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8 votes
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Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa's new internet paradigm
7 votes -
An email marketing company left 809 million records exposed online
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Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a remarkably common password
57 votes -
When did everyone become socialist?
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Mountain of tongues: Can a nationalist movement from the internet save the world's most scattered people?
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I have forgotten how to read: For a long time Michael Harris convinced himself that a childhood spent immersed in old-fashioned books would insulate him from our new media climate. He was wrong.
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THQ Nordic hosts an AMA on 8chan, releases apology two hours later
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Memes are our generation's protest art
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OneWeb set to launch first satellites in quest to provide global internet coverage from space
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What happened to broadband in Australia? NBN Co’s former CEO on how the Coalition broke the internet.
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Wikipedia editors have been fighting over corn for at least a decade
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Altavista: The Rise & Fall of the Biggest Pre-Google Search Engine
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Flickr will soon start deleting photos — and massive chunks of internet history
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The internet was built on the free labor of open source developers. Is that sustainable?
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Russia to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned cyberwar test
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Online grocery shopping has been slow to catch on - We shop online for almost everything. Why not food?
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The Google Chrome team is developing tools, heuristics and warnings to help protect against deceptive URLs
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Is Huawei a friend or foe in the battle for 5G dominance?
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Meet Gavin, the eight-year-old with a face shared more than 1bn times
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The alt-right playbook: The card says moops
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The island nation of Tonga is facing a near-total internet blackout. The country’s only undersea cable was damaged during a storm.
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“The Linux of social media” - How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging
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These are all the federal HTTPS websites that’ll expire soon because of the US government shutdown
8 votes -
The Rise and Demise of RSS
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The internet, but not as we know it: Life online in China, Cuba, India and Russia
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Who owns the internet? (What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture.)
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Why the UK's porn block is one of the worst ideas ever
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Over a million IP addresses geolocate to a house in Pretoria, South Africa, causing people (and police) to show up regularly in search of criminals, stolen phones, and more
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Life lessons from a lifestyle business - An interview with Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter
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I was a cable guy. I saw the worst of America
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Forgive fast, block even faster and other rules for maintaining your sanity on the internet
6 votes -
How much of the internet is fake?
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What is the blogging platform of your dreams?
Let's fantasise Tilderinoes! You can just write what comes to your mind or answer any of the questions below to get your thoughts flowing. What bothers you in the current blogging platforms, like...
Let's fantasise Tilderinoes! You can just write what comes to your mind or answer any of the questions below to get your thoughts flowing.
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What bothers you in the current blogging platforms, like Blogger, Tumblr, or Wordpress?
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Is it “free” and with ads, commercial with no ads, or free and non-commercial
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Does it have comments? How are they moderated? Who can comment? Are there PMs?
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Does it have tags? Categories? A tree structure?
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Does it provide file storage (images, audio, video)? How much?
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How extensible is your blog page? Can you control all of the CSS? Can you add scripting?
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Does it allow adult content? Political content? Hateful content? Who decides?
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Does the country of origin matter? Does it block content based on your country's laws (e.g. copyright, political stuff, etc.)?
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What are the privacy features? Does it require an email address? A card number (if commercial)?
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The internet of unprofitable things
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.com crash of 2000
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The EU Copyright Directive: What redditors in Europe need to know
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A business with no end - Where does this strange empire start or stop?
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Back from the edge: It’s easy to blame online rhetoric for violence. The reality is much harder
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How to build a low-tech website
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Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome (Remote Code Execution?)
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Two scenarios of Chinese hacking of Australian companies
China uses the cloud to step up spying on Australian business How China diverts, then spies on Australia's internet traffic
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The community network manual: How to build the Internet yourself
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The Web is still a DARPA weapon
12 votes -
A third of Wikipedia discussions are stuck in forever beefs
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Advice for internet startup newbie
I might soon be part of an internet startup. We're talking with a relative about setting up a consultancy & business news service on a certain sector, and I've generated a part of the idea and...
