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CCC Freedom Stick, Olympics Special Edition
It’s been around for awhile, but CCC’s Freedom Stick, a memory stick loaded with powerful privacy software, is now also available in an Olympics Special edition: CCC - China - Privacy Emergency Response Team, extra easy to use for non-technical users. It consists mainly of a TOR anonymizer plus mobile FireFox.
Image: CCC
Who’s it for? […]
Four success factors for your organization’s blog
Christian Kreutz of GTZ (the German cooperation enterprise for technical international cooperation and development) has worked with blogs in his organization for several years. In a series of posts (”From A-Z to Organization 2.0″) he shares his experiences with blogging and lists a number of examples and success factors.
Besides the use cases for blogging (like […]
Learn from the Fail Whale: failing doesn’t need to hurt
If there’s one thing all Twitter users have in common, it’s that they’ve experienced down time. Twitter is famous for it’s long and regular down times, and since the service is growing so fast, it will continue to be unavailable fairly frequently for quite a while. Usually, with the fickle web audience, this would mean […]
12seconds: Twitter for video (and video for Twitter)
A new day, a new video service. Today: 12seconds, which has a refreshing take on web video: Record a video message of exactly 12 seconds, the moving image equivalent of a 140 character message on Twitter. It’s a video micro blog.
hello world on 12seconds.tv
My first test post on 12seconds.
You see the parallels to Twitter? Well, […]
Beijing 2008: Reporters and bloggers face threats
Sadly, the whole idea of giving the Olympic Games to China in order to get the government to respects human and media rights more has turned out to be a complete and utter failure. Without much commenting on my behalf, let me point out just some of the recent findings of human rights organizations.
Amnesty International […]
Test: Live Blog with CoverItLive
What you see below is a test of the live blogging tool CoverItLive. It looks promising indeed:
Of course this was just a test run without anything to cover, so it’s all dummy copy. I’d be curious to hear what you think about it, though: Would you like this kind of format, or rather stick to […]
Traditional media goes mobile streaming: Gannett & Mogulus?
As Techcrunch announced today, video streaming service Mogulus just got a big of extra cash ($10 million). What interesting here is who that money is coming from: Gannett, a major U.S. based publisher and very much a traditional media outlet:
[Garnett] publishes 85 daily newspapers, including USA TODAY, and nearly 900 non-daily publications. (…) The company […]
Netiquette in one picture
A lot of smart stuff has been written about netiquette and behavior in social networks, blogs etc. But when all is said and done, it boils down to this:
Photo by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (aka Designswarm)
Who are your favorite women bloggers?
A few days back, ReadWriteWeb took the Blogher conference as a good occasion to list their favorite women bloggers, Go2Web2.0’s Orli Yakuel even went a step further and made a slideshow of 50 powerful females’ blogs.
A great list! A few of these blogs I follow regularly (like Emily Chang, Xeni Jardin, Danah Boyd and […]
Presentation: “What the f**k is social media?”
Always a big fan of neat visualizations, particularly of complex topics, I found I really liked this 101 on social media by Marta Z. Kagan. Titled “What the f**k is social media“, Marta gives a quick, easy-to-understand rundown of the basic terminology paired with well-presented thoughts on why social media matter:
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