New research: Most top torrents are monitored, your IP address can be logged within three hours from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski If you?ve downloaded a popular torrent in the last three years, you may have had your IP address logged and your activities monitored, according to new research. Computer scientists from the University … Read more
Recently, Professor Sherry Turkle made a TED Talk. She argued: Turkle, a psychologist who leads MIT?s Initiative on Technology and Self, believes that while our constant communication and social media engagement does make us more connected, it?s coming at the sacrifice of real conversation. VIA Although I would agree with most of her observations and … Read more
Advertisers Announce Boycott of UK Tabloid on Twitter by Todd Wasserman MAIN FOCUS: Hacking scandal compromises Murdoch | 08/07/2011 from euro|topics Rupert Murdoch’s US-based concern News Corp on Thursday announced the closure of the British tabloid News of the World. Journalists on the newspaper have been accused among other things of hacking into the telephones … Read more
JOURNAL: Cell Phone Coordination of Open Source Protests from Global Guerrillas by John Robb Here’s a cool little phone app called Sukey to help people navigate during a protest/riot. Very useful in avoiding kettling (a slang term for police crowd containment). Check out the tutorial. What Is Data Privacy Day? [INFOGRAPHIC] from Mashable! by Sarah … 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.
When asked how they collect information about people they plan to hire, 43% of European human resources professionals surveyed reply that they analyse the online reputation of the candidate, mainly through search engines, social networking websites, personal sites and blogs.
