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Hell yeah! WordPress Is 10 Years Old

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WordPress Is Now 10 Years Old Ten years ago today, the first public release of WordPress became available. Initially started as a fork of the little-known blogging platform b2/Cafelog, WordPress has grown to be the largest CMS in the world, powering an astounding 18% of the web   WordPress is 10 years old today: Here?s … Read more

Pew Report: Teens still use Facebook and know about privacy settings… A Cyberculture roundup…

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Teens, Social Media, and Privacy: New Survey Findings from Pew and the Berkman Center Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of that information. Despite taking these privacy-protective actions, … Read more

“Marissa Mayer?s first 300 days as Yahoo?s CEO… A cyberculture roundup…

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Turnaround: Marissa Mayer?s first 300 days as Yahoo?s CEO Yahoo has been plagued by leadership changes among its C-level positions for years. Many of its CEOs have been struggling to find ways to either cut down on cost or innovate on products, but none appear to have been able to turn the company?s performance and … Read more

New Cybersecurity Proposal in US, Google and Ramadan Traditions, Digg news and more.. Cyberculture roundup..

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New Cybersecurity Proposal Patches Serious Privacy Vulnerabilities from EFF.org Updates by Rainey Reitman and Lee Tien For months, we?ve been raising the alarm about the serious civil liberties implications of the cybersecurity bills making their way through the Senate. Hours ago, we received some good news. A new bill called the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 … Read more

from MediaShift: 5 emerging trends for Public Media 2.0

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5 Emerging Trends That Give Hope for Public Media 2.0 from MediaShift The Public Media 2.0 series on MediaShift is sponsored by American University’s Center for Social Media (CSM) through a grant from the Ford Foundation. Learn more about CSM’s research on emerging public media trends and standards at futureofpublicmedia.net. Public media is facing the … Read more

“Facebook increases face-to-face socializing” and a roundup….

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Yahoo?s Acquisition Strategy: Technology, Content and Users (Plus Moms and Babies) from Mashable! by Ben Parr The New Facebook Messages: A Walkthrough [SCREENSHOTS] from Mashable! by Ben Parr Study: Facebook increases face-to-face socializing from All Facebook by Meredith Singer Do you ever worry about your preference to message a friend over Facebook then talk to … Read more

from Ethan: how to fight net-censorship

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Beyond breaking firewalls: how to fight net-censorship

from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Ethan Zuckerman’s new piece on Worldchanging, “Internet Freedom: Beyond Circumvention,” looks at the technical and social limitations of circumvention of censoring firewalls that we love so much as a tool for helping people in repressive regimes liberate themselves. It’s an excellent and thought-provoking piece that raises more questions than it answers, but it points to some very meaty research problems that people who care about technology and freedom need to attend to.

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“Ebook checklist from Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

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Ebook checklist from EFF

from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

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