181,000 drones have been registered with the FAA in just 14 days The Next Web by Matthew Hussey Over the holidays, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) made drone owners register their vehicles. Since that announcement, more than 180,000 drones have been added to the FAA’s database, says CNN. Dutch reject ‘encryption backdoors’ BBC News | Europe | World Edition The … Read more
Negotiating the WSIS+10 and the Future of the Internet Dipnote – U.S. Department of State Official Blog by Daniel Sepulveda After two and a half years of technical analysis and discussions, six months of deliberations among all stakeholders, and intense negotiations at the United Nations, at three o’clock in the morning on December 12, 2015, the … Read more
The Unbearable Horror of Corporate Instagram Hashtags The prolific, epidemic, and ineffective attempt to reach young, hip, millennial consumers. in Matter, by Alana Hope Levinson STUDY: Rumors of Facebook’s Demise Among Teens Exaggerated All Facebook by David Cohen Despite the continuous flow of reports claiming that teens are done with Facebook, a new report from Pew … Read more
The Pirate Bay Is Back Online! TorrentFreak Early December The Pirate Bay was raided at the Nacka station, a nuclear-proof data center built into a mountain complex near Stockholm. The Pirate Bay returns from the dead, comes back online The Next Web by Owen Williams Following a raid on a Swedish data center late last year, … Read more
snowden on games xirdalium Here is a passage from chapter two of ↑Glenn Greenwald‘s excellent newest book “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State” (2014), which I’ve recently read: Seven things you should know about Tor Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Tor (The Onion Router) is a military-grade, secure tool for increasing the privacy and anonymity … Read more
İngilizce ve Türkçe çevrimiçi araçlar serilerimi şimdi parça parça yapmaya karar verdim. En son genel listeyi T24 için yapmıştım: Öğrencilerim için çevrimiçi araçlar Aşağıdaki liste yalnızca Twitter araçları üzerine yoğunlaşıyor. Bazı web hizmetleri Twitter dışında da kullanılabilir. Başka bölümlerde yeniden adlarını verebilirim ama şimdilik Twitter üzerinden gidelim. Aşağıdaki liste tabi ki en doğru liste olamaz. … Read more
The real reason Google wants to kill RSS Marco Arment: RSS represents the antithesis of this new world: it?s completely open, decentralized, and owned by nobody, just like the web itself. It allows anyone, large or small, to build something new and disrupt anyone else they?d like because nobody has to fly six salespeople out … Read more
How long should we expect Google Keep to last? from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Close of Google Reader: Google’s Dark Side? from Global Voices Online by Sally Seward Last week Google annouced that on July 1 it will close its RSS feed reader service, known as Google Reader. Google Reader, like other feed readers … Read more
RIP Google Reader from Mashable! by Christina Warren Fan Site Demands Google Reader Be Brought Back from Mashable! by Anita Li Check Out These Google Reader Alternatives from Mashable! by Christina Warren Hey Google, We Still Love Reader from Mashable! by Chris Taylor Quick Thoughts on Google Reader and Social Networks by Kevin Bondelli With … Read more
Tumblr users give Congress an earful about SOPA by Cory Doctorow Tumblr has rounded up the effects of its participation in American Censorship Day, a global day of protest of the prosed Stop Online Piracy Act, the worst proposed Internet law in American legislative history. Tumblr users did themselves very proud indeed: Joe Biden: SOPA … Read more