This mini-documentary details the rapid rise and dramatic fall of Netscape Communications Corporation, the company that popularized the World Wide Web. It covers its historic, record-breaking 1995 IPO, the groundbreaking technologies its engineers invented, and its eventual defeat in the first “browser war” when Microsoft aggressively bundled Internet Explorer into Windows for free. Key Takeaways … Read more
Information authoritarians vs. ?information anarchists?: the silent (cyber) war that affects us all NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden finally leaves Moscow airport Hacking attack on Tor allegedly linked to SAIC and NSA The IP address linked to the hacking of Tor bundle has been traced back to that of Science Applications International Corp (a company investigated … Read more
Arguing for a new genre: ?JavaScript journalism? Ray Daly of The Washington Post has been writing JavaScript since the 1990s. In May, hespoke at JSConf about ?JavaScript journalism? ? the idea that just as it took some time for photojournalism to be respected as a distinct field, it?s now proper to define JavaScript journalism as its own thing, a … Read more