In response to a 3% tax on broadband access,Mexican citizens began on and off-line protests.

Christopher Baker, a Minnesota-based artist, recently unveiled a project to examine our digital world of personal updates.  His simple design with collaboration from Márton András Juhász and the Kitchen Budapest visualizes a live feed of updates from Twitter and Facebook, printing each short remark on an endless stream of receipts.
The work, entitled Murmur Study, brings to light how our social lives are digitally indexed by corporations and how we don’t seem to care.  These massive archives are privately accumulated and Baker’s installation uses 30 thermal printers to help visitors see how much information is cataloged and perhaps wasted.  For those [...]

Horizon Group Management has filed a $50,000 libel case against a former resident who claims she endured a moldy apartment on her twitter page, which she recently took down. The resident, Amanda Bonnen, lived at 4242 N. Sheridan in Chicago, only one of the more than 1,500 apartments owned by the Horizon Group.  The company discovered her twitter page that had only 20 followers and claims her tweet was “maliciously and wrongfully.”
Instead of contacting the owner to discuss her complaint, or perhaps fixing the problem, the management group thought legal action would be the best solution.  The understandable publicity is [...]

Yesterday we showed you an iPhone application that overlays indicators pointing to the nearest London Tube stations upon the phone’s video field of view. TwittARound, a new augmented reality app from German developer Michael Zoellner, works in the exact same way—utilizing the iPhone 3Gs’ integrated compass in conjunction with GPS and video data to mix data with what we see. TwittARound provides a 360 degree view of tweets made in the vicinity, so that, ideally, they could act as “post-it notes for the world,” as Wired’s Charlie Sorrel puts it—you could not only see a tweet regarding a great sandwich [...]

We attended the Shorty Awards in NYC Wednesday night, the first awards created to recognize the best producers of content on Twitter. Winners were selected from over 50,000 nominees across 26 categories running the gamut from news and sports to brand and design, highlighting the broad range of ways this relatively new media is being utilized to share information and communicate ideas.
The event kicked off with an opening message from Shaquille O’Neal, NBA player and personality behind the popular Twitter account The_Real_Shaq. The fact that he was only able to appear via video, didn’t seem to phase the tech-savvy crowd [...]