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#journalism agenda: Google on an international framework for digital evidence…Facebook wants to embrace great journalism [despite its algorithms…

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Facebook wants to embrace great journalism — try telling that to their algorithms Mashable! by Jason Abbruzzese Facebook’s in the midst of a serious campaign to convince everyone how much it cares about journalism. Even at F8, the company’s giant developer conference taking place this week, it’s saucing on the charm. An international framework for digital evidence  The … Read more

Journalism agenda: “10 video formats to tell stories from your mobile phone”

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10 video formats to tell stories from your mobile phone  Journalism.co.uk Mobile journalism expert Robb Montgomery explains the wide range of videos that can be produced by reporters for social media The murky future of Hungary’s private media AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) We take a look at the bleak picture presented by members of Hungary’s private … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Changing World Cup fans [in Facebook], “The brief history of Facebook apologizing…”The Amazon Hachette War

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  Changing World Cup fans  FlowingData » Visualization by Nathan Yau Shan Carter and Kevin Quealy for the Upshot have a look at sports fandom once again using Facebook usage as a proxy. This time they examined shifting fan support during the World Cup. Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On – The … Read more

Cyberculture & Journalism agenda: new Tow Center report on data journalism…

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  Read some of the smartest thinkers on data journalism in this new Tow Center report  Nieman Journalism Lab by Justin Ellis In order to consider the future of data journalism, you have to start by looking at the past. Alex Howard, a fellow at The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, has a new report … Read more

Journalism roundup: Paywalls are not a cure-all.. “The newsonomics of The Guardian?s new ?Known? strategy

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Bill Keller, The Marshall Project, and making single-focus nonprofit news sites work   ?When you have a startup, one of the most challenging things is to establish yourself as a credible news organization,? Neil Barsky, founder of a new news nonprofit focused on criminal justice issues, told me.One quick route there: Hire Bill Keller. That?s … Read more

the crypto standard that the NSA sabotaged.. Cyberculture roundup…

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This the the crypto standard that the NSA sabotaged The New York Times has published further details of last week’s leaked documents detailing the NSA’s program of sabotage to crypto products and standards. The new report confirms that the standard that the NSA sabotaged was the widely-suspected NIST Dual EC DRBG standard. The Times reports … Read more

“the story behind the explosive NSA Bullrun scoop…”Appelbaum, Campbell, Rusbridger on NSA and mass surveillance.. Cyberculture roundup…

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ProPublica journalist explains the story behind the explosive NSA Bullrun scoop This week, The Guardian broke a sensational news story that revealed the NSA?s $250 million-a-year ?Bullrun? program that is apparently responsible for putting backdoors into consumer software for the purpose of monitoring. Appelbaum, Campbell, Rusbridger on NSA and mass surveillance | Wikileaks on spies … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Internet Encryption under massive threat…

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US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet theguardian.com ? James Ball ? 9/5/13 12:00 PM ? US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails, according … Read more

Tor network gets a major hit… A cyberculture roundup…

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A technical explanation here. Feds bring down Tor-hosted child porn site using suspected vulnerability in Firefox browser The US government has successfully taken down one of the Internet?s largest child porn sites, following a program that cracked security on a service that enables anonymous Internet browsing and site hosting. Twitter Reveals Data About the U.S. Government … Read more