The future of the newspaper Digitalization is already part of the newspaper, both in terms of the production process and distribution. And the dual structure of print and digital media is likely to persist, write Thomas Steinfeld and Lothar Müller. The ultimate triumph of digital over print media is by no means imminent. … Read more
Take a Tour of Robocoin, the World’s First Bitcoin ATM Meet the Robocoin: the world’s first bitcoin ATM. It went live last night, after an afternoon of tinkering and testing at the downtown cafe that’s now its home. Online Anonymity Is Not Only for Trolls and Political Dissidents David Plotz: People have a misguided belief in it, … Read more
New Report: Internet Freedom Deteriorates Worldwide, but Activists Push Back Washington Broad surveillance, new laws controlling web content, and growing arrests of social-media users drove a worldwide decline in internet freedom in the past year, according to a new study released today by Freedom House. Nonetheless, Freedom on the Net 2013 also found that activists are becoming more … Read more
In the Silk Road Case, Don’t Blame the Technology The man alleged to be “Dread Pirate Roberts,” the founder and operator of the Silk Road?an online marketplace where bitcoins were traded for a range of goods and services, including drugs?was arrested by the FBI in San Francisco yesterday. The criminal complaint, released today, provides many details about … Read more
Schools reopen with boycotts in southeastern Turkey The new academic year starts for 17 million students in Turkey, with classes remaining empty in several southeastern cities Öcalan raises the bar in Turkey?s Kurdish bid The third round of dialogue between the Turkish government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) started less than a year … Read more
Can Twitter Go Public and Still Be a Champion of Free Speech? With Twitter set to make its debut on American stock exchanges, a critical question looms: Can toppling dictators also be good business? Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Online A new survey finds that most internet users would like to be anonymous online, but many … Read more
Livefyre acquires Storify to bolster its social storytelling capabilities Storify, the service that lets anyone curate social media conversations across Twitter, Facebook, and other mediums, has been acquired by Livefyre for an undisclosed sum. Storify sold to Livefyre in a merging of social curation toolsA tech startup with roots deeply entrenched in the journalism world … Read more
Facebook says 74 governments, including USA, demanded data on 38K users In the first half of 2013, agents of 74 different governments including our own demanded the personal data related to about 38,000 Facebook users. About half of these demands came from authorities in the United States. Facebook “is the latest technology company to release … Read more
Best of Ballmer: The products and moments that marked the tenure of Microsoft?s CEO Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced today that he will be stepping down from his position within the next 12 months. The change was somewhat unexpected and poses questions not only about his successor, but how the company should change and … 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
Covert Twitter Ops: Israel’s Latest (Mis)Adventure in Digital Diplomacy There’s a new front in the social media wars: Israeli university campuses. Q. & A.: Edward Snowden Speaks to Peter Maass Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters People hold masks with the face of Edward J. Snowden at a hearing in Brazil on the N.S.A.’s surveillance programs. Meet the … Read more
The Pirate Bay launched its own PirateBrowser last week. Here?s how it works The Pirate Bay celebrated 10 years of managing to keep itself online (as much to its own surprise, as anyone else?s) on Friday, and to mark the occasion, it released a special Web browser based on Firefox that includes a bundled Tor … Read more
Information authoritarians vs. ?information anarchists?: the silent (cyber) war that affects us all NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden finally leaves Moscow airport Hacking attack on Tor allegedly linked to SAIC and NSA The IP address linked to the hacking of Tor bundle has been traced back to that of Science Applications International Corp (a company investigated … Read more
72% of Online Adults are Social Networking Site Users The Pew Research Center‘s Internet & American Life Project has been studying online adults? social networking site use since 2005, and has seen substantial growth since then. Today, 72% of online adults use social networking sites. Although younger adults continue to be the most likely … Read more
One can confidently assume that we are living through minor exercises of Erdoğan’s Police State. Today there was no call for demonstrations in Taksim. It is now believed that this is state operation. At 19 no citizens showed up. But there was heavy police presence all over Taksim. at 19 the police entered streets close … Read more