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The Internet Mapped as Manhattan Neighborhoods

by Max Eddy | 12:51 pm, May 9th

Amanda Peyton, the creator of social messaging service MessageParty, has posted this intriguing image of the web, re-imagined as neighborhoods of Manhattan. She took her inspiration, she says, from the East Coast origins of many of the services, along with what she sees as a New Yorks mindset to services like Twitter.  On her blog, Peyton discusses her reasoning behind the placement:

Twitter + Wall Street: Frenetic, Jumbled, Terse, but incredibly powerful

Tumblr + West Village and Meatpacking: Coolness to a fault

Email + Chelsea and Times Square: Large, unmanageable, swelling, but ultimately the pulse of everything

Facebook + Upper East Side: The center of the “establishment”

Hacker News + Spanish Harlem: Steadfast, growing like a weed though few people notice, culture-rich but somewhat insulated

The full list can be found on her site, but it leaves one question unanswered: what is Central Park? In my mind, the beautiful and massive anchor to the city could be Google, or some other essential service. Readers, what do you think?

(Amanda Peyton via Beta Beat)

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Lieberman Proposes Internet “Kill Switch,” Calls Web a US “National Asset”

by Michael Suen | 1:18 pm, June 18th

There’s been a lot of WTF-news making the rounds recently. Try this one on for size: Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), at it again, proposed a bill last week that would effectively bestow the president with the authority to “seize control of or even shut down portions of the Internet,” writes CNET.

Bill S.3480, or the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act (PCNAA), has been dubbed the Internet “kill switch.” According to the legislation, in the case of national emergencies, any private company that relies on the U.S. “information infrastructure” would be forced to comply with any orders (e.g. encrypt data, install a patch, or block web traffic) given by the president via the National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications (NCCC), a proposed agency that would be created under the Department of Homeland Security. I guess American freedom only goes so far!

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