Here´s the new right wing tool, the Conservapedia. Conservapedia is made of using the Wikipedia brand association for the exact opposite of Wikipedia namely to promote unbalanced views on topics. Conservapedia is the conservatives view of the world. Here´s homosexuality for example according to the Conservapedia and according to the Wikipedia. You will see what I mean.

At this performance at Google Zeitgeist Europe, a rapper tells us about what he would like to get out of technology.

After the success of the Techtalk at my farm Torrenova this year in Menorca I was wondering how we could grow the event to a larger size this year and Jan Karel of Fon in the Netherlands referred me to the Hotelmovil.

In this video my son Tom explains Metal Gear Solid on his PSP. What I found interesting is that finding WiFi signals gets you soldiers.

During a dinner at TechTalk Loic started with a joke directed to the heavier techies at the table called “the Fatera”. The idea was to propose that Fon, who already makes the social router known as the Fonera, builds a social scale called the fatera that tells your friends over wifi connecting to the fonera, how your weight is evolving. How would this fatera work?

Today my friend Jonathan Zittrain gave a great talk that I moderated at IE that was called “The Future of the Internet and how to avoid it”. Here´s a video of a similar talk he gave at Oxford in what seems a much more elegant setting. Jonathan´s lecture was brilliant: the first half was a brief history of the internet, the second half a brief history of what went wrong with the internet. His point is that we need to fight back internet vandalism (virus makers, spammers and the like) before the internet closes up. While I did not agree with Jonatahan as to the extent of the danger, I agreed with him that censors love opportunity to censor and that there´s clearly some risk. Now call me a one track mind but this the one story that stayed with me of all the ones that Jonathan used to illustrate how “evil” people are compromising the openness of the internet. It is the one of how bot builders put horny humans to work for them. Pretty clever.
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Today I received an invite that is certainly funnier than mine to Menorca. To see it: Username, enter, password, thelobby.
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