HIST 390-001 The Digital Past Fall 2013

Interesting look at censorship and various factors of censorship from a historical perspective that are argued to have contributed to cyber censorship today..."The rule historically has been, and continues to be, repression and suppression of disfavored ideas."

An article from "The Guardian" about how Google could end web censorship in China explained by Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt was quoted during a speech in Washington.

An article from February about what "actually" gets done on Tumblr, and why it's so popular with our age group.

Just a news in how tumblr is being used to spread message about Russia's Anti-gay policies and how the company is being drawn into a fight. The company is trying to gain equal rights for everyone through tumblr, but it might causing more damage than it intends.

Great article of why there is a drastic statistical decline in people reading e-books

SPDY (pronounced " SPeeDY ") is a new technology that aims to decrease page load times by fixing a number of flaws present in HTTP 1.1. It's not a replacement for HTTP but instead adds a number of features that help to make web transactions faster.

Whether we realize it or not, all social media websites have a certain (usually unwritten) etiquette. This article lists some basic etiquette when using Tumblr.

This is a short article about ways to maximize your use of Project Gutenberg.

Here are other sites that are torrent sites, thought it was interesting after seeing the BitTorrent presentation today

a new internet boom is coming.

Hopefully will be helpful when working with WordPress for the final project

This CNN article discusses research done to determine what young people do online. Concerned parents may not want to read this.

Can you name the U.S. city with the fastest internet connection? Not many can. This article talks about how this particular city has the fastest internet.

Interesting article about hackers who have received a lot of attention

New website that generates your old Facebook statuses to make odd possible new ones that could either make sense...or it couldn't.

Just for fun, a story about James Van der Beek guy who was on "Dawson's Creek," which was *THE* hot show in 1998, and some of the differences between being famous then and being famous now. On the one hand, you're more exposed now (thanks, iPhone); on the other hand, there are more ways to make pieces of 'the real you' public: " At least on Twitter, I put out some bits of my sense of humor. Whereas in '98, when I was being mobbed by girls, they were just looking to go crazy about anything and could use the excuse, you know, to scream and go mad." Just FYI, I myself have never seen Dawson's Creek, but I remember when it was big, and I know someone who's rewatching all the episodes on Netflix now and live-tweeting them.

This article discusses a power struggle between David Karp and the new CEO of Tumblr.

This is just a fun YouTube video with examples of altered pictures. This shows all the aspects of Photoshop and the tools that can be used to deceive viewers. Many are obvious, but some make you double-take.

This is an interesting article about stars who are against photoshop or think it portrays an unrealistic expectation about how they look on magazine covers

Here's a great story related to the issue Milan raised of authenticity in photographs -- during any disaster, lots of fake photos circulate, such as these "from" Superstorm Sandy.