Based on the video’s transcript, here are the key highlights: The Return of Piracy: The video argues that a new wave of piracy is emerging, driven by a perception that modern streaming services are a “scam” due to increasing prices, the addition of ads, and a fragmented content landscape [00:12]. The Golden Age of Streaming … Read more
Facebook Journalism Project: A Complete Guide All Facebook by David Cohen Facebook’s efforts to bolster its relationships with media and news organizations and journalists continued with Wednesday’s introduction of the Facebook Journalism Project. Director of product Fidji Simo introduced Facebook Journalism Project in a Newsroom post, saying that the initiative has three objectives: collaborative development of news products … Read more
Information Overload Pew Internet Rss Feed: Reports Since the 1970s, the term “information overload” has captured society’s anxiety about the growth in the production of information having potentially bad consequences for people as they struggle to cope with seemingly constant streams of messages and images. The advent of the internet, it was thought, would only … Read more
Meryl Streep’s Two Anthropological Truths And One Lie Forbes The internet and news media are taking actress Meryl Streep to task today for anthropological sounding comments she made to reporters at the Berlin International Film Festival. While part of what she said was true and even elegant, another part was a … Meryl Streep says … Read more
EDRi identifies key challenges to freedom of expression online Yeni Medya On 13 November 2014, EDRi met with the European External Action Service (EEAS) for a civil society consultation on the EU Human Rights Guidelines on Freedom of Expression Online and Offline. The EEAS aims at improving the Guidelines in the future and was seeking input … Read more
Twitter’s transparency reports are now available in 10 languages The Next Web by Natt Garun Since launching its first transparency report in 2012, it has been Twitter’s aim to ensure users from around the globe can access this information in a clear and straightforward way. Cowardly U.S. theaters refuse to show ‘The Interview’ after free speech threats Boing Boing … Read more
Leak Exposes Hollywood’s Global Anti-Piracy Strategy TorrentFreak The Sony Pictures leak has caused major damage to the Hollywood movie studio, but the fallout doesn’t end there. Contained in one of the leaked data batches is a complete overview of the MPAA’s global anti-piracy strategy for the years to come. Google moves engineers out of Russia BBC … Read more
Machine-Learning Algorithm Ranks the World’s Most Notable Authors MIT Technology Review Deciding which books to digitise when they enter the public domain is tricky; unless you have an independent ranking of the most notable authors. Revealed: The Lost Chapter of Interstellar Wired Top Stories by Christopher Nolan & Sean Gordon Murphy Before Cooper left his daughter … Read more
Statement on the Use of Finfisher by Members of the Freedom Online Coalition EFF.org Updates by Jillian York Documents recently released by WikiLeaks have brought new evidence to the public eye that the intrusive surveillance spyware FinFisher may be in use by several members of theFreedom Online Coalition, including Mongolia, Netherlands, and Estonia.1 If this … Read more
Opposition deputy slams choice of Julianne Moore to promote Turkey An opposition deputy has slammed the choice of a Hollywood star for ‘using a woman?s body to promote the country’ *************** Inquiétudes sur les émergents : la Turquie dévisse L?Opinion (France) 30 Jan 2014, p. 1 Pascal Airault et Cyrille Lachevre Les devises … Read more
Take a Tour of Robocoin, the World’s First Bitcoin ATM Meet the Robocoin: the world’s first bitcoin ATM. It went live last night, after an afternoon of tinkering and testing at the downtown cafe that’s now its home. Online Anonymity Is Not Only for Trolls and Political Dissidents David Plotz: People have a misguided belief in it, … Read more
Bir Boşluk ve Hiçlik Senfonisi: Yerçekimi Aslı TUNÇ Savrulmak önce, devasa, uçsuz bucaksız kozmozda, tek başınıza savrulmak? sizi tutan, bir yere bağlayan hiçbir şey olmaksızın, öylesine, tekinsiz ve anlık. Sonra o mutlak sessizlikte süzülmek… Bu sessizlik sadece denizin derinliklerinde olanla ölçüşebilir, ötesi yok. Etrafınız hiçlikle kaplanmışsa yaşama tutunmanın ne anlamı vardır oysa? İşte bu varoluşsal … Read more
Kickstarter comes of age as crowd-funded documentary ?Inocente? wins Academy Award from The Next Web by Josh Ong How an iPhone App Made An Oscar-Nominated Film Possible from Mashable! by Emily Price 25 Oscar GIFs That Deserve Their Own Award from Mashable! by Neha Prakash Entire Oscars Show Posted Online for First Time Ever from … Read more
?Occupy Valentine?s Day? Tumblr Protests the Romantic Industrial Complex from Mashable! by Christine Erickson VeriSign, pillar of Internet security, hacked from Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder VeriSign Inc., the company responsible for assuring that more than half the world?s websites are authentic, was hacked multiple times in 2010, and the thieves succeeded in stealing … Read more