Anonymous raises $54,798 through Indiegogo to kick-start its dedicated news site for Your Anon News
from The Next Web by Nick Summers
Who Really Opposes CISPA?
from EFF.org Updates by Rainey Reitman
In a hearing earlier today on the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), Representative Mike Rogers dismissed the opposition to the bill. He compared opponents of the bill to a “14 year old” tweeting in a basement (watch the video).
White House Once Again Threatens to Veto CISPA
from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick
‘The Guardian’ Calls for Citizen Journalists Via App
from Mashable! by Lauren Indvik
The Guardian?s new GuardianWitness app opens up reporting to the masses
from The Next Web by Paul Sawers
The Internet Archive Aggressively Expands Its Software Collection, Now the Largest of Its Kind Online
from The Next Web by Harrison Weber
How Not to Date in a Social Media World
from Mashable! by Neha Prakash
Why Bankers Want You to Fear Bitcoin
from Mashable! by Matt Petronzio
TechNet, Microsoft, CISPA: Oh my! The current cybersecurity muddle hearkens to the early days of SOPA
from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm
5 Things Kobe Bryant Can Teach Us About Social Media
from Mashable! by Sam Laird
Why Microsoft Wants to Be Amazon ? And Amazon Wants to Be Microsoft
from Wired Top Stories by Cade Metz
Microsoft wants to be more like Amazon. And Amazon wants to be more like Microsoft. This is the state of cloud computing.
Google versus Bing: Enhanced Campaigns
from social media vb by Amanda DiSilvestro
It has been a little over two months since Google introduced its new enhanced campaigns. Not everyone is on board with the updates, which then begs the question: Why do some people disagree with the new Google enhanced campaigns, and are the Bing changes any better?
How Anonymous have become digital culture’s protest heroes
The Guardian
In 2007, the hacktivist collective Anonymous was dubbed the “internet hate machine” by Fox News for their trolling campaigns. Six years later, they are the white knights of the digital realm, seeking justice for the now deceased 17-year-old Rehtaeh
5 Reasons You Should Be Swimming In Bitcoins
from social media vb by Alex Becker
Bitcoins are a kind of online, open-source currency whose value is not backed by any precious metal, tradable commodity, or national economy ? making it essentially decentralized with respect to the international market. Here are five reasons you should be paying attention.
5 Reasons You Should Still Invest in Bitcoin
from Mashable! by The Daily Dot
Bio-hackers, crime journalism, and socialstructing the future
from Boing Boing by Marina Gorbis
Self-Organized Crisis Response to #BostonMarathon Attack
from iRevolution by Patrick Meier
I?m going to keep this blog post technical because the emotions from yesterday?s events are still too difficult to deal with. Within an hour of the bombs going off, I received several emails asking me to comment on the use of social media in Boston and how it differed to the digital humanitarian response efforts I am typically engaged in. So here are just a few notes, nothing too polished, but some initial reactions.
The European Commission?s Tech All Stars competition returns to honor the EU?s best startups
from The Next Web by Martin Bryant
OKCupid partners with Coinbase to become the latest Web service to support Bitcoin
from The Next Web by Jon Russell
Study: Teens Watch More Mobile Video Than Older Peers
from Mashable! by Vignesh Ramachandran
Blowing up Morozov’s “To Save Everything, Click Here”
from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
Tim Wu has written an admirably economical and restrained review of Evgeny Morozov’s new book, “To Save Everything, Click Here.” I wrote a long critique of Morozov’s first book in 2011, and back then, I found myself unable to restrain myself from enumerating the many, many flaws in the book and its fundamental dishonesty, pandering and laziness. Wu has more discipline than I do, and limits himself to a much shorter, sharper and better critique of Morozov’s new one. It’s a must-read:
Cloud Computing has Already Changed the Internet
from The Next Web by Martha Pierce
