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Facebook adds support for hashtags

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 13 (News) - Facebook is adding support for clickable hashtags to help users keep track of popular topics on the network, a move experts say may boost ad sales.

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Best of the Web Today: 'Hate Crime' Hoaxes

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - May. 03 (Opinion) - Why are they so common, especially on campus?

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Reddit vs. the Media

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - Apr. 18 (Comment) - Two days after the tragedy, Wolf Blitzer of CNN attracts a crowd as he waits to go on air in Copley Square, close to the site of the Boston Marathon bombings, on April 17, 2013. Boston has been inundated with media from around the country and the world.

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Bombing victim who lost both legs has strong ties here

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - Apr. 17 (News Report) - The horrifically injured young man whose photo has become an iconic image of the Boston Marathon bombing is a Flyers fan with deep family roots in Philadelphia and South Jersey.

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Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement's Adoption Obsession

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

Mother Jones - By Kathryn Joyce - Apr. 15 (Comment) - IN 2005, SAM ALLISON, a Tennessee housepainter in his 30s, arrived at Daniel Hoover Children's Village , an orphanage outside Monrovia, Liberia. He'd come to adopt three children, but ended up with four: five-year-old Cherish; her nine-year-old brother, Isaiah; their 13-year-old sister, CeCe, who had taken care of them for years; and Engedi, a sickly infant whom Sam and an adoption broker had retrieved from "deep in the bush." The older children's father had sent them to Daniel Hoover during Liberia's 14-year civil war, after their mother died in childbirth.

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Award for SA anti-fracking activist

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

BBC News - Apr. 15 (News Report) - South African anti-fracking campaigner Jonathan Deal is one of six winners of this year's Goldman Prize, a prestigious environmentalist award.

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All Politics Is Economic

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

New York Times - By Masha Gessen - Apr. 15 (Opinion) - Latitude: How Politics Controls Russia's Media Business

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Immigration reform: Can Mark Zuckerberg and friends deliver?

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 12 (News Analysis) - Mark Zuckerberg and a cast of Silicon Valley players are entering the fray over immigration reform. But the new group, FWD.US, says it's also interested in promoting education reform and scientific research. ...

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Hong Kong Dock Workers Strike Against Long Hours, Low Pay

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Oiwan Lam - Apr. 04 (Opinion) - A strike by Hong Kong dock workers demanding a pay raise and protesting arduous working conditions is delivering a costly blow to the city's port operators and winning widespread sympathy from the public.

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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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A Push for HPV Vaccinations

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Sabrina Tavernise - Mar. 26 (Opinion) - Health professionals hope to make the shots more accessible, and to make the vaccine sound less scary to parents and daughters.

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Brazil Violently Ousts Indigenous Village Ahead of World Cup

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Elisa Thiago - Mar. 25 (News) - Brazilian police violently evicted a group of indigenous people from a building they had occupied in Rio de Janeiro to make way for a sports museum, the latest in a series of evictions that have drawn criticism from human rights defenders as Brazil prepares to host the 2014 World Cup.

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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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Bill Maher On Pope Resignation: Hillary Clinton Should Replace Benedict (VIDEO)

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:55:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Bill Maher - Feb. 16 (Comedy News) - HuffPost Social Reading As far as Bill Maher's concerned, the best possible outcome of the pope resigning is that Catholics will quit as well. The second best possibility: Hillary Clinton will be the next pope. Sure, it may be far-fetched, but as Maher e

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The app-driven life: How smartphone apps are changing our lives

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Jan. 27 - Our app-driven life: Smart-phone apps are becoming the north star for millions of Americans who use them to navigate through life – shopping, playing, reading, dating, learning, and more with their fingertips. ...

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Iran's 'morality police' crack down on coffee shops

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Jan. 23 (News Report) - Popular hangout for Tehrani intellectuals closes after refusing to install surveillance cameras to monitor customers As the June presidential election in Iran draws near, authorities have stepped up political surveillance by ordering coffee shop owners to install cameras on their premises and turn over the recordings on demand. Cameras have proliferated in Tehran coffee shops since last summer. "Most people thought they were part of the security systems installed by owners to protect against theft," one Tehrani said. However the cameras are now required to be on during work hours and police have demanded access to the tapes, according to several business owners. The practice became public when Café Prague, one of the most popular coffee houses in Tehran, closed down last week after its owners refused authorities' orders to install a video system. Café Prague, a stone's throw from Tehran University in the heart of the capital, has been a sanctuary for students, activists and young ...

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Conservatives run ads vs. McConnell

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

The Politico - By Ginger Gibson - Jan. 09 (News Report) - A conservative advocacy group is targeting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell with a series of online ads in his home state for helping to negotiate the fiscal cliff deal.

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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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Justice Refuses To Block Health Care Rule

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post News Team - Dec. 27 (News) - WASHINGTON — to block part of the federal health care law that requires employee health-care...

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The Biggest Climate Change Stories Of 2012

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Joanna Zelman - Dec. 26 - By Wynne Parry, LiveScience Contributor: Global warming was hot news this year, literally. Perhaps the most unavoidable climate story of 2012 was the warmth that...

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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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Fact-checks on gun control and gun violence

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Becky Bowers - Dec. 19 (Fact Check) - The shooting in Newtown, Conn. that killed 26 people has reopened a national debate about gun control. As it unfolds, you might hear some familiar claims : Gun control Under federal

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How poor but sexy Berlin has tapped talent to be Europe's startup capital

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Nadine Schimroszik - Dec. 07 (News) - Startups are springing up all over Berlin, as the once 'poor but sexy' German capital expands into a creative technology hub Berlin is poor, but sexy – Mayor Klaus Wowereit's decade-old slogan still describes Germany's capital very well. Unemployment is high compared with other German cities and businessmen in proper suits and ties are a rare sight. But something in Berlin's attitude towards business is changing. Startups are sprouting all over the capital. Some people are already speaking of Berlin as the Silicon Valley of Europe. Most of the firms are just in their infancy. Others, such as the music platform SoundCloud or the social game developer Wooga are well-known even in California or London. "Berlin is punk meeting tech," says Swedish-born Eric Wahlforss, one of the founders of SoundCloud. According to Wahlforss, Berlin is creative, cheap and full of talented people. And the talents are starting to cluster. SoundCloud is already in the buzzing and expanding tech hub called ...

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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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Companies are Mining your Facebook/ Twitter Info… and Selling it (Beckett)

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

Informed Comment - By Juan - Nov. 11 (Opinion) - Lois Beckett writes at ProPublica Yesterday, we got a rare look at how information on your public social media profiles—including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn—is being harvested and resold by large consumer data companies. Responding to a congressional query, nine data companies provided answers to a detailed set of questions about what kinds of information they [...]

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