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| Oct 25, 2011 | Vancouver Merging Media conference Oct. 27, 28: Film, TV + interactive in a transmedia world | Article content
Vancouver’s second annual Merging Media conference kicks off Thursday, bringing together traditional and interactive media specialists with a two-day agenda focusing on the fast-growing area of cross-media. |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | In breaking news, Libya's Muammar el-Qaddafi is confirmed dead. The New York Times has the story, a timeline of Qaddafi's regime, and an analysis of the Obama administration's war strategy. The Washington Post covers the stor... |
| Oct 14, 2011 | Drone Games: Our Problems Are Bigger Than USBs | The U.S.'s fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles may not have been poisoned, after all. Maybe the drones – or those flying them with joysticks from air-conditioned trailers at Creech Air Force Base in rural Nevada – are just really into on... |
| Oct 10, 2011 | Element Six opens office in Silicon Valley | Synthetic diamond firm to join Silicon Valley tech industry
Diamond conglomerate De Beers announced Monday that it has opened a new venture capital office in Silicon Valley, hoping to invest in companies that use synthetic diamond materials... |
| Sep 30, 2011 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Anwar al-Awlaki, an influential member of al Qaeda who was one of the most wanted members of any terrorist organization, has been killed in an airstrike in northern Yemen, as Sudarsan Raghavan at the Washington Post reports, as does a trio ... |
| Sep 28, 2011 | Video: Anonymous Calls On Protestors To “Occupy The Planet” | It wouldn’t be utterly shocking to find that you are unaware of the Occupy Wall Street protests currently underway in downtown Manhattan. The mainstream media coverage of it has been shockingly minimal, but it’s real, it’s happening, and ap... |
| Sep 9, 2011 | Remembering 9/11 online | This Sunday will mark the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US.
While TV news dominated the coverage of the attacks 10 years ago, this year, the Internet, tablets and social media provide new ways of remembering, unde... |
| Sep 7, 2011 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Adam Liptak, in his New York Times column, writes about the state of civil liberties, ten years after September 11, while William Saletan at Slate discusses how much has changed in the way we wage war since 9/11. He also points to a recent ... |
| Aug 18, 2011 | Syrians Campaign for Detained Geek: This Week in Online Tyranny | Campaign for imprisoned Syrian blogger. Anyone who still believes that imprisonment and torture of social media users is limited to political radicals and gadfly journalists need look no further than Syria’s Anas Maarawi to be disabused of ... |
| Aug 2, 2011 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | While the compromise on the debt ceiling has dominated the news over the last few days, there has been a lot of coverage of interest too.
As Ben noted here, the Obama administration invoked the state secrets privilege in seeking dismissal o... |
| Jul 19, 2011 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Senator John McCain wants a new Congressional panel created to deal with cybersecurity. Ben Pershing at the Post discusses McCain's proposal sent to Senate leaders last week. Last week, Jennifer Martinez broke down the Pentagon's ... |
| Jul 16, 2011 | Web Is War: We All Live In a Warzone Now | Now the Internet is a battlefield.
The United States Armed Forces have officially advanced into a fifth theater of warfare with yesterday's release of the Department of Defense's Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace (here's t... |
| Jul 13, 2011 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | In ongoing coverage of the rapid increase in the use of drones in warfare, National Defense Magazine reports on the effect this expansion will have on data use and management.
Richard Norton-Taylor of the Guardian writes on the UK Supreme C... |
| Jun 16, 2011 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Al Qaeda has announced a successor to Osama bin Laden: Ayman al-Zawahiri will be its new leader. The New York Times covers the story here, while The Washington Post's coverage is available here. You may read a partial translation of th... |
| Jun 15, 2011 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The New York Times and The Washington Post report that Pakistan's top intelligence agency has arrested five CIA informants involved with the raid on the bin Laden compound. These arrests seem to signify a growing rift between U.S. and ... |
| May 27, 2011 | International Lulz: Anonymous Aids Rebellions in Tunisia, Algeria and Libya | Say what you will about Anonymous*, but they’ve managed (with a few outlying exceptions) to become one of the most unexpected forces of good in the world. Early indications of this revolutionary sense of purpose emerged during the collectiv... |
| May 24, 2011 | Saudi Woman Driver Arrested After Posting on YouTube (UPDATED) | A Saudi woman, Manal al-Sharif, has been arrested after posting a video of herself driving on YouTube and Facebook, according to Al Jazeera.
