January 2010
10 posts
American news bankrupted and lobotomized, replaced... →
azspot:
Foreign bureaus have been among the hardest hit by cost-cutting measures in print and television media alike. According to the Pew Research Center’s annual State of the News Media report, coverage of international events by American media fell by about 40 percent in 2008. Thus has a bizarre situation arisen: at the most interconnected time in history, accurate and comprehensive news of...
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iisabelle:
pythoness:
“We have received hundreds of thousands of pages from corrupt banks, the US detainee system, the Iraq war, China, the UN and many others that we do not currently have the resources to release. You can change that and by doing so, change the world. Even $10 will pay to put one of these reports into another ten thousand hands and $1000, a million.”
Wikileaks has shut...
“In what could be seen as a new front in cyber diplomacy or a naive gesture,...”
– US embassy seeks Iraqi fans on Facebook - Yahoo! News
umm yeah
(via clingtomymouth)
Oxford University bans Spotify from its network →
itsthemusicpeople:
infoneernet:
The IT department at Oxford University in the UK banned access to the free and unlimited streaming music service Spotify because it eats up too much bandwidth. While students who use Spotify are in an uproar over the ban, the Oxford University Computer Services (OUCS) defends its decision, saying a network upgrade is justified only by a “genuine academic...
“This is not simply about aggregating or curating content to create personalized...”
– Boyd, Danah. 2009. “Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media.” Web2.0 Expo. New York, NY: November 17. (via malheiro) (via notational)
How The New York Times Should Contruct Its Paywall →
(via soupsoup)
Music and Tech Recap for December 2009 (With a...
gcn:
by Gabriel Nijmeh (@gcn1)
Another year has passed and we can only hope and more importantly work towards making the new year and new decade in the music business less tumultuous and one where the the disruptive forces of change are embraced for the sake of the artists and fans. Because it’s about the music, isn’t?
Now more than ever we need to keep the focus on two important groups:...
Obama confidant's spine-chilling proposal →
Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama’s closest confidants. Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama’s head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs where, among other things, he is responsible for “overseeing policies relating toprivacy, information quality, and statistical programs.” In 2008, while...
Call for study of threat from "offline"... →
feastingonroadkill:
“Policymakers urgently need better information on people’s attitudes to copyright law, according to a report out today warning that friends swapping hard drives and memory sticks could pose as great a piracy threat to media companies as online filesharers.”
Todays ‘No Shit, Sherlock’ moment from the media dinosaurs.
“when Zuckerberg says social norm he means business value, and when he says...”
– Davey Winder in iTWire, A primer on privacy for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Let’s try that with the text of Zuckerberg’s interview where he spoke every-so-briefly about the privacy changes with Michael Arrington:
“People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and...