Was reading Fred Wilson’s blog on Twitter and started scrolling through the comments. It was pretty interesting to see people’s reactions to the video he posted and their thoughts on Twitter in general.
I have been called the “oldest man in social media” by some of my Stocktwits friends. Quite frankly, I am almost fifty but looking at the revolution I am witnessing in media I feel eighteen. Old media is going to be disintermediated and you can see the panic in their eyes. They know it, the market is starting to realize it and while the sharks aren’t swimming in circles yet, there is enough blood in the water for them to know sooner or later they will feast on some old whale carcasses.
In my home, we usually are pretty early adopters of certain technological things. We had iPods before anyone we knew. My kids had cell phones. They have 2.5 years in age difference, and when they were in high school we noticed there was already a generational gap in communication. With the older it was possible to call or text her. With the younger, only text.
I’m going to get a screen shot of it and prove that they deleted it off the record.31 minutes ago
Whoa. I just looked at it and the fuckers deleted it. Hopefully you all saw it before they censored it out .35 minutes ago
Everyone who follows me needs to read what is said at 7:27 in my previous tweet.36 minutes ago
7:27pm – The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting a notification of the national eme http://bit.ly/HFloor37 minutes ago
“If you all don’t pass this legislation creating our Super Congress, we’ll have martial law, stocks will go down 3000 points…“about 1 hour ago via web in reply to Danummac
Where’s everyone’s favorite Ron Paul at, warning us of this shit? That’s right, he’s a puppet too. EVERYONE in DC is a fucking puppet. about 1 hour ago
***** I’d say the 20,000 are already here. Military vehicles are already here in Lakewood at the Federal Center proves that.about 1 hour ago
*******@******Are they pulling the same martial law crap they did to scare the house into passing TARP? Or is this false flag prep? about 2 hours ago via web in reply to ScottGrovesNC
Another freaking emergency. Can you all see the writing on the wall yet???????????????? Do you even know what I’m talking about???????? about 2 hours ago
…to be printed (H. Doc. 112-46).”about 2 hours agovia webRetweeted by you and 2 others
…security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States – referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered…about 2 hours ago
…respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat that significant transnational criminal organizations pose to the national…about 2 hours ago
7:27 pm – “The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting a notification of the national emergency with…about 2 hours ago
About this talk :
As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.
About Eli Pariser
Pioneering online organizer Eli Pariser is the author of “The Filter Bubble,” about how personalized search might be narrowing our worldview.
Full biography :
http://www.ted.com/speakers/eli_pariser.html
“When confronted with a list of results from Google, the average user (including myself until I read this article) tends to assume that the list is exhaustive. Not knowing that it isn’t … is equivalent to not having a choice. Depending on the quality of the search results, it can be said that I am being fed junk — because I don’t know I have other choices that Google filtered out.”
Aubrey Pek, commenting on Kim Zetter’s “Junk Food Algorithms”: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/eli-pariser-at-ted
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – After a much-heralded End of the World failed to materialize on the appointed day, May 21, Almighty God held a rare press conference in New York to discuss the matter.
Dressed in His trademark flowing white robe and carrying a thunderbolt, God seemed visibly irked by the predictions calling for the world to end this Saturday.
“I’ll end the world when I’m good and ready, Me damn it,” He snapped in response to a question from a USA Today reporter.
When asked if He had a message for the faithful who had expected the world to end today, the Almighty cracked, “They should be grateful for the eleven years they’ve had since the world ended on Y2K.”
God was cagey about setting an exact date for the end of the world, saying only, “When I decide to end the world I’ll let you know the way I always do – on Twitter.”
After the press conference, a publicist for God confirmed that the Heavenly Father was annoyed at having to talk to reporters to address the end of the world rumors: “Honestly, I haven’t seen Him this pissed since Pat Robertson blamed a tsunami on the gays.”
Elsewhere, Harold Camping, the preacher who predicted that the world would end on May 21, issued the following brief statement: “”The world doesn’t end this week. Oprah does. My bad, sry.”
On May 4th- 6th, 2011 there will be a gathering from all across the World to seek the TRUTH about Wall Street and to demand Justice for ” We the People “.
