Traditional media’s adoption of social media
Think about the following platforms and when the first traditional media activity/participation occurred in that platform’s history: Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Chatroulette. It was a shorter and shorter period for each platform.*
Let’s call this the adoption half-life. It’s a bastardization of Moore’s Law, but the level of adoption required for a social platform to be covered as The Next Big Thing in social platforms will continue to decrease until NBT status is bestowed upon a platform used only by those in the media.
Twitter relies less on traditional media than blogs
The stories and issues that gain traction in social media differ substantially from those that lead in the mainstream press, according to a detailed analysis of social media by the Pew Research Center?s Project for Excellence in Journalism. The study also found that the links shared in Twitter are much less likely to be to traditional media outlets than the links in blogs.
Quitting Facebook is pointless; challenging them to do better is not
I?ve been critiquing moves made by Facebook for a long time and I?m pretty used to them being misinterpreted. When I lamented the development of the News Feed, many people believed that I thought that the technology was a failure and that it wouldn?t be popular. This was patently untrue. I was bothered by it precisely because I knew that it would be popular, precisely because people love to gossip and learn about others, often to their own detriment. It was hugely disruptive and, when it launched, users lacked the controls necessary to really manage the situation effectively. Facebook responded with controls and people were able to find a way of engaging with Facebook with the News Feed as a given. But people were harmed in the transition.
From Facebook, answering privacy concerns with new settings
Why do we make our tastes public?
Facebook has recently changed the way it asks its users to endorse brands and celebrities on the site. Rather than ask people to “become a fan” of say, Starbucks or Lady Gaga, Facebook will instead let users click to indicate that they “like” the item.
4 Minute Roundup: A Primer on Facebook Privacy Issues
Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition I focus on the recent privacy brouhaha at social networking giant Facebook. Why are prominent techies deleting their accounts and complaining? Mainly because Facebook keeps adding features that are “opt-out” instead of “opt-in” and its privacy policies are a complex mess. I talked with lawyer Michael McSunas to find out what’s angering people, and learn how Facebook can turn things around.
Facebook Pulls ?Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!? Page (Updated)
A Facebook Page and group which were called ?Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!? have been pulled from Facebook following protests, and the eventual banning of Facebook in Pakistan. In turn, a number of Facebook users decided to join new versions of the groups, but I?d expect those to be pulled eventually as well. Administrators of the new groups are claiming ?Free Speech?, however the Pakistani government doesn?t seem to view things in such a positive light.
EFF Proposes New Bill Of Rights For Facebook Users
As we now know, Facebook and its users have different opinions on the appropriate levels of privacy for the site. Users want more, Facebook wants less. While Facebook already has their own bill of rights for users, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is proposing their own Bill of Rights for users.
Celebrating PAC-MAN?s 30th birthday
When I was growing up, my dad had the best job I could possibly imagine: he was an arcade game and pinball technician. For me, that meant summer trips through Poland?s coastal cities with their seasonal arcade parlors; peeking inside cabinets to learn programming and engineering secrets; and?of course?free games!
New CNN ?Belief? blogger says he?ll give voice to atheist and nonbeliever issues
It?s been more than two years since CNN?s Paula Zahn Now showed ?Beliefs Under Attack,? a segment featuring a Mississippi couple who had been ostracized from their community because of their disbelief in God. Following the segment, Zahn hosted a panel that included two Christians and Jewish conservative columnist Debbie Schlussel but no actual atheists. ?What does an atheist believe?? one of the panelists asked. ?Nothing. I think this is such a ridiculous story. Are we not going to take ?In God We Trust? off of our dollars? Are we going to not say ?one nation under God? When does it end? We took prayer out of schools. What more do they want? ? I think they need to shut up and let people do what they do. No, I think they need to shut up about it.? Schlussel followed with an equally anti-atheist diatribe: ?I think that the real discrimination is atheists against Americans who are religious. Listen, we are a Christian nation. I?m not a Christian. I?m Jewish, but I recognize we?re a Christian country and freedom of religion doesn?t mean freedom from religion.?
Search more securely with encrypted Google web search
As people spend more time on the Internet, they want greater control over who has access to their online communications. Many Internet services use what are known as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections to encrypt information that travels between your computer and their service. Usually recognized by a web address starting with ?https? or a browser lock icon, this technology is regularly used by online banking sites and e-commerce websites. Other sites may also implement SSL in a more limited fashion, for example, to help protect your passwords when you enter your login information.
Technology for Transparency Review, Part VI
By David Sasaki
Over the past week we have published a number of posts to present our conclusions and recommendations to the technology for transparency movement by focusing on specific categories of projects: aid transparency, budget monitoring, election monitoring, civic complaints, and parliamentary informatics.
Those five categories encompass the vast majority of projects that we documented throughout our research. However, there are five other categories of technology for transparency projects that are also worth reviewing from a thematic perspective.
South Africa: Zapiro’s ?Muhammad? Cartoon Controversy
Zapiro, South Africa’s premier cartoonist, known for his controversial style in picking on politicians and commenting on social inequalities, has come into the limelight in South Africa for jumping on the ?Draw Muhammad Day? bandwagon. ?Everybody Draw Muhammad Day? is a drawing event organised by a Seattle cartoonist, Molly Norris , in response to Comedy Central decision to censor an episode that had depictions of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Massive Facebook Privacy Changes Are Imminent
Mark Zuckerberg hasn?t been speaking about the latest privacy changes, not because he?s trying to avoid the issue, but because they are working on rolling out major changes on the privacy front. In an email to Robert Scoble he stated that the company will ?start talking about some of the new things we?ve built this week.? From the sounds of things, it?s going to be a relatively major overhaul.
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