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The humanity of Our Mark

5th April
2009
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On 16 February 2006, Australian public broadcaster SBS current affairs program DATELINE telecast a segment featuring 60 new photos of the torture inflicted on prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

These photos were secured by court order, but the photos had not, at that time, been shown in the media anywhere in the United States.

Our Mark immediately saw the need for access to both Web-downloadable versions and BitTorrent file-sharing network versions of the broadcast. He sprang into action and made both the images and the show itself available on his VRML website.

His initiative was responsible for the dissemination of this information into the US.

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Analysing The Evolution of a Meme

28th March
2009
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Mark Pesce, our noted leader and predictor of all things digital shows his flexibility.

In a recently posted video of a 2007 lecture, Mark used the work Networking to describe the our internet future. A future, I might add, that will come to fruition as he predicts.

Like other soothsayers such as Nostradamus, the exact nomenclature of future objects and technologies will change: and Mark knows this. In fact, I believe that Mark is inventing these terms for our emerging digital culture.

From 2007: Networking

From 2008: Hyperconnectivity

From 2009: Sharing

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