This morning I came across the "meme" reproduced above. It was on the Facebook wall of one of the few conservatives still on my friend list. I was totally perplexed. I had no idea what this was about. But someone on the thread posted a...
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Trolls aren't just after me, they're after your rhetorical tools in speech against oppression Days after my twelve-hour suspension from Twitter ended, the trolls have returned under the same absurdly.
Some colleagues suggested my earlier blialogue with my husband about the socio-political implications of Facebook's ever-changing architecture would be more entertaining in video format. Also, I was further galvanized to.
The US intelligence analyst who leaked the footage that resulted in Wikileaks' infamous "Collateral Murder" video has been outed by a hacker to whom he boasted of his actions online, and arrested by the Army's Criminal Investigation Division. Wired has the story: Manning was turned...
Recently I wrote about the need for Facebook alternatives. A team of NYU computer science students may have just the thing: Why can't privacy and connectedness go hand-in-hand? That's the.
Dan Yoder is leaving Facebook, and implores us to "join him." He has almost a dozen reasons why. Some of them are even good reasons. He's not alone. And more.
My colleague Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything forwarded me this interesting piece from Slate, in which ad critic Seth Stevenson tries out a Google service that allows you to run your own commercial on national TV for as little as $100.