Infoshop.org
| 200px | |
| Web address | www |
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| Slogan | "kill capitalism before it kills you" |
| Commercial? | No |
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Type of site
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Anarchist resource |
| Owner | Alternative Media Project |
| Created by | Chuck Munson |
| Launched | January 1995 |
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Alexa rank
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 416,520 (April 2014[update])[1] |
Infoshop.org is an anarchist website and project of the Alternative Media Project.
Contents
History
Infoshop was founded in January 1995 as the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop by Chuck Munson.[2] Having previously co-founded an online archive of anarchist texts, the Spunk Library, in 1992, Munson established Infoshop as a general resource on anarchism, moving to the domain name Infoshop.org in 1998.[2] Munson reorganized the website as a collective project in 2001, and as of November 2008[update], it is run by a core of nine people, supplemented by regular writers and volunteers.[2] Having previously being involved in publishing Practical Anarchy magazine, the collective announced plans on launching a quarterly magazine titled Infoshop News & Views to go "head-to-head against other American leftist magazines".[2]
Features
A prominent feature of the site is Infoshop News, an open publishing newswire similar to that of Indymedia.[3] Initiated in 1997, the news service is one of several thousand English language publishers carried by Google News. The site has a number of other sections, including forums, and wikis. In April 2008, a link aggregator, Infoshop Links was launched, using software based on popular social bookmarking service Digg.[4] The site also mirrors the anarchist-written FAQ "An Anarchist FAQ". A 2003 academic study of anarchist websites found that Infoshop was "the key anarchist site" and the only core anarchist site to closely cover the contemporary anarchist movement in addition to anarchist theory.[3]
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Alasbarricadas interviews Infoshop founder, Chuck Munson", Infoshop.org, 2008-02-20.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles containing potentially dated statements from April 2014
- Articles containing potentially dated statements from November 2008
- Official website not in Wikidata
- Anarchist websites
- Infoshops
- MediaWiki websites
- International anarchist organizations
- Discipline-oriented digital libraries
- Internet properties established in 1995
