WikiLeaks: From Collateral Murder to Collateral Recklessness Global Voices Online Image by WikiLeaks Mobile Information Collection Unit via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Linux Took Over the Web. Now, It’s Taking Over the World Wired Top Stories by Klint Finley 25 years after Linus Torvalds unveiled Linux, the free operating system is still finding new uses. The post … Read more
The Academic’s Guide to Social Media Author discusses book on how and why academics should use social media for scholarly purposes. July 22, 2016 By Carl Straumsheim Writing about social media is “dangerous,” according to Mark Carrigan, a sociologist and academic technologist at the University of Warwick, in Britain. In the time to take … Read more
#Turkey Conservative Ülke TV suggests "a new set of #Gezi protests could be organised using #PokemonGo" pic.twitter.com/fPLuNVNDWJ — Seref Isler (@seref_i) July 14, 2016 Turkey’s health ministry warns against Pokémon hunting at noon Turkey’s Health Ministry has warned against playing Pokémon Go between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., as long exposure to the hot sun … Read more
Turkey among initiators of significant UN resolution on Internet and human rights Turkey was one of the joint initiators of a significant resolution on “the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet” which was adopted at the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) on July 1. BitTorrent Protocol Turns 15 Years Old Today TorrentFreak “My … Read more
The Wild World of Telegram Stickers Global Voices Online by Kevin Rothrock Telegram sticker set based on Leningrad’s hit music video, “Exponat.” 8 MSN Messenger emoticons that should be emoji Mashable! by Johnny Lieu It’s rare for Microsoft products to invoke a pleasant sense of nostalgia, but MSN Messenger is a piece of software that does. The truth … Read more
KickassTorrents Enters The Dark Web, Adds Official Tor Address TorrentFreak With millions of visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) is currently the mostvisited torrent site on the Internet. Uber vs. Europe continues: Two executives convicted in France Mashable! A French court has convicted and fined Uber and two of its executives for deceptive commercial practices and illegal business … Read more
Two fifths of Europeans are digitally illiterate EurActiv.com by Catherine Stupp The European Commission wants to sink the 40% average of people who have little or no ability to use technology. Debate: The Euro 2016 in France: hopes, fears and celebrations euro|topics The Euro 2016 European football championship kicks off on Friday. A security force of 90,000 … Read more
Jacob Appelbaum, Tor developer and Wikileaks staffer, resigns amid sex abuse claims Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Appelbaum, whose work has put him in the crosshairs of his own government and foreign states, resigned from the Tor project on Friday, accompanied by a short note from Tor executive director Shari Steele. Tor Developer Jacob Appelbaum Resigns Amid … 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
What does the future of the BBC look like as a more diverse and distinctive organisation? Journalism.co.uk As the BBC’s current charter expires at the end of 2016, the government has drafted a white paper to outline key changes for the broadcaster’s future The BBC White Paper is a recipe for long-term decline open Democracy News Analysis … 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
How we fought webspam in 2015 Google Webmaster Central Blog by Google Webmaster Central Search is a powerful tool. It helps people to find, share, and access an amazing wealth of content regardless of how they connect or where they are located. As part of Google’s search quality team, we work hard to ensure that searchers … 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