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The Facebook Illusion

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ross Douthat - May. 27 (Opinion) - There were two grand illusions about the American economy in the first decade of the 21st century. One was the idea that housing prices were no longer tethered to normal economic trends, and instead would just keep going up and up. The second was the idea that in the age of Web 2.0, we were well on our way to figuring out how to make lots and lots of money on the Internet.

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After Facebook fails

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Harvard Blogs - By Doc Searls - May. 24 (Opinion) - At the heart of the Internet business is one of the great business fallacies of our time: that the Web, with all its targeting abilities, can be a more efficient, and hence more profitable, advertising medium than traditional media. Facebook, with its 90

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SpaceX Launches Private Capsule on Historic Trip to Space Station

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Yahoo! News - May. 22 - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private space capsule called Dragon soared into the predawn sky Tuesday, riding a pillar of flame like its beastly namesake on a history-making trip to the International Space Station.

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Do You Want the Good News First?

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Thomas L. Friedman - May. 19 (Opinion) - I’ve spent the last week traveling to two of America’s greatest innovation hubs — Silicon Valley and Seattle — and the trip left me feeling a combination of exhilaration and dread. The excitement comes from not only seeing the stunning amount of innovation emerging from the ground up, but from seeing the new tools coming on stream that are, as Amazon.com’s founder, Jeff Bezos, put it to me, “eliminating all the gatekeepers” — making it easier and cheaper than ever to publish your own book, start your own company and chase your own dream. Never have individuals been more empowered, and we’re still just at the start of this trend.

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How Facebook's Elite Skirt Estate Tax

Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - May. 12 (News Report) - Mark Zuckerberg and other insiders appear to be using special trusts to shield their shares from gift or estate taxes. Investors are focusing on Facebook's FB 0.00% offering price as the company prepares to go public as soon as next week. Tax specialists are paying attention to something else: how half a dozen of the firm's luminaries, including founder Mark Zuckerberg, appear to be using a perfectly legal maneuver called a grantor-retained annuity trust, or GRAT, to avoid at least $200 million of estate and gift taxes on their own Facebook shares.

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The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Alexis Madrigal - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - We're there. The future that visionaries imagined in the late 1990s of phones in our pockets and high-speed Internet in the air: Well, we're living in it. "The third generation of data and voice communications -- the convergence of mobile phones and the Internet, high-speed wireless data access, intelligent networks, and pervasive computing -- will shape how we work, shop, pay bills, flirt, keep appointments, conduct wars, keep up with our children, and write poetry in the next century."

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Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and Facebook

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Ian Katz, Tim Berners-Lee - Apr. 18 (Interview) - Exclusive: world wide web inventor says personal data held online could be used to usher in new era of personalised services Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the world wide web, has urged internet users to demand their personal data from online giants such as Google and Facebook to usher in a new era of highly personalised computer services "with tremendous potential to help humanity". Berners-Lee, the British born MIT professor who invented the web three decades ago, says that while there has been an explosion of public data made available in recent years, individuals have not yet understood the value to them of the personal data held about them by different web companies. In an interview with the Guardian, Berners-Lee said: "My computer has a great understanding of my state of fitness, of the things I'm eating, of the places I'm at. My phone understands from being in my pocket how much exercise I've been getting and how many stairs I've been walking up and so on." Exploiting ...

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Texas A&M Cadets to be led by 1st black commander

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Yahoo! News - By Michael Graczyk - Apr. 12 (News) - Nearly a half-century after African-Americans were admitted to predominantly white Texas A&M University, a black student has finally reached the pinnacle of one of its signature organizations. ...

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Selling You on Facebook

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Apr. 07 (News Report) - Many popular Facebook apps obtain sensitive information about users—and users' friends—so don't be surprised if details about your religious, political and even sexual preferences start popping up in unexpected places.

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The State of the News Media 2012

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Pew Research - By Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel - Mar. 25 (Special Report) - In 2011, the digital revolution entered a new era. The age of mobile, in which people are connected to the web wherever they are, arrived in earnest. More than four in ten American adults now own a smartphone. One in five owns a tablet. New cars are manufactured with internet built in. With more mobility comes deeper immersion into social networking. For news, the new era brings mixed blessings. New research released in this report finds that mobile devices are adding to people’s news consumption, strengthening the lure of traditional news brands and providing a boost to long-form journalism. Eight in ten who get news on smartphones or tablets, for instance, get news on conventional computers as well. People are taking advantage, in other words, of having easier access to news throughout the day – in their pocket, on their desks and in their laps. At the same time, a more fundamental challenge that we identified in this report last year has intensified — the extent to which technology intermediaries now control the future of news.

