Recently, Professor Sherry Turkle made a TED Talk. She argued: Turkle, a psychologist who leads MIT?s Initiative on Technology and Self, believes that while our constant communication and social media engagement does make us more connected, it?s coming at the sacrifice of real conversation. VIA Although I would agree with most of her observations and … Read more
Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously? from TorrentFreak by enigmax As detailed in yesterday?s article, if a VPN provider carries logs of their users? activities the chances of them not being able to live up to their claim of offering an anonymous service begins to decrease rapidly. There are dozens of VPN providers, many … Read more
Wikileaks Resources Wikileaks Resources 1. Wikileaks Events Calendar 2. Wikileaks Petitions 3. Support Wikileaks 4. Main Wikileaks Resources 5. Cablegate Resources 6. War Leaks 7. Frequent Falsehoods 8. Twitter Archive 9. Press Archive 10. Video Archive . . . Wikileaks Events Calendar (may take a minute to load) Please note, some events may be duplicated. … Read more
Egypt: Avaaz.org and Tor team up to fight the Internet blackout, you can help from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin by NickKristof: “pro-democracy protesters taking photos with soldiers on Tahrir. Hope they stay friendly. Egypt: Real Change Comes from the Street from OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY by John Stanton I commented some years ago on the troubles … Read more
For two days now we cannot access Youtube. Open DNS and Google Public DNS do not seem to work.. We are looking for new ways to bypass the censorship… p.s. Tor seems to be great for secure communication but not particularly good to access YouTube due its security measures. Maybe one should look into that.. … Read more
A few days ago, I got a Sony Reader as a gift from Ayhan. It is a way modest gadget compared to iPad but still I love it. It has immediately boosted my reading level which had been down lately. Well, with something like iPad, e-reading will be even more sensational, i guess…
from MediaShift
I had stopped shortly in a blogger/new media training session last Friday, that focused on Eurasian bloggers and new media people. You can check their work here:
Eurasian Stories | Digital Stories from Eurasia
and videos made in the workshop:
http://eurasianstories.blip.tv/
I have met Eric who works with a website called Sesawe. This site offers great tools and recommendations to circumvent web censorship. In their site:
| Yemen | Egypt | Syria | Cambodia | Kyrgyzstan | Moldova |
| France | North Korea | Kazakhstan | Morocco | Sri Lanka | China |
| Saudia Arabia | Ethiopia | Turkey | Belarus | Thailand | Sudan |
CHECK OUT MORE AT Sesawe
My brief notes from Eric’s speech: