Rating Obama?s NSA Reform Plan: EFF Scorecard Explained Earlier today, President Obama announced a series of reforms to address abuses by the National Security Agency. We were heartened to see Obama recognized that the NSA has gone too far in trampling the privacy rights of people worldwide. In his speech, the President ensured that National Security … Read more
Pew: One in three Americans owns a tablet, one in four owns an e-reader, and 43% have one or the other One in three Americans now owns a tablet, or 35 percent of the population aged 16 and older. At the same time, one in four US citizens at least 16-years-old now owns an e-reader. Mixing … Read more
One of the viral memes in the social web…. Name Fail: The Media?s Most Embarrassing Obama/Osama Gaffes by Sarah Kessler Tweeting Bin Laden: Have US Journalists Become Citizen Reporters? by Asteris Masouras When news of Osama bin Laden’s death broke on May 2, 2011 journalists in the United States were tweeting and using social media … Read more
Osama bin Laden, who was killed by the US on Monday 2 May. Photograph: AP DE MOORTIUS NIL NISI MALE? Now that Osama bin Ladin is killed, I?m certainly not going to quote ?Dubya? Bush and say ?the world is a better place?, as he did when he?d hanged Saddam. Let us not beat around … Read more