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As China's social media takes off, Beijing's censorship campaign heats up

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - May. 15 (News Analysis) - A few well-regarded intellectuals known to be critical of the Communist Party have drawn millions of followers on China's ...

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The Antisocial Network of Bitcoins

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By PAUL KRUGMAN - Apr. 15 (Opinion) - Bitcoin’s wild ride may not have been the biggest business story of the past few weeks, but it was surely the most entertaining. Over the course of less than two weeks the price of the “digital currency” more than tripled. Then it fell more than 50 perce

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7 Chilling Facts About Retirement in America That Should Make Obama Tremble Before Cutting Social Security and Medicare

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Lynn Stuart Parramore - Apr. 09 (Opinion) - We are headed for a catastrophic retirement train wreck. A Wall Street-driven financial crisis has stripped millions of people of things like jobs, pensions and home equity that were supposed to deliver a dignified retirement after a lifetime of hard work. The crisis has also provided certain interests the opportunity to make false claims about the “unaffordability” of vital social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare that help the 99% make it. These opportunistic “ Raiders of Your Lost Retirement” do not give a hoot if you starve in your golden years – this is about money to them

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A 'like' for linguistics: Can social media save Mexico's unwritten languages?

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 02 (Special Report) - Many indigenous languages alive in Mexico today don't have formal written systems, but a growing number of computer-savvy young people want to Facebook and tweet in their native tongue. ...

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Social media help make conclave a historic one

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - Mar. 10 () - by Rachel Zoll The Associated Press Published Mar 9, 2013 09:54PM MDT Vatican City • A pastor in Ontario wondered about behind-the-scenes politicking ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope. He could have read news reports or listened to briefings by the Vatican spokesman. Instead, he asked a cardinal. Less than an hour later, the response arrived. “What I see is a real desire to know, and so evaluate, the papabili against criteria of qualities demanded by situations,” wrote Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban, South Africa, using the term “papabili” for cardin... ...

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First SOPA, Now Your Privacy: Facebook, Google Flex Lobbying Muscle in Europe

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Dana Liebelson - Mar. 01 (Opinion) - When the US government tried to regulate the Internet in 2011, through the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and a corresponding Senate bill, Silicon Valley tech giants and civil liberties organizations went ballistic. The two groups, often at odds, banded together to fight the controversial bills, which would have given the government enormous power to regulate web content and censor sites that appeared to be violating copyright laws. The protesters organized Internet blackouts , and squashed the measures before you could type, "Free streaming Walking Dead." But now some of the companies that fought SOPA , including Google , Yahoo !, Facebook , Amazon, and eBay , are joining with initial SOPA supporters and the Obama Administration to thwart the European Union's attempt to protect the personal information of European citizens—and American privacy advocates are back to fighting the tech behemoths. In January 2012, the European Union proposed overhauling existing privacy laws in its member ...

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Lakoff: Why Extreme Conservatives Like the Sequester

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By George Lakoff - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - Progressives tend to believe that democracy is based on citizens caring for their fellow citizens through what the government provides for all citizens — public infrastructure, public safety, public education, public health, publicly-sponsored research, public forms of recreation and culture, publicly-guaranteed safety nets for those who need them, and so on. In short, progressives believe that the private depends on the public, that without those public provisions Americans cannot be free to live reasonable lives and to thrive in private business. They believe that those who make more from public provisions should pay more to maintain them. Ultra-conservatives don’t believe this.

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The Leeches are Back and are Urging the Wrong Prescription: The Grand Bargain Returns

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

nationofchange.org - By Kevin Zeese JD, Margaret Flowers MD - Feb. 21 (Opinion) - Leeches could also be used in bloodletting. The withdrawal of so much blood as to induce syncope (fainting) was considered beneficial, and many sessions would only end when the patient began to swoon. As the economy shows signs of recession, the leeches return. Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles have issued a new report calling for even deeper austerity.

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Latest Pathetic Conservative Attack on Social Security: Disability Fraud Hysteria

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Lynn Stuart Parramore - Jan. 29 (Investigative Report) - According to this meme, the problem with America’s economy and society is vast numbers of lazy, lying, good-for-nothing loafers cheating the American taxpayer through disability fraud. You have to give them credit for chutzpah.

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Has America Become an Authoritarian State?

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Henry A. Giroux - Jan. 26 (Opinion) - What is missing in the current debates dominating Washington politics is the recognition that the real issues at stake are neither the debt ceiling nor the state of the economy, however important, but a powerful and poisonous form of authoritarianism that poses a threat to the very idea of democracy and the institutions, public values, formative cultures and public spheres that nourish it.

