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Hitler "Downfall" Parodies Removed from YouTube - 1 views

mashable.com/...dmca-hitler

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  • César Albarrán Torres on 20 Apr 10
     
    WHAT? YouTube IS A PARODY ITSELF!
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In Indonesia, the Internet Emerges as a (Too?) Powerful Tool - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...20indonet.html

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  • Displeased that a statue of a 10-year-old Barack Obama was installed in a park here, Indonesians took their protest not to this capital’s most famous traffic circle but to Facebook. More than 56,000 online protesters later, city officials gave in to arguments that the park should be reserved to honor an Indonesian.
  • But the boom is prompting a fierce debate over the limits of free expression in a newly democratic Indonesia, with the government trying to regulate content on the Internet and a recently emboldened news media pushing back.
  • Skeptics, especially among politicians and religious leaders, worry about mob rule and the loss of traditional values.
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  • Thanks to relatively cheap cellphones that offer Internet access, Facebook, Twitter and local social networking media have rapidly spread from cities to villages throughout Southeast Asia, especially in Indonesia and the Philippines
  • In another cause célèbre, online support was critical in freeing a 32-year-old mother who was jailed after complaining about the poor service at a suburban Jakarta hospital.
  • According to data from Facebook, Indonesia trails only the United States, with 116 million users, and Britain, with 24 million.
  • “I think we are between China and the United States,” he said. “Yes, we are free. But with freedom comes responsibility.”
  • César Albarrán Torres on 20 Apr 10
     
    Good article on the social and political uses of social media (sic.) in Indonesia. There have been attempts to filter/censor content, but so far they have been avoided. Uses of Twitter, Facebook by politicians is also described. 
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Google Removes http:// from Chrome - 0 views

www.osnews.com/...oogle_Removes_http_from_Chrome

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  • César Albarrán Torres on 19 Apr 10
     
    Bug off standards! It is "www.google.com", not "http://www.google.com"!!
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EDITORIAL: TSA to download your iTunes? - Washington Times - 0 views

www.washingtontimes.com/...tsa-to-download-your-itunes

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  • Federal security workers are now free to snoop through more than just your undergarments and luggage at the airport. Thanks to a recent series of federal court decisions, the digital belongings of international fliers are now open for inspection. This includes reading the saved e-mails on your laptop, scanning the address book on your iPhone or BlackBerry and closely scrutinizing your digital vacation snapshots.
  • In other words, simply because a U.S. citizen is returning from a foreign country by airplane, the government thinks it is a "routine" matter to download sensitive business documents, personal correspondence and any other information that might be saved on a laptop or cell phone, regardless of whether there is any reason to suspect the traveler of a crime.
  • César Albarrán Torres on 18 Apr 10
     
    Creepy: airport checks might now include checking the files in your laptop. 
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UK parties ignoring social media ahead of poll | EurActiv - 0 views

www.euractiv.com/...attle-social-media-news-405663

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  • The UK's political parties use social media for "one-off witty campaigns" but they do not engage in US-style outreach to their voters, according to an analysis by a British consultancy published ahead of elections due on 6 May.
  • The UK's political parties have not embraced social media as they were expected to do before the upcoming May elections, concludes research carried out by analysts at Ovum, a consultancy
  • "Politicians should be using chat platforms like the popular Twitter website to drive immediate responses to publicised events like televised political debates."
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  • "The UK has its own idiosyncrasies and we must not lose sight [of the fact] that many social media platforms have not been adopted by all ages and classes in society," the analyst added.
  • "The vast majority of MEPs are using the Internet and are certainly being inspired by the success that Barack Obama has had, but too many of them still believe that digital tools are less effective than traditional forms of communication, such as television and newspapers," said James Stevens, senior vice-president for digital services at the consultancy.
  • César Albarrán Torres on 17 Apr 10
     
    Interesting data on how and why British politicians are slow in the use of social media for political campaigning. They still trust other more traditional channels. Interesting data: Europeans are lagging behind American policy makers in their use of Twitter and other means of digital communication. Might the higher age average of European citizens have something to do with it?
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All your Twitter belongs to the Library of Congress | Richard Adams | World news | guar... - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...twitter-library-of-congress

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    Wait a minute....
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Web 2.0: the new election superweapon | Politics | The Observer - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...new-media-election-campaign

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  • From Twitter and Facebook to viral ads and crowdsourcing, technology appears to offer parties powerful new ways to engage voters
  • All three mainstream parties are adopting similar techniques, but with very different aims.
  • Social media matters precisely because it is social, creating networks and building intimacy between strangers quickly – even if some of them are politicians.
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  • Once the novelty of politicians in virtual life passes, social media users may return to ignoring them.
  • Perhaps the challenge for politicians online remains the same as in the days of soapbox and megaphone: just being heard.
  • César Albarrán Torres on 12 Apr 10
     
