prosthetic knowledge

Online Twitter Visualizer Spot and the Search Term ‘wtf wikipedia’

Spot is a simple browser-based Twitter visualizer that can group ‘particles’ on a particular keyword.

With the entry ‘wtf wikipedia’, you can see a collection of tweets featuring teenagers complaining of Wikipedia’s black-out due to their homework needs …

More about Spot here
To see a collection of misguided tweets related to Wikipedia and homework can be seen here.

Digital Media Tree’s Creative SOPA Blackout Page

Move the mouse around as a virtual flashlight in a dark blacked-out space.

http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/

GIF created by Lorna Mills [G+ Link]

UPDATE - Digital Media Tree didn’t create this - there is a webpage template designed for others to implement onto their site and it is by zachstronaut. The code can be found at GitHub [via BoingBoing]

guardian:

Websites black out in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

Follow the latest developments and reaction to the great internet blackout. Wondering what SOPA is? Here’s an explainer.

Stop SOPA Blackout

F.A.T. project has produced a piece of embeddable code inside your Tumblr blog theme that ‘censors’ the content on it:

The SOPA (“Stop Online Piracy Act”) is a terrible piece of legislation that gives broad powers for the courts to take down sites by claims from “infringed” users. If SOPA passes as-is, it could devastate the artistic expression and livelihood of many artists, hackers, and entrepreneurs.

Protest the SOPA bill and install the blackout code on your site to let your visitors know what they could miss out if SOPA does pass.

More info and code can be found here

Important notice to all internet users in the United States, as this bill could ruin everything you love about the technology:

guardian:

newsweek:

shortformblog:

Tumblr just put up this site warning people about the dangers of PROTECT-IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Read up, kids. This is important.

Your morning homework: Read this letter from AOL, eBay, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Twitter, Yahoo!, & Zynga. Then visit Tumblr’s page and take action.

Some more links which might be useful:

• Avaaz launched an online petition yesterday - at 67k signatures and counting. They need 100k+ to get it in front of congress
• Site organising a censorship protest here 
• Electronic Frontier Foundation also campaigning