Tag: Rick Falkvinge

Building reddit-frontpage-proof websites?

7 February 2012

Rick Falkvinge's website Falkvinge.net recently frontpaged reddit. Actually, in the default setup, he had three articles, (#16, #22, #24), which, as he says, is a record for him. Why is this a big deal? Well with reddit being Alexa-ranked 133 and getting about 8.7 million visitors every day, being on the front page 3 times […]

The Pirates: Just a political party for a certain age group in Sweden?

4 February 2012

At Learning Without Frontiers Conference, Keri Facer, Professor of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University said: …in Sweden we have the first political party, that, if you like, is allying itself with a particular age group – the Pirate Party. I don't think this is true. I mean sure, in Sweden there's a political party called the […]

The 5 best, anti-SOPA protest songs

17 January 2012

So with the blackout of Wikipedia, Reddit and everything, Rick Falkvinge got me thinking. If the iconic singer songwriters of the labour movements were Arlo Guthrie and Billy Bragg, who are the iconic singer songwriters of the Digital Rights movement? I'm genuinely interested if you have a suggestion. To help you consider the question, here […]

Pirate Party Germany Scores Historic Win

19 September 2011

Originally posted on the Pirate Party website. Tim Dobson – Pirate Party UK Education Spokesperson: On Sunday I was in Germany watching the Pirate Party movement making history again. The Pirate Party entered the Berlin State Parliament, gaining 14 seats after polling almost 9% of the vote. At the same time the liberal FDP, a […]