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What Journalists Need to Know About Facebook’s New Interest Lists

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Journalism.org - By Jeff Sonderman - Mar. 11 (Review) -

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Building Sustainable Future Needs More Than Science, Experts Say

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Inter Press Service - Feb. 19 (News) - VANCOUVER, Feb 19, 2012 (IPS) - Contrary to popular belief, humans have failed to address the earth's worsening emergencies of climate change, species' extinction and resource overconsumption not because of a lack of information, but because of a lack of

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Iran chokes Internet at politically sensitive time

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:05:00 -0800

Dawn - By Afp - Feb. 13 - The strangulation of the Internet is making life very difficult for many Iranian businesses.—File photo Access to the Internet’s most-used sites and tools is being choked in Iran at a politically charged period, blocking communication channels for local

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'Dear Bank of America...' Defiant Daughter's Letter Saves Family Home From Foreclosure (Maybe)

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Alex Brant-Zawadzki - Jan. 24 (News Report) - Dear Bank of America, Called the nice lady at the CEO's office. She said that they had received my letter and are willing to work with my parents and drafted up an offer for them. She said it is in the mail, but couldn't disclose the details. When I aske

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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords stepping down

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:07:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By By Ashley Powers, Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times - Jan. 23 (News) - Rep. of Arizona, who came to symbolize hope and resilience as she tenaciously recovered from a gunshot wound to the head during the last year, announced she would resign from Congress to concentrate on her recovery. Giffords, 41, announced her plans in a

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How will technology influence the news in 2012?

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Dan Gillmor - Dec. 29 (Opinion) - Predicting the next year's news is a fool's errand, but looking at technological trends could give us a hint At the beginning of 2011, aging dictators ruled Egypt and Libya, and despotism was the nearly unquestioned reality in most of the Middle East. The eurozone was seeing trouble at its edges, but wasn't heading toward collapse. News International had successfully covered up most of its rampant bad acts, and Rupert Murdoch was on the verge of even greater control over British media and politics. Anyone who might have predicted how utterly and rapidly those realities would change might have been branded a lunatic. Which is one reason why the annual journalistic ritual of making predictions about the year ahead is a fool's errand. With that in mind, let me offer instead some observations about the technology and media trends we've seen in past months, and how they might play out in 2012. In many cases, the trajectory is deeply worrisome. But I remain an eternal optimist in the face of ...

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Bits Blog: Twitter Tries to Simplify Its Service

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Somini Sengupta - Dec. 09 (Opinion) - Twitter announced a new design for its service that the company hopes will draw new users, keep them on the site longer and persuade paid advertisers to follow them there.

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How news orgs are reaching millions through Facebook’s new apps

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Poynter Institute - By Jeff Sonderman - Nov. 30 (News Analysis) - It has been over two months since Facebook announced a new class of social news applications — ones that automatically share links to everything a person reads. Now we are learning more about the readership, strategies and effects of these “open graph” or “frictionless sharing” apps. Here are the six big lessons so far.

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The Apologies of Zuckerberg: A Retrospective

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Liz Gannes - Nov. 29 (News Analysis) - At this point, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pattern on privacy is clear. Launch new stuff that pushes the boundaries of what people consider comfortable. Apologize and assure users that they control their information, but rarely pull back entirely, and

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Facebook post says Congress has disproportionate share of millionaires

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Angie Drobnic Holan - Nov. 21 (Fact Check) - Over the past two months, the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread to cities around the country, and those other movements are busy putting out messages that protest against income inequality. A reader recently sent us an example from Facebook, which w

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Is Lying On The Internet Illegal?

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - Nov. 16 (Special Report) - Under a Department of Justice interpretation of existing law, it's possible for the government to bring charges against Internet users who for example lie about their weight on Match.com.

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Fact checking the CNBC debate

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Nov. 11 (Fact Check) - Well, we’re glad we don’t have to fact check the number of federal agencies Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants to eliminate. Though the CNBC debate may only be remembered for the very awkward moment when Perry could only name two of the three on his list, here are some of the more dubious facts we heard last night — some of which were suggested by readers using #factcheckthis on Twitter or our Facebook page. As always, we may look deeper at some of these issues later in the week.

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Why Parents Help Tweens Violate Facebook's 13+ Rule

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Danah Boyd - Nov. 01 (Opinion) - "At what age should I let my child join Facebook?" This is a question that countless parents have asked my collaborators and me. Often, it's followed by the following: "I know that 13 is the minimum age to join Facebook, but is it really so bad that my 12-year-old is on the site?" While parents are struggling to determine what social media sites are appropriate for their children, government tries to help parents by regulating what data internet companies can collect about children without parental permission. Yet, as has been the case for the last decade, this often backfires. Many general-purpose communication platforms and social media sites restrict access to only those 13+ in response to a law meant to empower parents: the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This forces parents to make a difficult choice: help uphold the minimum age requirements and limit their children's access to services that let kids connect with family and friends OR help their children lie about their age to circumvent the age-based restrictions and eschew the protections that COPPA is meant to provide.

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In This Rape Center, the Patient Was 3

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:51:32 -0700

New York Times - Oct. 08 (Opinion) -

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Editorial: Our man in Damascus

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Editorial - Sep. 17 (Opinion) - Why Ambassador Robert S. Ford deserves confirmation.

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