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#Cyberculture agenda: “The technologies that would make the web more participatory…
The technologies that would make the web more participatory Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow The early web was heralded as a revolution in participatory media where everyone could make media as well... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: Research libraries in Germany announce boycott of Elsevier journals over open access….
Germany-wide consortium of research libraries announce boycott of Elsevier journals over open access Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Germany’s DEAL project, which includes over 60 major research institutions, has... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: KickassTorrents might be back at https://katcr.co/
KickassTorrents ex-staffers brought the torrent site back from the dead The Next Web by Mix Back in July, millions of pirates got their hearts broken when their go-to torrent site KickassTorrents suddenly shut... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: We might be exposed to a coordinated SM campaign in the #Aleppo drama…
Those “final messages” from Aleppo Syria look more like a coordinated social media campaign than a cry for [email protected] pic.twitter.com/GzASdXPwNU — IN THE NOW (@IntheNow_tweet) 14 Aralık 2016 Trump meets... Read more
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Journalism agenda: In 2016 Mobile continues its takeover…
The State of the News Media 2016: Mobile continues its takeover Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman Facebook, Snapchat, and other social platforms have dominated conversations around journalism over the past... Read more
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Journalism agenda: “How to find breaking news on Twitter…”How can journalists use Whatsapp for newsgathering
How to find breaking news on Twitter firstdraftnews.com by Alastair Reid By its very nature, breaking news happens unexpectedly. Simply waiting for something to start trending on Twitter is not an option for journalists... Read more
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Journalism agenda: With 40,000 paid subscribers, Dutch journalism platform The Correspondent becoming a success story….
‘The Correspondent’ is winning crowdfunded journalism with 40,000 paid subscribers The Next Web by Bryan Clark Today, Dutch journalism platform The Correspondent announced it just reached 40,000 paying members. The feat is... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: “Most popular programming languages shift at Github
Most popular programming languages shift at Github Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza Driven by the web and Android, Javascript and Java reign. Ruby and C lose ground. PHP lumbers on, impervious.... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: That’s what I have observing, too: “Teens abandoning Facebook
Study: Teens abandoning Facebook Teenagers are leaving Facebook. Why? Because their parents are on it. [Graudian] Euroteens embarrassed to be seen on Facebook But their parents insist they use it, so their personal lives can... Read more
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Cyberculture agenda: “a master list of the 10,000 worst passwords…Amazon’s drones…
Worst passwords (click to embiggen) Mark Burnett, whose work has been featured here before, has used lists of leaked passwords to compile a master list of the 10,000 worst passwords (with accompanying wordcloud,... Read more
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MPAA Claims Victory as isoHunt to shut down. Probably a Pyrrhic one… A Cyberculture roundup…
isoHunt Shuts Down After $110 Million Settlement With The MPAA For more than seven years isoHunt and the MPAA have been battling it out in court and today the case... Read more
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Journalism roundup: Q&A: Guardian social and community editor Joanna Geary heads off to Twitter U.K.
Rethinking shoe leather and professional boundaries in reporting ? and academia I was clueless about pretty much everything regarding academia and my field when I entered grad school three... Read more
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Journalism roundup: Al Jazeera America …The newsononics of Jeff Bezos?
Is Al Jazeera America Simply CNN, Minus Wolf Blitzer? It’s been just under a month since Al Jazeera America first hit the airwaves, and what a month it’s been —... Read more
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Jeff Bezos pays a visit to The Washington Post’s newsroom…
Jeff Bezos says The Washington Post can be successful if it adopts Amazon?s business philosophies Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has given his first interview since acquiring The Washington... Read more
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“Partner of NSA leaks journalist held for 9 hours… a Journalism roundup
Partner of NSA leaks journalist held for 9 hours The partner of the Guardian journalist who worked with Edward Snowden to expose US surveillance tactics was detained for almost nine... Read more