It is the 1 year anniversary of the Flash Crash and still no answers to what caused it, not to mention on May 4th, 2010 Goldman Sachs was fined for having Counterfeited Stocks 385 times in a 2 month period ( Dec 2008 & Jan 2009 ) jut days after Bernie Madoff was arrested and all over TV for his Ponzi scheme. Imagine the brass balls by Goldman Sachs to continue on with their Naked Short Selling ( counterfeit ) of stocks on Wall Street. They never delivered the shares. In thin air, fake, fraud.
We ask that you come for this 3 day event in NYC at theGoldman Sachs building to have our voices heard and demand that these criminals who have destroyed the financial system, be put in Jail!
Below, a press release from AOL and The Huffington Post:
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If you hate the idea of social networking and have never been on Facebook, then Facebook knows nothing about you. Correct? So how come when you set up a profile on the social network for the first time, it can suggest friends for you?
That was what someone who contacted me over the weekend wanted to know.
He described himself as a 30 year veteran of the IT industry who had always been deeply sceptical about social networking. But as an experiment he had set up Facebook profiles, first for himself and then, with permission, for a friend who had also never been near the network.
“The self proclaimed hacker that waged a DDoS attack on Wikileaks has been arrested and has had all his equipment seized. What is interesting is that local police conducted the raid and not a federal authority such as the FBI. The Jester (th3j35t3r) who has a reputation for attacking websites he disagrees with is said to be trying to raise $10,000 in expected lawyers fees. If anyone is going to be alight in the whole Wikileaks debacle, its going to be the lawyers. Personally I think anyone who spells their nick with numbers in an effort to look ‘leet’ deserves to have their computer confiscated.”http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/01/206200/Wikileaks-DDoS-Attacker-Arrested-Equipment-Seized?from=twitter
Digging deeper down below…This exert is from the Times~jude
A self-proclaimed “hacktivist” is apparently taking some credit for the Internet attacks that shut down many pages on WikiLeaks.org today.
The hacker, who goes by the name Jester, claims on his blog to have used distributed denial of service attacks to bring down websites in the past — the same method WikiLeaks says it was hampered by on Sunday and today.
Jester often claims responsibility for bringing down websites on his Twitter account using the phrase “tango down,” which is used by the military to indicate that an enemy has been eliminated in a firefight.
“www.wikileaks.org – TANGO DOWN – for attempting to endanger the lives of our troops, ‘other assets’ & foreign relations #wikileaks #fail”
“If I was a wikileaks ‘source’ right now I’d be getting a little twitchy, if they cant protect their own site, how can they protect a src?”
“www.wikileaks.org – TANGO DOWN – INDEFINITLEY – for attempting to endanger the lives of our troops and ‘other assets’ #wikileaks #fail”
On his blog, Jester describes himself as a”hacktivist for good” and someone who is “obstructing the lines of communication for terrorists, sympathizers, fixers, facilitators, oppressive regimes and other general bad guys.”
Bio Quilliam is the world’s first counter-extremism think tank whose founders are former leading ideologues of UK-based extremist Islamist organizations.
The Jester’s intentions are explained in detail on his blog, in a post dating from September. In the post, the Jester describes the flaws of Wikileaks’ “insurance policy,” which consisted of making available an encrypted file, supposedly containing the secret documents that were leaked afterward. The file is useless without a decryption key, which would be provided by Wikileaks in case someone takes the site down.
The Jester hints of having obtained some sensitive information about Wikileaks itself, but said he decided not to upload it on Wikileaks as he doesn’t believe the information would see the light of day. He then provides an encrypted file of his own, claiming the information is contained within — again, as “insurance.”
While it is entirely possible for one experienced and resourceful hacker to take down a site — even a fairly large one — by a DDoS attack on his own, it’s not easy to prove whether the Jester is really behind the attack and, if he is, whether he was working on his own or if he had help. We’re sure the story will only give more fuel to the various rumors that are flying around Wikileaks being taken down.
What do you think? Is the most recent attack on Wikileaks the deed of a single person, or is a larger, more powerful organization behind it? Please, share your opinion in the comments.
By: ~jude
Cofounder @MaajidNawaz…Founder MIA…Heroes or villains? ~jude
