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
Monday, December 13th, 2010 12:28 pm GMT -5 in Content by Erika Whillas
What does Purpose do? Creates powerful movements that impact the political process and solve global problems.
Tags: activism, communication, media, mobilization, social media, social networks, technology
Sunday, December 12th, 2010 10:59 pm GMT -5 in Content by Cecilie Mourits-Andersen
The debate about Wikileaks is becoming increasingly polarized. Sadly, few seem to argue for the middle path.
Tags: media, politics, public debate, transparency, wikileaks
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
Monday, November 29th, 2010 11:47 am GMT -5 in Content by Reda Cherif
Ask children in rural Kenya working with their parents in community fields what their hobbies are, I’m not sure you’d get answers such as “photo”, “horse-riding”,”bird watching”.
Tags: africa, communication, data management, development, facebook, imperialism, internet, media, numeric divide, social media, social networks
Monday, November 22nd, 2010 10:41 am GMT -5 in News Briefs by Gabrielle Tang
The arrest of a woman in China for reposting a shorter-than-140-character message is just another example of China’s repression of online expression.
Tags: activism, blogs, censorship, china, facebook, internet, media, regulation, social networks, twitter
Monday, November 8th, 2010 11:57 pm GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs, Tubes by Reda Cherif
The first issue of the magazine, which was posted in July 2010, clearly announced the type of target the Jihadi editors were looking for: provide bomb instructions and offer English translation of Osama Bin-Laden speeches to young American and British readers.
Tags: al-qaeda, blogs, branding, communication, internet, Jihad, marketing, media, social media, social networks, terrorism
Sunday, November 7th, 2010 03:06 pm GMT -5 in Content, Tubes by Reda Cherif
My trip to Cuba was an amazing opportunity to compare the two systems – the Free West and The Tropical Communism- through the prism of Digital Age, Web 2.0 and Social Networks.
It is so different and so similar at the same time.
Tags: blogs, censorship, communication, computation, data management, facebook, google, internet, media, network neutrality, New York Times, social media, social networks, technology
Sunday, October 17th, 2010 01:35 pm GMT -5 in News Briefs, Tubes by Keren Ritchie
Remember the days when a blackberry was just a fruit and the iPhone had yet to enter our lexicon? In his new children’s story, aptly titled, “It’s a Book,” Lane Smith revives the disappearing ink-on-paper era.
Tags: book, electronic age, media, New York Times, youtube