Howard Zinn, 1970.
... the existence, preservation and availability of archives, documents, records in our society are very much determined by the distribution of wealth and power. That is, the most powerful, the richest elements in society have the greatest capacity to find documents, preserve them, and decide what is or is not available to the public. This means government, business and the military are dominant.
Zeynep Tufekci (UNC iSchool). What Happens to #Ferguson Affects Ferguson: Net Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering.
How the internet is run, governed and filtered is a human rights
issue.
#ferguson
Cody Buntain and Jenn Goldbeck
% twarc.py --search ferguson
417,972 Unique Unshortened URLs
9,176 Unique Unshortened URLs
Venerable Bede - Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
David Levy - Scrolling Forward
This little receipt is a historical document. Although hardly
of the magnitude -- or the permanence -- of the Rosetta stone,
it is a snapshot of something that happened at another time and
place. Embedded in it physically, through the absorption of
blue dye into processed tree pulp, is the record of a moment
when someone (in fact it was me) bought a tuna sandwich, a
bag of chips, and a bottle of water in a deli on El Camino
Real in Burlingame, California.
The receipt is historical in another sense as well. If it
serves as a reminder of a minor transaction in late October
1997, it simultaneously carries within its form the memory of
thousands of years of human struggle and development. That
receipts like this one are so readily printed and so casually
tossed away is due in large measure to the availability of
cheap, high-quality paper. This wasn't always so.
Not just 140 characters.
- time
- hashtags
- geo coordinates
- places
- embedded media
- urls
- retweet
- reply to
- user
- profile
- avatar
- follower count
- Twitter API
JavaScript Object Notation
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