    Interesting article on The Guardian on how the main British parties use social media. The article, though, treats social media as a fad that may eventually dissolve. The question, though, remains: do political parties know how to use social media?
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| Texas Democratic Party: Petition to Gref Abbot - 0 views

www.txdemocrats.org/saynotoabbott

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  • Petition to Greg Abbott: Do Your Job and Stop Wasting our Tax Dollars
  • We, the people of Texas, will not pay for Greg Abbott’s extreme partisan agenda.
  • We call on Greg Abbott to do the job we pay him to do and stop wasting our tax dollars on a frivolous partisan lawsuit.
  • César Albarrán Torres on 08 Apr 10
     
    Interesting use of social media by the Democratic Party as an opposition force in Texas. Notice how the webpages layout is not that different to the ones used by the Republican Party and their media allies, FOX NEWS. Does the web incite dialogue in political campaigning, does it represent a true paradigm shift, or are old propaganda and petition models just replicated? 
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Rupert Murdoch defiant: 'I'll stop Google taking our news for nothing' | Media | guardi... - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...t-murdoch-google-paywalls-ipad

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  • César Albarrán Torres on 08 Apr 10
     
    Just wait a second and think.... does he have a point?
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Microsoft Office on iPad? Don't Hold Your Breath - 0 views

mashable.com/...google-microsoft-ipad

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  • César Albarrán Torres on 04 Apr 10
     
    No Office on iPad..... mmm... interesting.... 
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Google Links Web Attacks to Vietnam Mine Dispute - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...01vietnam.html

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  • oogle, fresh off a dispute with China over censorship and intrusion from hackers, says it has identified cyber-attacks aimed at silencing critics of a controversial, Chinese-backed bauxite mining project in Vietnam.
  • to spy on their owners and to attack blogs containing messages of political dissen
  • It added: “This incident underscores that not every attack is motivated by data theft or money. This is likely the latest example of hacktivism and politically motivated cyberattacks, which are on the rise.”
  • César Albarrán Torres on 31 Mar 10
     
    Google blames Chinese-backed groups for attacking blogs of political critics. But who can stop this actions, who has the power to, within the current legal framework, do so?
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Warner Bros. Looks for Anti-Piracy Interns - 0 views

mashable.com/...spy-pirates

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  • The UK arm of Warner Bros Entertainment is looking for students to spy on digital pirates.It seems logical: Students know about piracy, many of them have committed acts that would be considered digital piracy, so why not hire them as counterintelligence?
  • César Albarrán Torres on 30 Mar 10
     
    Anyone interested?
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Kremlin accused of honey-trap campaign against opposition - Telegraph - 0 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...mpaign-against-opposition.html

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  • The Kremlin has been accused of sanctioning a Soviet-style dirty tricks campaign against opposition politicians using vintage KGB entrapment techniques of money, drugs and glamorous women.
  • The allegations follow the release of a string of videos on the internet purporting to show an opposition politician, a political analyst, and the editor of the Russian edition of Newsweek magazine in compromising situations.
  • Hidden cameras in police cars show the trio apparently offering to bribe their way out of traffic offences, while another video appears to show one of the three, Mikhail Fishman, the editor of Russian Newsweek, snorting cocaine in the company of a semi-naked glamour model.
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  • He said he grew suspicious when a girl offering to sleep with him offered him cocaine "to relax" minutes after she and a "girlfriend" had foisted a number of bizarre sex toys upon him.
  • The editors-in-chief of a number of leading publications have come out in Mr Fishman's defence. They say they are concerned about "the organised campaign" against him and "the journalistic community as a whole."
  • César Albarrán Torres on 30 Mar 10
     
    A politician, a political analyst and the editor of the Russian edition of Newsweek have been, supposedly, framed by the Kremlin in order to discredit them. Videos of them in compromising positions have been distributed in the Internet: the web as a channel through which public opinion can be molded by totalitarian states. Political campaigns could "learn" a lot from the Kremlin's actions... 
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Analysis: Google-China flap déjà vu for Microsoft - CNN.com - 0 views

edition.cnn.com/...index.html

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  • A fight between a technology titan and the world's fastest-growing economy. Trade war tensions rising between Beijing and Washington, as U.S. legislators howl about unfair Chinese business practices and the Chinese media assail American arrogance. No, it's not the current battle between Google and China -- but the fight between Microsoft and Beijing in March 1994.
  • "They [Microsoft] need to get on the right side of human rights rather than enabling tyranny, which they're doing right now," said Rep. Chris Smith, a Republican from New Jersey, in a congressional hearing on Wednesday. Microsoft issued a statement, saying it would work with the Chinese government to foster a more open Internet -- but it would not leave. Perhaps because of its own thorny fight with China more than a decade ago.
  • César Albarrán Torres on 29 Mar 10
     
    Interesting comparison between Microsoft and Google experiences in China. 
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BBC News - Peers warn of backlash fears over digital radio - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8591942.stm

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  • The government could face a public backlash over its plans to switch national radio stations over to digital transmission, peers have warned.
  • public confusion and industry uncertainty". It said people wer
  • César Albarrán Torres on 29 Mar 10
     
    It said people were still buying analogue radios which will be out of date in a few years' time.
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Obama propone penas de cárcel para frenar la «piratería» - 0 views

www.larazon.es/...arcel-para-frenar-la-pirateria

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  • César Albarrán Torres on 27 Mar 10
     
    Jail for cyber pirates? (In Spanish, I'm looking for an English version) 
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