She was taken into custody Saturday, not by the country’s police – driving as a woman is not illega... |
| Mar 30, 2011 | Al Jazeera Talks to Anonymous (Video) | From Al Jazeera
Anonymous, or Anon, is a movement made up of a number of nameless internet activists from around the world. For many, the ‘hacktivist’ group has become the face of the new cyber-war against oppressive governments and all-pow... |
| Mar 4, 2011 | Libya takes lesson from Egypt, goes offline | Google and Renesys report Libya Internet traffic has flatlined as turmoil escalates
Amid escalating violence, dwindling food and medical resources in rebel areas, and a mass refugee exodus, Libya has decided to take the chaos one step furth... |
| Feb 13, 2011 | Al Jazeera's Social Revolution (In Realtime) | While you can debate about the exact role of social media, specifically Twitter and Facebook, in Egypt’s revolution, there is no question about its role as a new global media channel. Where once people tuned into CNN to watch governments co... |
| Feb 4, 2011 | How Al Jazeera Is Using Promoted Tweets & Trends to Get Into U.S. Markets | When protests erupted in Egypt nearly two weeks ago, the government’s response was swift and all-encompassing – shut off all forms of communication. One media outlet rose from the ashes to provide consistent live coverage of the events in E... |
| Feb 3, 2011 | Social media sense: Egypt's ban did nothing | Internet access returns to Egyptians a week later; the media will flow, the sea of knowledge grows
[Update on Feb. 3 at 11:16 AM PST: I spoke too soon. The Internet shutdown did do something: it cost Egypt's economy as much as $90 mill... |
| Feb 2, 2011 | WITN: Is Egypt A Twitter Revolution? No. But Is That Even The Point? [TCTV] | After weeks of simmering tensions, finally the Egyptian situation has erupted into violence. Even the media has been caught up in vicious battles.
No, we’re not talking about Anderson Cooper being punched in the face, but rather this week’s... |
| Feb 2, 2011 | MidEast Youth Launches Crowdvoice for Yemeni Day of Rage | Egypt casts a tall shadow and this last week’s protests have captured the world’s attention. But it is far from the only country to take heart from Tunisia’s revolution and go out into the streets. Yemen has called for tomorrow, February 3,... |
| Feb 1, 2011 | Roku Adds Al-Jazeera & USB to Channels | Roku, the little box that brings streaming Internet content to your television screen, announced two additions today that bring the Internet TV device to a new level. A device like Roku can be judged both in terms of what content it nativel... |
| Feb 1, 2011 | Middle East Protests Unnerve Business -- but Oil Prices Over React | The protests that brought down the Tunisian government and that challenge Hosni Mubarak's long grip on power in Egypt continue to spread through the Middle East. Jordan saw a few thousand on the streets over the last three Fridays and ... |
| Jan 31, 2011 | First Tunisia, Then Egypt -- Will Syria Be Next? | Now that Tunisia overthrew its ruler and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak is facing calls to leave office from a variety of sources, including demonstrators, former President Jimmy Carter, and Egyptian actor Omar Sharif. So you might wonder: who&... |
| Jan 31, 2011 | We're Now Watching The "You" News Network | Back in November, Reuters published an article titled “Twitter co-founder hopes to create news network” where Biz Stone mulled over the idea that Twitter could create a social news firehose based on verticals. While the erroneous headline e... |
| Jan 31, 2011 | Event Highlights: January 31 – February 5, 2011 | We hope you enjoyed all of that snow Philadelphia, because it’s back to business this week as we turn the calendar over to February.
This week, Wharton hosts VCs, NetTuesday is right behind you and IDGA keeps the video game momentum rolling... |
| Jan 30, 2011 | Bill Keller vs Wikileaks: Goodnight, Julian Assange, And Bad Luck | I’m loath to write again about Wikileaks, or about its pig-to-man founder, Julian Assange. Not because I’ve run out of things to say, but because the response is so predictable when I do.
