Cyberculture agenda: “HTTP error code 451 for Internet censorship… “ten-part series on surveillance & corruption…”Twitter Bots and Activists…

IETF approves HTTP error code 451 for Internet censorship Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow The 451 HTTP error code, first proposed in 2012 as a tribute to Ray Bradbury’s classic novel is now an IETF standard and is the preferred error message for a server to send to a browser when content is blocked for legal … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: The new HTTP/2 finalized. – the first major change to HTTP in 16 years…

The new HTTP/2 spec ushers in hopes for a faster web  Mashable! by Christina Warren HTTP, or the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, is a central part of the World Wide Web. On Wednesday, Mark Nottingham, the chai HTTP/2, the first major change to HTTP in 16 years, has been finalized  The Next Web by Owen Williams Here is … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Twitter’s Innovator Patent Agreement… Googe abandoning Open Standards for Instant Messaging

Twitter builds internal guidelines for handling legal battles over patents Twitter officially patented its ?pull-to-refresh? technology for streaming on its mobile app today, The Verge reports. But Twitter also has an original, internal approach to patent applications.     Twitter Launches Innovator?s Patent Agreement With patent trolls and patent wars creating a massive drag on … Read more