The Ignorant Schoolmaster

In preparation of APPLESFORGERRIT…

To The Cloud

Uncloud

unCloud

Control your own cloud

The proliferation of social networking and current developments in service-based platforms (what has become known as ‘cloud computing’) provide explicit examples of the privatization and commodification of social production. What becomes clear is that our …

Cloud computing is a trap

Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman

Web-based programs like Google’s Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner. The concept …

Captives of the Cloud

Captives of the Cloud: Part I By Metahaven, in e-flux journal

We are the voluntary prisoners of the cloud; we are being watched over by governments we did not elect.

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Build a school in the Cloud

The Cloud can give magic to everything

2 TED TALKS by  Sugata Mitra. First he shows how kids teach themselves through a Hole in the Wall. A few years later, he adds The Cloud to the teaching concept…

Where is our data?

Google has just opened a new data center in Amsterdam.
But where is it?
In the clouds?

Where is data physically stored and kept?
Why is it important to keep it secret?

All they give on their site is this …

Who owns the cloud?

Megaupload and the Government’s Attack on Cloud Computing in  Electronic Frontier Foundation