Author: m1k3y

zoetica:

If you’ve been looking for a way to directly help Japan, you can – by making a contribution to Safecast. Safecast aims to donate personal geiger counters to the people in Japan, as well as to create an open data sensor network, with the information gathered with these devices accessible to anyone.

The folks at Safecast have been on-site in Japan, gathering data themselves – you can read about their setup and what they’ve found on their first recon mission, here.

Check out Safecast’s “About” video and donate if you can. There is just one week left to help, and this valuable project won’t get funded at all if their goal isn’t reached.

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My guess is that they removed it because a company out there declared they had the right because of trademark. This kills me. I’ve been using the handle “zephoria” online since around 1998 when I started signing messages with that handle while still at Brown. It’s actually a funny blurring of two things: zephyr and euphoria. Zephyr was the name of the instant messaging service at Brown and the name of the dog that I lived with in 1997, two things that I loved dearly. And talking about euphoria was a personal joke between me and a friend. I registered the domain name zephoria.org to create a private blog that would be separate from what was at danah.org. I chose .org because I liked to see myself as an organization, not a commercial entity. A few years ago, I learned that there is a technology consulting company called Zephoria.com. And apparently, they’ve become a social media consulting company. In recent years, I’ve found that they work hard to block me from using the handle of zephoria on various social media sites. Even before the midnite land grab on Facebook, they squatted the name zephoria, probably through some payment to the company. But this is a new low… Now they’re STEALING my accounts online!?!?!? WTF?!?!?!

danah boyd | apophenia » Tumblr disappeared me…
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We don’t need another world above the clouds or in the past; the greatest marvels are found here, in our own world, in our own day- invisible to the eye which is dull, it is true, but clear and tangible to the eye that sees.

August Endell, 1905 (via theremina)
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With the exception of Ethiopia, which blocks a number of political and security-related websites, and a few cases of isolated Internet censorship related to political events, most of sub-Saharan Africa has historically been free of technical filtering. This week, however, the government of Uganda wrote to the heads of three of the country’s major ISPs asking them to block Facebook and “Tweeter” [sic] “to eliminate the connection and sharing of information that incites the public.” The request comes on the heels of a week of opposition protests over rising fuel and food prices. The protests have been widely advertised on Twitter using the hashtag #walk2work, and opposition leaders Kizza Besigye and Norbert Mao, among others, have been repeatedly arrested.

Ugandan Government Asks ISPs to Block Facebook, Twitter | OpenNet Initiative
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