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Search Option From Facebook Is Privacy Test

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Somini Sengupta, Claire Cain Miller - Jan. 19 (News Analysis) - Whether Facebook’s users will continue to divulge even more private details will determine whether so-called social search is the next step in how we navigate the online world.

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Ohio rape case: Evidence on social media creates new world for justice system

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Jan. 09 (News Analysis) - Investigators in the Ohio rape case confiscated electronic devices from those involved. Evidence from social media allows jurors to rely more on common sense and less on expert testimony. ...

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Sales jobs rely on social media

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

San Francisco Chronicle - Jan. 07 (Opinion) - From itinerant Yankee peddlers crisscrossing the U.S. after the Civil War, to Dale Carnegie's best-selling books on the art of salesmanship, American capitalism has often been driven by advances in the plying of wares.

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Facebook’s 2012: IPO, a billion users and a shift to mobile

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Hayley Tsukayama - Dec. 25 (News Analysis) - Facebook had what may be the most eventful year in its history in 2012. After months of preparation, the company went public in May -- with some unexpected results.

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The Obscenely Rich Men Bent on Shredding the Safety Net

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Lynn Stuart Parramore - Dec. 04 (News Analysis) - The Campaign to Fix the Debt is a huge, and growing, coalition of powerful CEOs, politicians and policy makers on a mission to lower taxes for the rich and cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid under the cover of concern about the national debt.

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Don't Ask? Internet Still Tells

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Quentin Hardy, Matt Richtel - Nov. 22 (Comment) - Sites like Google and Bing are showing the precise questions that are most frequently asked, giving everyone a chance to peer virtually over one another’s shoulders at private curiosities.

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Media war rages in Gaza

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

aljazeera.com - By Safa Joudeh - Nov. 19 (News Analysis) - Gaza City - Israeli F-16 warplanes fired a missile at the Shawa Hossary media building in the early hours of Saturday morning, directly targeting the offices of Al Quds TV, a Hamas-affiliated satellite channel. The building was damaged, the channel trans

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Did the Obama administration know its Libya protest talk was inaccurate?

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Josh Hicks - Nov. 19 (Opinion) - “It was clear that the State Department was able to witness this in real time. There is no indication that there was a mob. There is no indication that a video was the genesis of this. Why did the administration, for weeks, mislead the American people?

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Iranian Blogger Sattar Beheshti Tortured to Death

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Hooman Askary - Nov. 13 (Opinion) - Iranian netizens have launched a major online storm after the shocking news of a blogger's death in custody was first posted by opposition websites. Sattar Beheshti was arrested on October 28, 2012 and announced dead some ten days after his arrest.

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On Election Night, Young People Tune In to See Their Impact

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New America Media - By Anna Challet - Nov. 07 (News Report) - As election results rolled in Tuesday night, young and first-time voters from schools throughout the Bay Area tuned in to see if their activism had made a difference.

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Newsweek to halt print publication

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Tribune - By Andrew Tangel - Oct. 18 (News) - Newsweek will print its final edition at the end of this year. After nearly 80 years of publication, the news magazine will shift to a digital-only format, available online and on tablet computers, Editor in Chief Tina Brown said on the magazine's website Thursday morning. Its last printed edition will be the Dec. 31 issue.

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MediaShift . How Much Will Social Media Really Affect the U.S. Election?

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PBS - Oct. 18 (News Analysis) - This article discusses the impacts of social media and how it affects what people think of the Election. The activity of millions of people is closely monitored and examined through various graphs and parameters. By studying the results of the data, what people are really talking about can be revealed.

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Facebook reaches 1 billion users milestone

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Priyanka Boghani - Oct. 04 (News) - Facebook announced on Thursday that it had reached the 1 billion active monthly users benchmark last month, in addition to adding 45 million users since June.

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From Arab Spring to Autumn Rage: The Dark Power of Social Media

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Andrew Lam - Sep. 14 (News Analysis) - In 2010 Time Magazine’s prestigious Person of the Year title went to two individuals. While its readers picked Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, Time’s editors picked Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook.

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21st Century Man and the Electronic Halls of Mirrors

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Andrew Lam - Sep. 02 (Special Report) - A tragic and disturbing story from last week involved tweeting. A young woman who was being stalked tweeted her impending doom a few days before her murder. "So scared right now," and "I got me an uglyass stalker" were some of her tweets. Then, closer to her death, she tweeted, "This can't be happening..." In essence, she was broadcasting events leading to her demise.

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