The RP’s Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Tech

Matthew Inman of “The Oatmeal” successfully managed to raise $500,000 in two days to go towards a museum honoring Nikola Tesla. [Guardian]

In 6 days, with help from Inman the project raised it target amount of $875,000. With NY state matching the raised amount that puts the project at over $1.7 million. [The Next Web]

“Google’s Motorola division claims Apple is infringing on seven of its patents and wants to block iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers from being imported to the U.S.” [Digital Trends]

Here is a list of the 20 Most watched TED talks so far. If you don’t know what a TED talk is you should acquaint yourself with them by watching a couple of the videos on the list that sound interesting to you. [TED Blog]

Instead of buying Instagram for $1 billion cash, the deal was $300 million in cash and about 23 million shares of Facebook stock. The Instagram founders are out almost $300 million. [NY Times]

In a move that I’m surprised took this long to happen “eBay bans ‘intangible’ items including spells, curses & advice” [Wired]