Noviembre 2011
17 publicaciones nuevas
US court rules that Twitter users have no... →
Does the US government have the right to read you Twitter messages? Of course not, would be most people’s reaction. Unfortunately, thanks to a US district court ruling made on November 10, the US government can now compel Twitter to release information that most people would deem private, such as your IP address, the content of your direct messages and your session times and activities,...
The Ten Happiest Jobs (1. Clergy) and the ten most... →
Steve Denning: In my article on the Ten Most Hated Jobs, there were some surprises. There are also some surprises in the ten happiest jobs, as reported a General Social Survey by the National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago. (I am indebted to Lew Perelman for drawing my attention to the Christian Science Monitor article.)
1. Clergy: The least worldly are reported to be...
Like Twitter, Google Now Has Trending Topics →
(…) What’s more interesting about this development is its potential for future integration into Google Search.
Earlier this month, the company announced a change to its algorithm (the “freshness” update) which impacted 35% of searches. (…)
Occupy vs Tea Party: what their Twitter networks... →
According to some political commentators, Occupy Wall Street is the left’s answer to the Tea Party - driven by a similar anger towards elites. But the social networks of people tweeting about the two movements suggest that they have rather different dynamics.
Those tweeting about the Tea Party emerge as a tight-knit “in crowd”, following one another’s tweets. By...
Facebook Privacy: Site Confirms It Tracks You... →
In recent weeks, Facebook has been wrangling with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the social media website is violating users’ privacy by making public too much of their personal information.
Far more quietly, another debate is brewing over a different side of online privacy: what Facebook is learning about those who visit its website.
Facebook officials are now acknowledging...
Associated Press: More than half the countries... →
More than half the countries with freedom of information laws in place do not follow them, the Associated Press has found in an 11-month investigation into citizens’ rights to know what their governments are doing.
Having effectively used FOI requests in investigative stories in the US, especially at the state and local government level, the AP decided that such requests were a tool which...
A Much-Needed Challenge to Low-Quality... →
Like global warming, the growth of online higher education is the kind of trend whose steady progress will ultimately change the world. Just take a look at the latest numbers:
The annual Sloan Consortium report on online education in the United States was released last week, finding that 6.1 million American college students took at least one online course in Fall 2010 (that’s a half million...
Five Interesting Things Sean Parker Said Yesterday →
Napster’s cofounder and an early Facebook booster, Parker has plans to disrupt politics, and still has gripes with the music industry.
Sean Parker would be worth listening to even had a small part of his life where he helped get Facebook started not been dramatized in an Oscar-winning movie last year.
Before that, Parker had co-founded Napster, pitching the music industry into a tumult...
Dreamworks Wants to animate the Web, designs on... →
Jeffrey Katzenberg of DreamWorks animation has designs on making online communication more audio-visual.
You may think the Web is doing all right as it is, but Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of animation studio DreamWorks, thinks it’s too text-centric. Katzenberg told attendees here at the Techonomy conference in Tucson today that he has technology that will change that.
“Text is a...
Merkel Urges More Unified Continent:: Europe had... →
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany warned reluctant members of her conservative party in no uncertain terms on Monday that deeper political integration was necessary if Europe’s common currency was to be saved.
At the Christian Democratic Union’s annual congress here, Mrs. Merkel told her party that “not less Europe but more” was the answer to the sovereign debt crisis...
Acortar 80 millones de links diarios permite a... →
Bitly’s shortened links can forecast the next trend online—a partnership with VeriSign is about to boost that predictive power.
Thousands of people every day use the link-shortening service Bitly to tame unwieldy Web links to share on Twitter and other social media sites. Few realize that they’re simultaneously helping the New York company peer into the Web’s future.
Bitly...
China ups Internet censorship →
The number of new Internet users in China in the past three years exceeded more than the total number of Internet users in the USA today: that’s a lot of people.
Despite this enormous amount of Internet users, the Chinese government has resolved to further increase online censorship.
39 firms have agreed to cooperate with this latest attempt to “curb rumours” and prevent...
Why the Protest has gone Global: they are asking... →
The protest movement that began in Tunisia, spreading to Egypt and then Spain, has now gone global with the protests on Wall Street and across America.
Thanks to globalisation and modern technology, social movements now transcend borders as rapidly as ideas can. The common idea here is that the “system” has failed.
What’s the Big Idea?
At one level, the protesters ask for...
Sharing not stealing: issues of plagiarism in the... →
“Thou shalt not plagarise”. This phrase surely must be somewhere near the top of the ten commandments of journalism.
Hence in 2005, when David Simpson, then-cartoonist for The Tulsa World, was found to have redrawn somebody else’s work, the paper’s publisher Robert E. Lorton III dismissed him, saying he had committed “the cardinal sin of a newsroom”. The...
W. Hague, en la London Conference on Cyberespace:... →
(…) Britain has proposed a set of seven principles as a basis for more effective cooperation between states, business and organisations.
These are:
The need for governments to act proportionately in cyberspace and in accordance with international law;
The need for everyone to have the ability to access cyberspace, including the skills, technology, confidence and opportunity to do...
CJR, 50 aniversario: The Complications of our Age.... →
When the idea of a publication to be called the Columbia Journalism Review first came up, our founding editor tells us, some journalists and journalism professors were deeply opposed to the idea of turning the weapon of criticism on journalism itself. Doesn’t the craft require support rather than criticism? Doesn’t it have enemies enough?
Such questions still have life. Several months ago, at...