Within minutes, the Assange fanboys – the Wikilieber... |
| Jan 28, 2011 | Egypt’s internet shutdown sparks a communications battle | Freedom of expression and internet access go hand in hand. By shutting down the internet, the Egyptian government has sparked a wider battle about communications, technology, and free speech that goes beyond issues of concern among the coun... |
| Jan 17, 2011 | Al-Awlaki Prosecuted Successfully in a Civilian Court? | Well, yes, in Yemen, in absentia. According to al-Jazeera, the government of Yemen indicted al-Awlaki and his cousin (Othman al-Awlaki) for inciting another man--Hisham Mohammed Assem--to carry out an attack on westerners at an oil facility... |
| Jan 8, 2011 | Pirate Party Members Arrested in Tunisian Censorship Revolt | Starting mid-December thousands of Tunisian citizens protested on the streets against the harsh economic conditions, political repression and increasing levels of censorship by their Government.
Calls from the public to allow freedom of spe... |
| Oct 29, 2010 | Is Gulf Seafood Safe To Eat? Feds' New Test Says Yes, Not Convincingly | More than 9,000 square miles of U.S. federal Gulf waters are closed to commercial and recreational fishing today thanks to the BP oil spill. However, government offices today claimed that seafood from the Gulf is basically safe to consume, ... |
| Oct 8, 2010 | China Tries To Scrub The Internet Of All Information About Nobel Peace Prize Winner | The EFF points out that with Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Chinese censors have sprung into action trying to block all mentions of or research on either Liu Xiaobo or the Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently doing sea... |
| Sep 7, 2010 | Police in 14 Countries Raid File-Sharing Hosts And Hit Close to Wikileaks | Authorities cracked down on file-sharing sites across Europe yesterday in a major operation two years in the making, Swedish officials told media.
The raid is getting special attention because one target in Stockholm is best known for hosti... |
| May 31, 2010 | Friends Again: Pakistan Court Lifts Ban On Facebook | On Monday, a Pakistani court ordered authorities to restore access to social networking site Facebook after company officials reportedly apologized for a page deemed offensive to Muslims and removed its contents. The Lahore High Court impos... |
| May 19, 2010 | Pakistan Court Orders Temporary Facebook Ban Over Prophet Caricatures | A Pakistani court this morning ordered authorities to temporarily block social networking service Facebook over a competition encouraging users to publish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed on the site. Pakistani muslims stepped up to cond... |
| Apr 28, 2010 | How Much Does CNN.com Suck? WTFCNN.com Shows You | We’ve all had the experience. You visit cnn.com looking to catch up on the day’s news and have a total WTF!? moment when instead you’re greeted by Jessica Alba’s plans to adopt a child. Meanwhile, bombs are exploding around the world, peopl... |
| Mar 16, 2010 | Al Jazeera adds live streaming to mobile website and makes iPhone apps free | Al Jazeera’s mobile Media unit has been quite busy lately. After making their iPhone apps free, the broadcaster has added live streaming to their mobile website. Live streaming is supported on the iPhone only for now, but Al Jazeera’s Mobil... |
| Jul 2, 2009 | Now Al Jazeera integrates Twitter into its shows | In a sign of the growing importance of micro-blogging in communication, and let’s face it Twitter is the daddy of this, the icon of Middle Eastern TV network Al Jazeera is now integrating Tweets from its viewers into its output. During the ... |
| Feb 13, 2009 | Celebrity gadget notes from all over | Hard to imagine that Apple will be falling over themselves to celebrate this "celebrity" sighting, but a doozy in Al-Jazeera does have interesting implications for understanding how the Taliban has changed since the war started.
T... |
| Oct 17, 2008 | MobileActive08: Using Mobile Web for Social Action | MobileActive08, a conference about using mobile technology for social action, was held this week in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference was a 3 day event and covered topics such as: mobile internet usage by low income youth, how mobi... |
| Oct 7, 2007 | YouTube Deepens Commercial Relationship With Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera signed a commercial agreement with Google last week to share advertising revenue on their YouTube channel. The channel originally launched in April 2007.
This comes even as U.S. cable operators continue to shun the 24 hour news s... |