Inside Occupy Wall Street’s (Kinda) Secret Media HQ
[Wired]
The revolution may never be televised, but if Occupy activists in a semi-secret media war room in New York’s Bowery district have their way, it will be live streamed. (Wired)One Tent-Dwelling Wall Street Occupier’s Quest For Something Concrete
[Fast Company]
Student debt reformer Alan Collinge has brought a clear set of demands–and little patience for general assembly dickering–to Occupy Wall Street. He belongs to a large–but not unified–contingent of pragmatic policy wonks in the movement.
[Read the rest of One Tent-Dwelling Wall Street Occupier’s Quest For Something Concrete]Infographic: Who Is Occupy Wall Street?
[Fast Company]
A new study, shared exclusively with Fast Company, offers insight into participants. They span age and income groups, are largely apolitical, and are mostly white. They are also getting more active.
[Read the rest of Infographic: Who Is Occupy Wall Street?]Will The Real 99% Please Stand Up?
[Fast Company]
Occupy Wall Street is meant to be a leaderless movement. But that hasn’t stopped some people from trying to identify leaders. And some activists charge that organizations are trying to co-opt their message. How can a phenomenon with no central authority exercise authority over its brand?
[Read the rest of Will The Real 99% Please Stand Up?]The Real Role Of Anonymous In Occupy Wall Street
[Fast Company]
So far, the hacker collective known as Anonymous–or those claiming the name–has failed to live up to threats made via YouTube and social media. But they have brought a lot of buzz to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
[Read the rest of The Real Role Of Anonymous In Occupy Wall Street]What do “they” think of protests in the US
Today, as Occupy Wall Street occupied Times Square, I bumped into several folks from abroad (Europe and South America) and got their opinions.First, I saw the sign “French frogs are with you,” but I couldn’t make it across the crowd to find out more. I had closer conversations after that.
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Translating Content Is The New Having A Web Presence
[Fast Company]
A New York City translation tech venture, Smartling, today released a host of new features and services to help users translate their websites, mobile, and other digital content into many languages, quickly, affordably, and accurately.
[Read the rest on Fast Company]#OccupyWallStreet – Then and Now
On August 3rd, it was possible to know everyone in the New York General Assembly by name. Two months later, it’s hard to even know how many thousands are attending.See photos from then, and now.
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The Inside Story Of Occupy Wall Street
[Fast Company]
Frustration, doubt, chaos, and failures dominated the early days of Occupy Wall Street. So how has it lasted so long, grown, and spread around the country? Fast Company reporter Sean Captain was at the occupation from day one and looks back on a series of moments that made the movement feel different than any other action he’d covered or participated in before.
[Read: The Inside Story Of Occupy Wall Street]Apple’s iOS 5 is the sincerest form of flattery
Apple has an unimpeachable reputation as an innovator. But nothing is created in a vacuum. From the famous adaptation of the by-then well-established (among techies) “windows” concept to its late entry to the MP3 and smartphone market, Apple has judiciously built off other people’s ideas – as others have richly done with Apple’s.…
