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New media death watch: New Matilda to fold - Crikey - 0 views

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  • César Albarrán Torres on 27 May 10
     
    Alternative online outlet New Matilda will shut down operations due to poor revenue from advertising "in the current media environment". Sad. 
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Hugo Chavez Has a New Title: Blogger - 0 views

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  • That’s right, in addition to (surprisingly) getting hip to Twitter, Chavez now has his very own blog.
  • the site basically contains news about meetings with Chinese officials, columns by Fidel Castro (who Chavez has already urged to join Twitter), as well as speeches, photos and videos. In short, this is a pretty standard political website — there’s even a comments section (although all comments are suspiciously positive).
  • This sentiment falls in line with statements he made two months ago when he called for greater regulation of the Internet after a website posted a story falsely suggesting that Diosdado Cabello, a senior minister and close aide of Chavez, had been assassinated.
  • César Albarrán Torres on 25 May 10
     
    Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is really into his digital persona. Now he has a blog. Interesting how he has taken social media communications seriously. 
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Twitter: Following Thailand's Political Crisis | Women Learning Thai... and some men to... - 0 views

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  • César Albarrán Torres on 24 May 10
     
    Twitter is being used as a tool for advice on how to escape risky places in thailand due to political tensions. 
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Mark Zuckerberg - From Facebook, answering privacy concerns with new settings - 3 views

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  • From Facebook, answering privacy concerns with new settings
  • The challenge is how a network like ours facilitates sharing and innovation, offers control and choice, and makes this experience easy for everyone
  • - You have control over how your information is shared.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • - We do not give advertisers access to your personal information.
  • César Albarrán Torres on 24 May 10
     
    Privacy addressed by Zukerberg. Shall we believe him? Article goes hand in hand with this week's readings. 
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Tries to Unmask Twitter Critics | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views

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  • An anonymous blogger critical of Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett plans to challenge a grand jury subpoena ordering Twitter to reveal the blogger’s identity.
  • The bloggers received an e-mail from Twitter on Tuesday evening saying the micro-blogging service would respond to the subpoena (.pdf) in a week “unless we receive notice from you that a motion to quash the subpoena has been filed or that this matter has been otherwise resolved.”
  • In August, however, Google unmasked the operator of the “Skanks in NYC” blog after being subpoenaed by an Australian model who claimed the site defamed her. And on Monday, a federal judge prevented Yahoo from revealing the identity of a message-board poster critical of USA Technologies.
  • César Albarrán Torres on 23 May 10
     
    Twitter receives a grand jury subpoena forcing the company to reveal a user's identity. Interesting how this can be done when the stakes are high, when there is a a political subtext under it. Could this set a precedent for defamation cases?
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BBC News - Former Mexico presidential candidate 'missing' - 1 views

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  • The BBC's Inma Gil in Mexico City says the disappearance of the man known as "Diego the boss" has sparked all sorts of speculation in a country ravaged by drug related violence.
  • Some local media reported he had been kidnapped, others that he had been killed.
  • César Albarrán Torres on 16 May 10
     
    Manuel Espino, leader of the PAN, Mexico's conservative party, twitted that Diego Fernandez de Ceballos, the politician who is missing, had been killed. He later said sorry and admited the information was not confirmed/true. But was it? Twitter's immediacy can put politicians in the spotlight even if that is not their intention. 
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QuitFacebookDay.com - 2 views

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  • César Albarrán Torres on 15 May 10
     
    site promotes an exodus from Facebook due to privacy conerns
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UK election 2010: @Conservatives have more followers than @UKLabour « ..:: di... - 0 views

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  • César Albarrán Torres on 10 May 10
     
    Contrary to the Obama-McCain 2008 campaign, where Internet users with liberal tendencies where more prone to follow their candidates via Twitter and other social media, the recent UK campaign shown the aparent leadership of Conservatives in political digital communications. They have double the Twitter followers than Labour. Do you think the digital divide between Democracts and Republicans in the US will shorten in the 2012 presidential campaign?
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UK Election (UKElection10) on Twitter - 0 views

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  • César Albarrán Torres on 07 May 10
     
    Twitter feeds that reported the results of the recent UK election could serve as a starting point on election coverage. I would not be surprised if preliminary reports eventually leak ahead of the polls closing. Do you think twitter will be regulated in elections? Maybe not all electoral officials are discrete... 
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ONE Vote 2010 - About the campaign - 0 views

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  • César Albarrán Torres on 30 Apr 10
     
    ONE, the NGO led by, among others, Bono, has been an influential voice in international lobbying for some years now. As the British election comes close, the organization has launched a campaign to incite voting and, once the new government is elected, pressure the winner to support issues concerning Africa and other development issues. It all sounds good, but.... how and why can an international NGO influence internal politics in a country, when does it cease to be intervensionism? 
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Women and boobs take on Iran cleric | Technology | BigPond News - 0 views

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  • Breasts were big on Facebook on Monday as a female blogger called on women to prove wrong an Iranian cleric who preached that cleavage causes earthquakes.
  • McCreight, who lives in the US state of Indiana, used the world's leading social network and microblogging service Twitter to enlist women worldwide to test the cleric's assertion that sexy women can make the ground shake.
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