Wikipedia Mulls Total Blackout to Oppose SOPA by ErnestoLater this week, the Senate?s House Judiciary Committee will vote on the ?Stop Online Piracy Act? (SOPA). Supporters of the bill say it?s needed to safeguard the interests of rightsholders who claim their businesses are threatened by online piracy. Those opposing are worried that the unprecedented censorship … Read more
6 Tips to Support Digital News Through Advertising from MediaShift This is the first in a series of columns on new business models for news and other media. You’ll be able to find other stories in the series by clicking on the Business Models tag. One of the toughest ways to support a digital news operation is … Read more
Many Facebook friends of mine posted profile photos related to 10 November, anniversary of Atatürk‘s death… Facebook 10 Kasım profil fotoları
SOPA: Hollywood Finally Gets A Chance to Break the Internet from EFF.org Updates by corynne As promised, here?s the first installment of our closer review of the massive piece of job-killing Internet regulation that is the Stop Online Piracy Act. We?ll start with how it could impact Twitter, Tumblr, and the next innovative social network, … Read more
Dün Foucault’nun doğum günüydü. Ağır deli, kendinden emin, ayrıntılarda gizemi ve kendini bulan, bu yüzden de çılgıncasına hayran olduğum insandır, Foucault. Delirmeyi anlamak için deliren, ölümü anlayabilmek için kendini yoldan geçen bir arabanın önüne atan, cinselliği kavramak için her çeşit ilişkiye giren ve bundan zerre pişmanlık duymayan anlaşılması zor bir adamdan bahsediyorum. Bana göre her … Read more
Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously? from TorrentFreak by enigmax As detailed in yesterday?s article, if a VPN provider carries logs of their users? activities the chances of them not being able to live up to their claim of offering an anonymous service begins to decrease rapidly. There are dozens of VPN providers, many … Read more
Honestly, visa requirements are so annoying that I have given up goin’ to Europe (conferences etc…) **************** Turkey finds Israeli soldiers via Facebook by Fréderike Geerdink ISTANBUL ? The Turkish secret service made a list of 174 names of Israeli soldiers involved in the attack on the Mavi Marmara aid ship to Gaza last year, … Read more
Why Yandex Chose Turkey As Its New Frontier With Google? Andy Atkins-Krüger Since their highly successful IPO in May this year when Yandex?s shares increased in value 55% on day one and raised $1.3 billion, the speculation (especially from me) has not been when the company would launch into new markets ? but which … Read more
Guardian denies responsibility for unredacted cables from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza The Guardian released a statement today assailing Wikileaks’ accusation that one of its reporters published the password to an unredacted set of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables. The newspaper admits publishing the password, but says it was assured that the files encrypted with it … Read more
Teenager said to be LulzSec?s Topiary bailed by Rob Beschizz a Photo: Tim Bradshaw of the Financial Times. Jake Davis, the 18-year-old Briton accused by police of being Lulz Security spokestweeter Topiary, is out on bail. Paul Sawers writes: French copyright enforcers: ?Pirates are big spenders on legit content? by Cory Doctorow HADOPI, the French … Read more
News of the World Whistleblower Found Dead from Mashable! by Todd Wasserman A former News of the World reporter who connected former NOTW editor Andy Coulson to phone hacking by his staff has been found dead. How Journalists Are Using Facebook to Share the News from Mashable! by Lauren Drell Shirky: Cheap, free, chaotic … 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
What Google+ adds to news by Jeff Jarvis To paraphrase Mark Zuckerberg, it is too soon to know what Google+ is. But I?ve been trying to imagine how it will and won?t be useful to news. You should add rock salt to anything I say, as I thought Google Wave would be an important journalistic … Read more
Why You Can?t Say ?Twitter? Or ?Facebook? On French TV by Christina Warren Television and radio personalities in France can no longer say ?Twitter? or ?Facebook? on the air unless it?s in a news story about those specific companies, according to a decree from the French broadcasting authority CSA. The Facebook Effect on Relationships [INFOGRAPHIC] … Read more
How Social Media Helps Journalists Break News from Social Media Examiner by Rich Brooks Civic Disobedience and the Arab Spring from …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan I spent the past two days in Cambridge, primarily around MIT, and almost exclusively talking about the ?Arab Spring? and what we?ve learned about social media and protest … Read more