Facebook is not so much about freedom as it is “like an ideologically motivated virtual totalitarian regime.”
Read more »Facebook vs Ning – what is “social”?
http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl –
From Free Markets to Free Internets (by Prof Mejias)
Study: Google-China attack driven by amateurs
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Google is threatening to pull out of China based on a recent attack by amateurs. It seems like amateurs have a lot more luck hacking these big nodes, given the story we read about mafiaboy.
Read more »Red Star: Linux for North Korea
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Not only does North Korea have “its own Internet” – a national information network independent from the US-based Internet regulator – it also has an operating system, developed under by order of Kim Jong-il.
Read more »Public Spaces Online
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I thought that this was an interesting article about the need for public spaces online that exist without interest groups or corporations behind them.
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Assessing The Threat of Cyberterrorism
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James Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the co-author of the report "Security Cyberspace in the 44th Presidency," explains how recent breaches at Google and the Department of Defense have illustrated that the United States is not yet ready to deal with a large scale cyber-attack.
Read more »Is Ning the Next Facebook or MySpace?
http://www.cmswire.com –
Technology is a continuously changing force in our world. Facebook keeps changing to cater to their audience but will one day it not be as exciting and used as much as today? Ning is a website that allows its users to create their own social website and networks.
This is the link to Ning's official website: http://about.ning.com/
Read more »Georgetown University Hosts “Social Media in the Classroom: Implications for Teaching and Learning” [review of my panel in DC]
Cashing in on Internet Censorship
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Where governments pose restrictions, companies are finding ways to help people circumvent them. Apparently, business is booming for people wanting to use firewalls to get around their countries censorship. Even when the blocks get blocked, new ways continue to pop up.
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