Folk Devil 2.0: beware the 50 Cent Army... Looks like the 1st full-blown folk devil 2.0 is shaping up in the form of China’s ‘50 cent Army’ (The Guardian) or ‘50 cent Party’ (BBC); because as Datamation proclaims the Chinese will wreck Web 2.0. What’s happening here is that the president and apparatchiks of the...

On Civil Society, APIs and Privacy... Noteworthy contrasts both sides of the pond re freedom and privacy. In America, Venture Beat reports on the New York Times and an API that opens up data from Congress which, allows developers to access data about which congresspeople represent which districts, and how they voted on specific issues. This is...