Saturday, December 25th, 2010 03:07 pm GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs, Tips and Tricks by Reda Cherif
At the same time that the Internet grows, it Achilles’ Heel gets more exposed too. Therefore, the fact that the Internet is growing is neither good news, nor bad news. That’s purely factual.
Tags: blogs, communication, data management, google, internet, media, open source, wikileaks
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010 12:00 am GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs by Gabrielle Tang
Openleaks, started by former Wikileaks employe Daniel Domscheit-Berg, plans to launch as a rival website to Wikileaks…but with an actual value of transparency and accountability.
Tags: bbc, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, julian assange, openleaks, transparency, wikileaks
Monday, December 13th, 2010 05:22 pm GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs, Tubes by Jose L. Leyva
After a decade of struggle with the irruption caused by the Internet to the publishing industry, the magazine has been able to make money thanks its 5-million readership loyal to its online version. This contrasts with other magazines business models that rely on paywalls and closed content available online.
Saturday, December 11th, 2010 04:42 pm GMT -5 in News Briefs by Gabrielle Tang
Gizmodo, Gawker, and Lifehacker were all hacked by Anon. Claims that 1.5 million usernames/emails/passwords have been taken over…
Tags: gawker, gizmodo, hacked, lifehacker, twitter, wikileaks
Saturday, December 11th, 2010 12:19 pm GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs by Keren Ritchie
The founder of the new social network, Jumo, aims to do for charities what “Yelp” did for restaurants. Though he faces some stiff competition, he might just have a winning model.
Tags: community, New York Times, online giving, social media
Friday, December 10th, 2010 11:21 pm GMT -5 in News Briefs, Tubes by Keren Ritchie
The leaders of five major publishing companies are determined to prove that magazines are here to stay. Why? Because magazines, they argue, do what the Internet can’t.
Tags: digital, internet, magazines, New York Times
Friday, December 10th, 2010 10:10 pm GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs by Cecilie Mourits-Andersen
Germany has emerged as the most skeptical among the European nations in terms of the online privacy of citizens. But what is it about Europe’s biggest economy that makes it particularly critical towards online companies’ collection of user data?
Tags: germany, google, privacy, social media
Monday, December 6th, 2010 09:03 am GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs, Tips and Tricks by Reda Cherif
Logically speaking, if Wikileaks is a criminal organization, then the New York Times, El Pais, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and The Guardian are too (they have been working with criminals) and should be blamed for complicity.
Tags: advocacy, blogs, china, communication, internet, journalism, media, New York Times, open source, politics, social media, transparency, wikileaks
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 03:08 pm GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs, Tubes by Reda Cherif
Aware that Islam is the most volcanic taboo in Morocco’s society, M.A.L.Is did not choose provocation deliberately. What they were bent on doing was to act as the mirror of “the provocative contradictions of Morocco’s social, religious and institutional fabric.”
Tags: activism, advocacy, africa, blogs, censorship, communication, facebook, internet, journalism, media, politics, religion, social media, social networks, transparency
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 09:36 pm GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs by Emily Donnan
The Human Rights Campaign’s “Buying for Equality” iPhone application is adding one more thing for shoppers to think about as they enter the holiday shopping frenzy. Making a list and checking it twice will now have a social-conscience component as the human rights app enables shoppers to evaluate businesses upon their LGBT practices.
Tags: Buying for Equality, Human Rights Campaign, iPhone Applications, Joe Solomnese