Tag: occupy

Occupy Facebook: innovation in the era of social protest

Wired reports that a group involved in the Occupy movement is working on its own decentralized social networking platform: “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own Facebook,” said Ed Knutson, a web and mobile app developer who joined a team of activist-geeks redesigning social networking for the […]

December 29, 2011
Otherwise Occupied: it’s hard to blog about app stores when police are beating people down the street

November was a hard blogging month for me. I managed two posts: a single embedded TEDx talk (albeit one by Kaliya, who I respect greatly), and one about Thanksgiving. I just didn’t have it in me. You see, I don’t love tech on its own; I love what it can do for people. More specifically, […]

November 30, 2011

Occupy Facebook: innovation in the era of social protest