The Pirate Bay finds a new server and continues to survive! The Pirate Bay to RIAA: We Are Unsinkable from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder We must admit we?ve predicted The Pirate Bay?s downfall ages ago, but it still hasn?t happened. Things were indeed looking grim for the file sharing service: first, there was the lawsuit … Read more
“To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. Facebook says it wants to offer precise controls for sharing on the Internet. Related Article »…. ******* Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated from apophenia by zephoria From day one, Mark Zuckerberg wanted Facebook to … Read more
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated “rms“,[1] is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project[2] to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project’s lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software … Read more
Blog Blame Game
Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism
In many weeks, there are stark differences between the social and mainstream media news agendas. But last week, the same two stories that dominated the traditional press ? the attempted bombing in New York?s Times Square and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ? also drew the most attention in the blogosphere.
I wouldn’t call them hackers. Some folks discovered a way to make everyone they want follow themselves, and they even made this trick public.
it looks like the Turkish guy was an Accept fan:
via A story about the Semantic Web Interviews with: Tim Berners-Lee Clay Shirky Chris Dixon David Weinberger Nova Spivack Jason Shellen Lee Feigenbaum John Hebeler Alon Halevy David Karger Abraham Bernstein
by Michael Wesch Prof. Wesch: presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation. This is the result. more info: http://mediatedcultures.net *** Cultural Anthropology?s Virtual … Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQTxZ_zxAv8 The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies explains how YouTube makes it easy to dispute a wrongful copyright claim. For more information on the YouTube takedown process, visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation at http://meme.ly/DisputeYoutube For more on Fair Use in Online Video see the Center for Social Media at http://meme.ly/KnowFairUse To read more about the … Read more
[ad#Nokia N8] In this exclusive preview the Nokia N8 is showcased by hand freestyler Max Vlassenko. [ad#Samsung 3D TV] A new dimension in television By: Samsung UK [ad#Hadouken!] Hadouken!’s James Smith and Alice Spooner meet Matt Edmondson in a shopping centre to test their appeal with a brand new audience and further the band’s career. … Read more
The Berkman Center is pleased to announce the release of a new paper exploring U.S. political blogs:
A Tale of Two Blogospheres: Discursive Practices on the Left and the Right, by Yochai Benkler, Aaron Shaw, and Victoria Stodden
This paper compares the practices of discursive production and participation among top U.S. political blogs on the left, right, and center during the summer of 2008 and, based on qualitative coding of the top 155, finds evidence of an association between ideological affiliation and the technologies, institutions, and practices of participation across political blogs. Sites on the left adopt more participatory technical platforms; are comprised of significantly fewer sole-authored sites; include user blogs; maintain more fluid boundaries between secondary and primary content; include longer narrative and discussion posts; and (among the top half of the blogs in the papers’ sample) more often use blogs as platforms for mobilization as well as discursive production.
The variations observed between the left and right wings of the U.S. political blogosphere provide insights into how varied patterns of technological adoption and use within a single society may produce distinct effects on democracy and the public sphere. The study also suggests that the prevailing techniques of domain-based link analysis used to study the political blogosphere to date may have fundamental limitations.
To read the full abstract and download the paper, visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2010/Tale_Two_Blogospheres_Discursive_Practices_Left_Right
Also, The Nation has published a piece about the study, as well as an interview with Yochai Benkler.
A workshop on Turkey internet related 5651 article is taking place. This seems to be a major event as can be seen from the impressive list of participants. Major actors of Turkish internet infrastructure… Still, the official website is only in Turkish…
In other news:
AP Stylebook Officially Changes “Web site” to “website” from Writerswrite.com’s Writer’s Blog The story of how Facebook and Twitter users lobbied the AP Stylebook to change ?web site? to ?website? from Bloggasm by Simon On the day the AP Stylebook announced it would change the requirement that its users refer to online destinations as ?web … Read more
Online Journalists Make Pulitzer History from Mashable! by Jolie O’Dell Today, a cartoonist for SFGate.com, the online arm of the San Francisco Chronicle, and an investigative journalist at ProPublica won Pulitzer Prizes for their work. The reason we?ve dubbed these wins ?history-making? is because this is the first time any online-only publication has won the … Read more