Category Archives: org

How did we end up in this state?

[When the] depression arrived — and what we are experiencing is indeed a depression, although not as bad as the Great Depression — policy failed to rise to the occasion. Yes, the banking system was bailed out. But job-creation efforts … Continue reading

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The Christian Science Monitor publishes results from a report by researchers who are “not talking about those companies”

The marketing professors at Fordham University maintain that the Occupy Movement has the “wrong target”: companies exist because we shop from them, we sustain them, and on some level we want them to be there. More often than not, we … Continue reading

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Alex Jones @ INFOWARS.COM reports that Google plans to shut down the YouTube channel

He reports that Google and YouTube were set up by CIA and NQTel to spy on users, and manipulate the news people receive via these channels: OccupyWebsite News Post Forum

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Why has the information revolution not yet precipitated a social revolution?

To answer this question, it is necessary to separate the information revolution 1.0 from the information revolution 2.0. The way I see it, the First Information Revolution has indeed caused a social revolution… — but it took a very long … Continue reading

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How fast do memes and news spread on so-called social websites and the realtime web?

Here’s a quote that has been spreading lately on twitter.com and facebook.com: The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each … Continue reading

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Communication as a form of social grooming

[Social grooming] is major social activity [that] can bond and reinforce social structures, family links, and build relationships. The wikipedia article cited above documents many positive effects of social grooming — and in my opinion the social contract [to communicate] … Continue reading

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Occupy Trust

Edelman has published a their annual “Edelman Trust Barometer” report (for a quick summary, see also the FIR coverage [near the end of the podcast]) — and this year, they have noted that — amid a loss of trust in … Continue reading

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The Social Contract as Human Information Technology: How Individual Character is Socially Constructed Via Social Interaction

Today I want to introduce a new hypothesis: That the reason we share information with each other is due to an elemental need humans have — to share information about the society they are members of (both within a single … Continue reading

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Occupy German Media

‘Piraten, Wutbürger, Bankenhasser: Protest im Film und auf der Straße‘ Wie Film und Gesellschaft auf die Herausforderungen reagieren. Diskussion anlässlich des ’33. Max-Ophüls-Filmfestivals’ Mitschnitt der Diskussion vom 17. Januar 2012 im Hotel Domicil Leidinger, Saarbrücken Download audio OccupyWebsite News Post … Continue reading

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Occupy Open Space

One of the strengths of the Occupy Movement is that it seems to embrace many aspects of Open Space Technology (such as the “Law of Two Feet”). We’ve set up a tumblr blog to delve deeper into further and additional … Continue reading

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