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The Nerfherder, by Rob Domanski
http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2015/02/internet-governance-and-new-http2.html
Editorials on the cross-section where politics and culture meet cyberspace. Monday, February 23, 2015. Internet Governance and the New HTTP2 Protocol. Which brings us to last week's big news that the HTTP2 protocol has officially been completed. There is a single institution known as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). So let's all celebrate! After all, this is the Web's open democratic process in action, right? And ultimately built a rough consensus. Regardless of the power relationships involve...
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The Nerfherder, by Rob Domanski
http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2014/09/internet-governance-and-whether-terror.html
Editorials on the cross-section where politics and culture meet cyberspace. Wednesday, September 24, 2014. Internet Governance and Whether Terror Victims Can (or Should) Be Able to Seize Domain Names. In June, a U.S. District Court issued a judgment. In the case of Ben Haim et al. v Islamic Republic of Iran et al. Specifically, the U.S. District Court issued "writs of attachment" against ICANN. This case raises a few interesting questions. First of all, is a country's domain name suffix "property"? Secon...
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The Nerfherder, by Rob Domanski
http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-reddit-shutdown-model-cyber-protest.html
Editorials on the cross-section where politics and culture meet cyberspace. Thursday, July 09, 2015. The Reddit Shutdown: Model Cyber Protest or Temper Tantrum? Last Friday approximately 300 discussion forums on Reddit were shut down. Reddit's CEO, Ellen Pao, apologized for not informing the community. Meanwhile, all of the subreddit forums are back online. Should the rest of us care? On the other hand, Ms. Taylor is still fired and, only a few days later, the subreddits are cruising along as if noth...
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The Nerfherder, by Rob Domanski
http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2014/12/tweeting-alone-slacktivism-and-decline.html
Editorials on the cross-section where politics and culture meet cyberspace. Monday, December 08, 2014. Tweeting Alone: Slacktivism and the Decline of Civic Engagement. Dave Karpf of Rutgers University wrote a clarifying piece recently entitled, "Slacktivism as Optical Illusion". In which he describes how online activities labeled (with a negative connotation) as slacktivism. Can either be a waste of time or may actually serve a larger purpose. It depends on how the activity is carried out. Online social ...
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The Nerfherder, by Rob Domanski
http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2008/02/shame-of-anonymous-protests.html
Editorials on the cross-section where politics and culture meet cyberspace. Monday, February 04, 2008. The Shame of the "Anonymous" Protests. When my friend Andre brought up this topic yesterday during the Super Bowl, it seemed a clear indication of just how amazingly far this story has spread. Last week, a group calling itself "Anonymous" announced that it would stage international protests. What observations can we draw from this series of events? What these wannabe hacktivists need to understand is th...
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The Nerfherder, by Rob Domanski
http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-to-turn-your-old-computer-into-web.html
Editorials on the cross-section where politics and culture meet cyberspace. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. How to Turn Your Old Computer into a Web Server (for free). So, in a brief attempt to update my old paper, here are the necessary steps for turning your old computer into a Web server. Which contains the Apache Web Server software. Double-click the MSI file to begin installing with the wizard. Keep all of the defaults. This should install the Apache Web Server to your "C: Program Files" directory. Any fi...
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The Nerfherder, by Rob Domanski
http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2014/10/using-proxy-servers-to-help-hong-kong.html
Editorials on the cross-section where politics and culture meet cyberspace. Wednesday, October 01, 2014. Using Proxy Servers to Help the Hong Kong Protesters. As reported by CNN. Users cannot view images on Instagram and are instead directed to a message that reads, "Can't refresh feed". Meanwhile. When relevant results appeared on the Chinese search engines, the articles contained a distinctively pro-China slant and even surfaced a month-old article about a small pro-Beijing counter-protest in Hong Kong.
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The Nerfherder, by Rob Domanski
http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2012/10/doxing-internets-biggest-troll.html
Editorials on the cross-section where politics and culture meet cyberspace. Tuesday, October 16, 2012. Doxing the Internet's Biggest Troll, "Violentacrez". If you have ten minutes to spare on your lunch break, I promise you won't be disappointed by reading Gawker's unmasking last week of "Violentacrez". More recently, he's been at the center of a firestorm regarding the forum named "Creepshots". In this subreddit, users post covert photos they've taken of women in public, usually close-ups of their b...
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The Nerfherder, by Rob Domanski
http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2014/11/big-data-and-municipal-governments.html
Editorials on the cross-section where politics and culture meet cyberspace. Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Big Data and Municipal Governments. Data analytics, or "Big Data". Is already widely used by businesses to find correlations that help to make predictions - predictions about consumer behavior, predictions about value-chains and supply-chains, etc. By doing so, Big Data greatly improves organizational efficiency and forecasting, spotting trends as they emerge or even before they emerge. Surely, this ...
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The Nerfherder, by Rob Domanski
http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-political-economy-of-3d-printing.html
Editorials on the cross-section where politics and culture meet cyberspace. Monday, April 06, 2015. The Political Economy of 3D Printing. At least, such are the claims that technologists have been raving about when it comes to 3D printing for several years now. The one area showing some early promise is that of Political Economy. In New Orleans a few weeks ago, Greek scholars Pierrakakis, Gkritzali, Kandias, and Gritzalis submitted a paper to the International Studies Association Annual Conference ti...
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