What once only big firms with hulking factories could fabricate can now be made in a basement or by e-mailing a design to an online factory-for-hire.
However, some employees and people posting messages online accused factory guards of provoking the trouble by beating up workers at the factory, which employs about 79,000 people and is owned by the world's largest contract maker of electronic goods.
Troemel is best known as the co-creator of the popular Tumblr blog the Jogging, an online art factory that, starting in 2009, produced thousands of strange images that blurred the distinction between art and meme.
Swatch, the fashion watch for the masses, has created Swatch X You, a clever online watch "factory" that lets you pick a face, band, and extra doodads to truly customize your $65 to $85 watch.
Because now Made.com, a London based start-up that offers consumers designer furniture online at factory prices, has raised a £6 million series B funding to expand its brand in the UK and fuel international expansion.
The report, which you can read here, was published today but given to some outlets over the weekend; it summarizes the work of the Internet Research Agency, Moscow's online influence factory and troll farm.
Understandably, the online laugh factory known as Twitter had some fun with the photo.
Now almost all of China's provincial governments have created platforms to disclose data online about local factory emissions, though data quality and reporting speeds vary.
The toy company now lets online visitors (at factory.lego.com) design Lego models and upload them to a gallery to show off their skills.
Designed and developed in Europe, the Fiesta will go into production at a Ford plant in Cologne, Germany, this fall, with additional capacity being brought online at a factory in Valencia, Spain, in 2009.
