MediaBerkman » Blog Archive » Cameran Ashraf on #iranelection: The digital media response to the 2009 Iranian election
Cameran Ashraf presents how social and digital media play a crucial role in helping mass social movements coordinate and communicate effectively. With Iran as a case study, this presentation explores the role new communication technologies are playing in the post-election unrest, how people outside of Iran are helping through digital media, and the Iranian government’s efforts at maintaining its information border. Click Above for Video…or download the OGG video format! Share!
Should Parents Post Pictures of Their Kids on Facebook?
This week marked another dust-up in the debate about oversharenting—that is, parents sharing too much information about their kids online. At Slate, Amy Webb argued parents are “creating a generation of kids born into digital sin.” She and her husband post nothing—no photos, no videos—about their daughter online to protect her anonymity. Andrew Leonard at Salon fired back, “We are strengthening the ties that bind a larger community of family and friends together” by sharing our kids’ lives with a select few on social media.
5000+ Resources to Do Just About Anything Online
Since May 2007, we've been bringing you resources and tools to be more productive on the web. Due to popular demand, we've brought all these lists together into one gigantic meta-list: 5000+ Resources to Do Just About Anything Online. Enjoy! And don't forget to subscribe to Mashable for the latest web news and resources.
Turnitin and SafeAssign plagiarism detection programs: Why are they all ineffective?
Photo illustration by Juliana Jiménez. Photo by Chris Boswell/Thinkstock Plagiarism detection software from vendors such as Turnitin is often criticized for labeling clumsy student writing as plagiarism. Now a set of new tests suggests the software lets too many students get away with it.
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Teens, Social Media, and Privacy
Teens, Social Media, and Privacy Teens share a wide range of information about themselves on social media sites; indeed the sites themselves are designed to encourage the sharing of information and the expansion of networks. However, few teens embrace a fully public approach to social media. Instead, they take an array of steps to restrict and prune their profiles, and their patterns of reputation management on social media vary greatly according to their gender and network size. These are among the key findings from a new report based on a survey of 802 teens that examines teens’ privacy management on social media sites:
Experimental Real-Time Location Tracking Comes To Google Latitude On Android
Google has just released a series of updates for their Google Maps Android application. Two of these updates are useful: Place page reviews and the ability to filter search results. But one of them is really interesting: real-time location updating in Google Latitude. To be clear, this feature is an experimental one that Google is trying out.
Social Networking Privacy
Latest News/Events With New Policy Changes, Facebook Tracks Users Across the Web: Over the objections of consumer privacy organizations, Facebook has implemented policy changes that allow the company to track users across the web without consent. The Dutch data protection commissioner launched an investigation after the original announcement. This week the a German privacy agency announced a similar investigation. Last year, EPIC and a coalition of consumer privacy groups urged the FTC to halt Facebook's plan to collect web-browsing information from its users. Facebook is already under a 20 year consent decree for changing users' privacy settings.
Location Intelligence Applications For Everyone
Mapping and Location Analytics for all Imagine the ability to map your data and test hypothesis without the need for a complex and traditionally expensive GIS, combined with the flexibility to do this in the office, at home, at a client location, on the move and even via a tablet device such as iPad. MAPCITE delivers an extremely powerful toolset that has no reliance on your internal IT teams, internal server connections or requires additional software to be installed. Use cases: Chief Constable visualizing officer movement Epidemiologist mapping disease Global tech company anlayzing distribution channels Bank location based transaction analytics Insurer mapping/analyzing fraud locations Health Analyst understanding the "causes of the causes" Full features comparison
Teaching Kids to Be Smart About Social Media
Listen For kids and teens, social media is an essential part of their lives, much the way telephones were important to us at their age. About 90% of teens have used some form of social media and 75% have a profile on a social networking site, experts say. More than half of all American teens visit social networking sites every day. These numbers are way up from just a few years ago, and there's almost no chance of them ever coming down again. This isn't necessarily a reason for concern.
Indeed ! Pearltrees is closer to a video game than a simple web page. This is the case of much rich web applications, flash or not. by nicolas Dec 6
Might be flash... or just the complexity flash is handling. Streaming a video, creating a rich interface layout or managing a real time game are all actions that require more ressources than displaying a text page with a few images. Those actions are typically performed in Flash, but they would require significant computer resources in any language. by Patrice Dec 6
I did check by monitoring activity before mentioning. I did notice a big difference before and after using Flash. Have you monitored yourself? I was told Flash would slow down, I hadn't notice that but the laptop battery and increased noise, yes. by clarinette02 Dec 6
Some people tend to credit Flash for just wathever issue they have on the Web... and this is often unfair. by Patrice Dec 6
ok, gr8 good news to hear. one more request: I often get my browser - Firefox - frozen and battery usage due to Flash I have been told. Am I the only one and could anything be done to remedy? by clarinette02 Dec 6
Perlenkette. They are based upon them. Check out this blog post by our CEO, Patrice Lamothe: by ostarr Dec 6
Don't worry clarinette, you wont lose anything when will drop the "beta" logo. Besides you can export your data by clicking the "export" tab in the settings :-) by Patrice Dec 5
I love pearltrees but it's only Beta mode. I am hoping not to loose all these compilations. Also, I wish there could be lexique of all links. would make it easier to find them. by clarinette02 Dec 5
I think so. That is why I love this project and its potential. by nukem777 Dec 5
The values Tim Berners-Lee is advocating aren't they very much identical to the ones pearltrees is supporting? by perlenkette Dec 5
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperityand even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending By Tim Berners-Lee by drone Nov 30