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2012/04/22

Jon Lebkowsky: 21st Century New Sources & Methods for Journalism

International Symposium on Online Journalism: New approaches in engaging with the news community ISOJ Program Angela Lee: Audience preference and editorial judgment: a study of time-lagged influence in online news To what extent are audiences influencing editors and journalists, and vice versa? Editorial judgement measured based on placement on paper; audience preference measured by clicks, …

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2012/04/21

Patrick Meier: Building Egypt 2.0: When Institutions Fail, Crowdsourcing Surges

Building Egypt 2.0: When Institutions Fail, Crowdsourcing Surges I recently presented at Where 2.0 and had the chance to catch Adel Youssef’s excellent talk on “How Location Based Services is Used to Build Egypt 2.0.” He shared some important gems on digital activism. For example, while Facebook allowed Egyptians to “like” a protest event or …

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2012/04/212012/04/21

DefDog: Illegal DoD PSYOP Against US Media?

They probably should’ve stuck with leaflets and greeting cards. Note that there had been a scathing report on an Army Contractor…… USA Today: Online Pentagon Payback Campaign Targeted Us Katie Drummond WIRED, April 20, 2012 The U.S. military’s propaganda activities — known formally and euphemistically as “information operations” — has this week faced serious accusations …

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2012/04/202012/04/21

Berto Jongman: Interesting National Security Links

Business Cover for US Military Spies? Communicating in a Crisis Cute Cats Theories of Political Activism Eight Most Influential Technologies Fallujah Health Effects Fed Transcripts Is Al Qaeda Really Dead Part I Islamophobia Conference US Military and Intelligence Clash Over Spy Satellites** US Spending Tax Money on Useless Weapons Systems VIDEO: Secrets in Plain Sight …

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2012/04/172012/04/17

Patrick Meier: The Digital Operations Center of the American Red Cross

The Digital Operations Center at the American Red Cross is an important and exciting development. I recently sat down with Wendy Harman to learn more about the initiative and to exchange some lessons learned in this new world of digital humanitarians. One common challenge in emergency response is scaling. The American Red Cross cannot be …

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2012/04/162012/04/16

DefDog: UK Guardian Does a Series on the Internet

Day one: the new cold war China’s censors tested by microbloggers who keep one step ahead of state media Inside Washington’s high risk mission to beat web censors Nervous Kremlin seeks to purge Russia’s internet of ‘western’ influences How tiny Estonia stepped out of USSR’s shadow to become an internet titan COMMENT: The real threat …

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2012/04/152012/04/16

Mini-Me: Google Co-Founder on Web Freedom Facing Greatest Threat

Huh? Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google’s Sergey Brin Exclusive: Threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style ‘walled gardens’ Ian Katz guardian.co.uk, Sunday 15 April 2012 Sergey Brin says he and Google co-founder Larry Page would not have been able to create their search giant …

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