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| Feb 16, 2011 | Will $25 Million In Government Money Make The Internet Truly Free (As In Freedom)? | Flickr’d
Good ol’ government, spreading freedom and whatnot. The U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said yesterday that the government plans to invest a cool $25 million in order to help people get around Internet “thugs, hackers, an... |
| Jan 14, 2011 | The #Tunisian Revolution Wasn't Televized, But You Could Follow It On Twitter | http://twitter.com/#!/pareene/statuses/25971768090959873
For those of you not following the hashtags #sidibouzid (the Tunisian province where this month’s protests started) #Tunisia, #Tunisian, or #Tunise here’s the executive summary:
Tunis... |
| Dec 29, 2010 | The biggest surprises of 2010: A lost iPhone prototype, Groupon snubs Google, and more | Sometimes the most memorable stories of the year aren’t necessarily the biggest ones — instead, they’re the bits of news that completely blindside us. While many of those surprising stories may indeed go on to be among the biggest of the ye... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | Is Operation Payback A Crime… Or Just The Modern Equivalent Of A Sit In? | With the news coming out that Dutch officials have supposedly arrested someone involved in “Operation Payback,” the Anonymous-driven DDoSing of certain websites (first those in favor of stronger copyright, and now those working against Wiki... |
| Sep 16, 2010 | Moroccan Atheist Blogger Receives Death Threats: This Week in Online Tyranny | Kacem El Ghazzali threatened with murder. Kacem El Ghazzali, a Moroccan blogger and atheist, has received death threats on his Facebook page. One threatened to slaughter him like a sheep. Another spoke of a nearby town.
“We shall meet at El... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | Haystack Situation Looking Worse And Worse: Why Did The State Dept. Endorse This Mess? | A couple weeks ago, we noted that there were increasingly serious questions being asked about Haystack, the high profile app that was being championed in the press for supposedly helping Iranian dissidents use the internet to communicate sa... |
| Sep 7, 2010 | Top 10 Online Free Speech Resources | Anyone who writes on a specific topic will have a set of resources he or she refers to in order to keep on top of what’s happening. Those of us who keep an eye out on how free speech issues affect the online world tend to use resources that... |
| Sep 2, 2010 | Forget Finding A Needle In A Haystack… How About Actually Finding Haystack | We recently wrote about Newsweek’s coverage of Austin Heap and Haystack, a program he supposedly wrote to help Iranian internet users avoid being spied on by the Iranian government. Some of our commenters questioned the overall legitimacy o... |
| May 27, 2010 | Subpoena for Anonymous Twitterers Dropped: This Week in Online Tyranny | Two anonymous twitterers in the American state of Pennsylvania – @bfbarbie and @CasablancaPA – tweeted harsh criticisms of the state’s attorney general, Tom Corbett, who is a candidate for the governorship. On May 6, a grand jury in Harrisb... |
| Feb 21, 2010 | NSFW: Playing catch-up… Or ceci n'est pas une column | When I was at school, I almost never took sick days. This wasn’t because I enjoyed going to school – I really, really didn’t. Rather it was because I knew exactly what would happen if I dared to skip even a day of classes.
A duck would some... |
| Feb 12, 2010 | Google Buzz Privacy Issues Have Real Life Implications | Merging something designed for public broadcasting (Buzz) with something inherently private (Gmail) was just looking for trouble.
Google is -deservedly – getting a lot of heat for the fact that its latest social product has a number of priv... |
| Feb 11, 2010 | Google tweaks Buzz in response to privacy complaints | Google is learning to iterate the Facebook way —
1) Develop, develop, develop. 2) Release. 3) PRIVACY UPROAR. 4) Frantic fix. 5) Deep breath. 6) And repeat.
After launching Google Buzz two days ago to a world curious to see whether the sear... |
| Feb 11, 2010 | Google tweaks Buzz in response to privacy complaints | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google is learning to iterate the Facebook way —
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| Nov 11, 2009 | Using Spin To Control Social Media | |
| Sep 2, 2009 | The Real-Time Web: A Primer, Part 2 | This is part 2 of a three-part series on the fundamental characteristics of the real-time Web.
In part 1 we looked at how the real-time Web is a new form of communication and creates a new body of content. The immediacy of the Twitter chann... |
| Aug 14, 2009 | Belarus officially supports radiation-proof cellphone pockets for kids | You and I both know that the only way to prevent dangerous EF radiation is by wrapping your cellphone in cling-film and aluminum foil and then battering it and frying it in cornmeal. The resulting phonedog is safe and delicious.
Sadly, the ... |
| Jul 8, 2009 | Let's slow down with the scary-sounding cyberwar stuff | Matt Drudge is running two big stories right now: The Google Chrome OS, and the apparent cyberattack that took down a few U.S. government Web sites. Several outlets, including the AP, are already going with the scary-sounding “It was the No... |
| Apr 27, 2009 | StumbleUpon adds Facebook, comments to its web-based recommendations | StumbleUpon, an application for discovering and rating web content, is fine tuning its web experience. As part of the app’s growth outside of its proprietary toolbar, StumbleUpon is announcing updates to its web-based interface, like Facebo... |
| Apr 27, 2009 | Roundup: Pleo is dead, Twitter spreads swine flu, Google Earth solves plane crash and more | Here’s all the latest action:
Verizon iPhone in the works — Apple and Verizon have been talking about launching an iPhone for the Verizon network as early as next year. USA Today has the story.
Tragedy strikes as Pleo, the magic dinosaur, i... |
| Apr 27, 2009 | It's Not Twitter's Power To Misinform That We Should Be Worried About… | A few folks have sent in this essay by Evgeny Morozov at ForeignPolicy.com complaining about “Twitter’s power to misinform” concerning swine flu. It sure sounds good as a thesis, but it makes little sense. Twitter’s power to misinform is no... |
| Apr 20, 2009 | More childishness: ‘Hackers’ attack music industry Web site post-Pirate Bay guilty verdict | The maturity of a certain segment of the pro-Pirate Bay brigade continues to impress. In the wake of last week’s guilty verdict, people had taken to the streets in Sweden. Fair enough, that’s not hurting anyone, and protest is a time-honore... |
| Apr 7, 2009 | Student Protests Are Turning Into A Twitter Revolution In Moldova | Students in Moldova are using Twitter as a tool to mobilize opposition against a communist victory in Moldovian elections. According to reports, close to 10,000 protesters gathered at Moldova’s parliament in Chisinau, Moldova’s capital and ... |