powered by Skilled.co **** Improving Site Speed: Everything You Need to Know Social Media Today by Sam Warren Site speed is a critical consideration for all digital marketers – here are some key tips to help assess and improve your site. We Won’t Let You Forget It: Why We Oppose French Attempts to Export the Right … Read more
More thoughts from the Archaeology Division of the AAA- Publications, Blogging, and Making Conversations Count Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology by Jane Baxter Lynne Goldstein is a Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Campus Archaeology Program at Michigan State University. She is the outgoing Publications Director for the Archaeology Division of the AAA. … Read more
Digital News Initiative: second funding brings €24M to 124 projects across Europe The Official Google Blog by Ludovic BlecherHeadDNI Innovation Fund We are thrilled to announce the second round of funding of the Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund, Google’s €150m commitment to spark new thinking and give European news organisations of all sizes the space … Read more
Joi Ito interviews Barack Obama for Wired: machine learning, neurodiversity, basic research and Star Trek Boing Boing Joi Ito (previously) — director of MIT Media Lab, former Creative Commons chief, investor, entrepreneur, and happy mutant — interviewed Barack Obama for a special, Obama-edited issue of Wired Google Warns More Than a Dozen Russian Journalists and Activists … Read more
Facebook, Twitter, and 30 other orgs join First Draft’s partner network to help stop the spread of fake news Nieman Journalism Lab by Ricardo Bilton Thanks to social media, it’s never been easier to get people to read and spread fake news. Readers love to share surprising, shocking or worldview-affirming stories, and publishers, eager for more … Read more
Selfie Diplomacy- Analysis of MFA Profile Pictures on Twitter Exploring Digital Diplomacy by Ilan Manor Last week, as news of Brexit broke, foreign ministries throughout the world took to social media to comment on the UK’s decision to leave the EU. The German foreign ministry responded in two ways. First, it published a series of tweets … Read more
Kerry urges European leaders not to take revenge for Brexit EurActiv.com by Catherine Stupp John Kerry urged EU leaders today (27 June) not to “lose their heads” and take revenge on the United Kingdom, after its decision to quit the European Union Brexit reverberates BBC News | Europe | World Edition The prospect of Brexit-style referendums in … Read more
5 free tools for finding and verifying YouTube videos in news First Draft News by First Draft / With more than 500 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, Google’s video platform is still the most popular in the world for publicly sharing videos with the rest of humanity. Snapchat reportedly has more daily users than … Read more
Asia is leading the adoption of mobile adblocking; North America is dodging the bullet (for now, at least) Nieman Journalism Lab by Ricardo Bilton The rise of mobile adblocking may not be burning publishers in the U.S. so far, but the story is very different in Asia. Research highlights the impact of the threat of surveillance on … Read more
Untangling the Web: the NSA’s supremely weird, florid guide to the Internet Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Michael from Muckrock found a reference to “Untangling the Web,” an internal NSA guide to the Internet, on Google Books, so he requisitioned a copy from the NSA under the Freedom of Information Act. Decoding your Facebook newsfeed AL JAZEERA … Read more
I am Paul Rabinow, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. I write to urge you to watch this important new video where anthropologists who know something about the matter demonstrate how an academic boycott is ultimately personal. I am against the boycott. The distinction between a small community of anthropologists, the … Read more
Panama Papers whistleblower issues statement, naming and shaming failed states and institutions Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow “John Doe,” the mysterious whistleblower who released the largest-ever leak of confidential documents in world history — papers from the Panamanian law firm Mossack-Fonseca, a key player in the offshore dark money industry — has published their first-ever public … Read more
Why storytelling ‘is still everything’, despite new journalism tools Journalism.co.uk Journalist and producer Scott Rensberger reinforces the power of the story as reporters begin to experiment with mobile journalism tools and techniques Planning for news, misidentification and verification as a process Hi everyone, So this week we held the second in our series of free training … Read more
#Iceland April 4, 2016 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine RE-ELECTIONS LOOMING CLOSE AS ICELAND HITS A POLITICAL SCANDAL April 5, 2016 · by Stathis Leivaditis IT’S TIME FOR THE PIRATES April 6, 2016 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine THE SCHRÖDINGER’S PRIME MINISTER OF ICELAND April 6, 2016 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine PIRATE PARTY ICELAND POLLING AT 43%, ALMOST A MAJORITY April 7, … Read more
WhatsApp Launches End-to-End Encryption All Facebook by David Cohen WhatsApp upped its security game in a big way with this week’sannouncement that it now provides full end-to-end encryption. Co-founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton announced the news in a blog post, saying that users do not need to take any actions to activate end-to-end encryption, as it is now the … Read more