I might soon be part of an internet startup. We're talking with a relative about setting up a consultancy & business news service on a certain sector, and I've generated a part of the idea and accepted to take on the technical/editorial side for a while (I've almost a year til when I start my master's, and will probably work up until when I start my thesis; so almost two years). If things work out, this might be a dream job (except academia) for me, and even very lucrative. But I'm fairly n00b in this space, both business and professional work, though I have the technical skills. Thus I'm seeking general advice on
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how to organise this thing: how to make sure we communicate well on dates and plans and how to make educated guesses when setting up an agenda
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how much will it cost: we'll start with making a database and running a sector-specific blog/news site as publicity (though I'll make sure the content is quite decent, not just a showpiece), but then later we'll introduce a tangential online service and a mobile app leveraging that crowd
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working with non-techies: I'll be the only techie in this startup and I need to help people with gathering, storing, organising and utilising historical data with certain variables, ensuring they keep an accurate record and can make quality queries easily; the 3 people apart from me will be non technical
I think quite a bit of you here have been involved in this sort of scenario, so maybe you could have some advice for me. I'd appreciate anything, examples of approaches, links to tools, what not, anything you think could be useful. Thanks a lot in advance!
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Alienation is the most powerful online brand
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I feel like one of the biggest digital losses of the last five years was the rise and fall of independent news networks
There was a brief (an oh-so-brief) period in youtube history where all types of non-corporate content thrived. I'm referring, if memory serves, to the timespan from around 2011 - late 2014. This...
There was a brief (an oh-so-brief) period in youtube history where all types of non-corporate content thrived. I'm referring, if memory serves, to the timespan from around 2011 - late 2014.
This was after youtube initially got big, but before Google decided that it wanted to step in and maintain the cultural status quo rather than redefine it. Ad revenue paid creators fairly-ish in most cases, and the talk of the town was machinima assfucking it's segment of poor souls that signed into it, rather than youtube pulling the same moves universally as it did a few years later.
(Suffice to say I have no love for the platform).
It's important to note that at this time, Youtube was a bit like a small-scale television enterprise, before it dreamed of deliberately becoming one. Youtube had everything from animations to product reviews, news to reality programming to VFX extravaganzas.
One of the most incredibly important innovations of the time, and one that's been all-but-lost, was the birth (and subsequent heat-death) of youtube news channels.
These channels mirrored cable news, but without the influence of corporate sponsors getting in the way, and without the ravenous need to appease political parties and harebrained cable tv viewers. They were biased - good god were some of them biased - and they weren't perfect, but they were set up in such a way that, had youtube not fucked it up (sigh...) they might've someday dethroned CNN, MSNBC and Fox.
With the next election coming up and shaping up to be a small-scale repeat of 2018s (you're kidding yourself if we're every going to go any other direction than further down at this point - after all, it works!) it's important to remember that there was, for a beautiful gleaming moment, a chance for not a corporation, but a community, to rise up and redefine the way people received news in a way that hadn't been seen since the conception of the newspaper.
Instead, youtube squandered it. Real events and engaging content don't generate views. People can't sit and watch hours of current events like they do for whatever-the-hell youtube trends nowadays (list videos and toy openings, I guess?), and why would they? If you get on youtube to watch today's news, you're not going to stick around for yesterday's. So youtube's 'algorythm', a word I've come to absolutely detest, doesn't favor them just like it doesn't favor basically anything else that once made youtube great.
The icing on the cake: rather than embrace even a tertiary aspect of the community, they went for the safe option and the ad revenue. No Phillip Defranco for you, we'll show you Jimmy Kimmel. No TYT, we'll fill trending with clips of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. The only real survivor of the era was infowars.
Here's to you, youtube news. Dead and gone, but not forgotten.
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Curbing hate online: What companies should do now
8 votes -
In Iran, state sanctioned messaging apps are the new hallmark of internet nationalisation
4 votes