Internet Defense League and /awesome.
(Source: youtube.com)
“ By design, these are sit-ins: Participants illegally occupy the space of their target. And they take personal responsibility for the consequences. ”
Yochai Benkler on Anonymous, Hacks of Valor | Foreign Affairs
“Anonymous demonstrates one of the new core aspects of power in a networked, democratic society: Individuals are vastly more effective and less susceptible to manipulation, control, and suppression by traditional sources of power than they were even a decade ago.”
(via fred-wilson)
“ The kids who grew up inside AOL chat rooms and came of age on Facebook have an intuitive understanding of the power of networks that our generation will never have. They are not asking us to fix the problems we left them with. They are asking us not to get in their way as they try to dig themselves out. I think we owe them that. ”
