Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted

An anonymous reader writes "Joshua Kinberg, creator of Bikes Against Bush, was arrested in NYC for vandalism while being interviewed by MSNBC. Kinberg's website describes his project as 'using a Wireless Internet-enabled bicycle outfitted with a custom-designed printing device, the Bikes Against Bush bicycle can print text messages sent from web users directly onto the streets of Manhattan in water-soluble chalk". Both Wired and Popular Science have done stories on Kinberg's work." Update: 08/30 01:30 GMT by J : Mr. Kinberg has been released; he describes his arrest and brief stay behind bars on this MSNBC blog.

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Re:Time, place and manner regulations are lawful

[MmmDee]

Wow, a well-written, responsible, cogent thought on /.

mod up

[poofyhairguy82]

please mod up. Grax is not a troll (I'm a democrat).

Gutenberg - Slashdot Misses The "Big" Story

[rm3friskerFTN]

Like many other Slashdot readers I am puzzled why anyone would want to $ub$cribe to $la$dot ;-);-);-) given that Slashdot is missing the "BIG" story ... Mainstream Media vs Kid Internet

Right under the nose of the Slashdot Editors the really BIG story is breaking on the blogosphere and many (e.g. Slashdot readers and the few subscribers) are completely detached from the discussion of the long-term implications

From the Belmont Club blog ... The undercard in the Kerry vs Swiftvets bout is Mainstream Media vs Kid Internet, two distinctly different fights, but both over information. The first is really the struggle over the way Vietnam will be remembered by posterity; .... But the undercard holds a fascination of its own. The reigning champion, the Mainstream Media, has been forced against all odds to accept the challenge of an upstart over the coverage of the Swiftvets controversy. Joe Strupp at Editor and Publisher writes:

"There are too many places for people to get information," O'Shea said. " I don't think newspapers can be the gatekeepers anymore -- to say this is wrong and we will ignore it. Now we have to say this is wrong, and here is why."

The article is a candid and unconscious description of the actual nature of news. It is not just raw information or pixels pushed onto a screen, but a system of semantic entities: an series of information objects, containing properties and methods containing embedded logic, set loose on society. The power of the Mainstream Media lay in the fact that they controlled the generation of news objects; how they arose, what they did, how they ran their course. They were the news object foundry; able to make them "type safe"; define what they could do, and what they could not. And that power was enormous

Yet for good or ill, the genie is out of the bottle. Before the Gutenberg printing press men knew the contents of the Bible solely through the prism of the professional clergy, who could alone afford the expensively hand copied books and who exclusively interpreted it. But when technology made books widely available, men could read the sacred texts for themselves and form their own opinions. And the world was never the same again.