Microsoft seems to have killed it:( Skype, a revolutionary app for borderless communication, was created by a group of friends and Scandinavian entrepreneurs in Estonia. Summarized by Merlin App: 00:00 Skype revolutionized communication across borders with its app 02:02 Skype’s success was due to the team’s experience with peer-to-peer technology and their ability to captivate … Read more
Turkey, propaganda and eyewitness media: A case study in verification for news First Draft News by Eyewitness Media Hub It was around 10:15 pm in Turkey on July 15th when messages started to go around about “strange events taking place in Istanbul and Ankara”. A terrorist attack, some said. A coup attempt, said others. It quickly … Read more
Head of Facebook in Europe to be investigated in Germany for allowing racist posts The Next Web by Ben Woods Facebook’s relationship with the content its users post and the balancing act it needs to pull off to allow free speech (but remove hate speech) is a tricky one. Today, it’s in hot water with German … Read more
Web Freedom Is Seen to Be Growing as a Global Issue in 2015 nytimes.com – Vindu Goel – Jan 1 – SAN FRANCISCO — Government censorship of the Internet is a cat-and-mouse game. And despite more aggressive tactics in recent months, the cats have been largely frustrated while the mice wriggle away. But this year, … Read more
Peace and Democracy Party asks Facebook to reopen its official pages BDP officials met with Facebook representatives requesting them to reopen their pages No, the Government Never Asked Linus Torvalds for a Backdoor in Linux Contrary to some online reports, Linus Torvalds, a founder of Linux, was never asked by the U.S. government … Read more
A code of conduct for young hackers r00tz is the amazing kid-track of programming at DEFCON, the giant hacker conference held annually in Las Vegas. The organizers have created a “code of conduct” for young hackers that is good advice for anyone doing infosec work, or exploring computers and systems: MIT and Aaron Swartz’s Secret … Read more
What Google+ adds to news by Jeff Jarvis To paraphrase Mark Zuckerberg, it is too soon to know what Google+ is. But I?ve been trying to imagine how it will and won?t be useful to news. You should add rock salt to anything I say, as I thought Google Wave would be an important journalistic … Read more
Bu gece Taksim’de Ayşe Paşalı’yı anma eylemi var. Ayşe Paşalı kimdi diyenlere: buyrun. Bir sansür haberi daha. Nü Sözlük de gitti… 15 Mayıs sansür karşıtı eylem bilgileri burada. BTK’nın abuk subuk açıklamalarına karşı açıklamalar burada. Bu arada ABD’nin yeni oyuncağı internet özgürlüğü. Bunun için fon ayırmaya devam. 15 Mayıs ayrıca Dünya Vicdani Red günü. Program … Read more