Anyone who has been following the debate around newspaper paywalls probably knows I am not a big fan of them as a strategy, for a number of reasons. While I admit they can bring in additional cash — and that can make a big…
One downside of paywalls: Where does your growth come from?
Google: government censorship requests jumped 20% in last six months
Google(s goog) has published its latest Transparency Report and the results are not encouraging for free speech advocates: governments around the world are asking it to remove more content than ever before.
In the second half of…
The McLeveson Group’s Stealth Attack on Social Media
The Draft Press Standards (Scotland) Bill will no doubt be analysed and criticized for its call for…
Want a sheet of fresh E.coli? There’s a printer for that
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnITLnB0Xtc&w=708&h=429]We know that 3-D printers can spit out products from jewelry to digital devices. Then we started hearing about technology that could print out human organs. The concept…
My Piece entitled “The Gun Control Gatekeepers” originally printed in thefirmmagazine.com
On December 8, 2004 a guitarist for a heavy metal band called Pantera (amongst others) named…
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Defending Facebook. My Response to a Privacy Activist.
This is the first of my posts from 2013. I know it is the 28th of December, 2012. Get over it.
On the contrary…
My friend Paul Bernal, an academic at UEA, wrote in his blog post “10 reasons to leave Facebook” well, 10 reasons to leave Facebook, obviously.…
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Now British social media users know the line between ‘troll’ and ‘criminal’
In online life, how offensive is too offensive? That may be a legally irrelevant question in countries that enjoy strong free speech protections, but it’s a very serious question in the UK.
As you may recall, this year saw an…
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Users gain capacity to download full archive of tweets from Twitter
Several Twitter users began noticing Sunday that they now have the ability to download their full archive of tweets, a capability that users have asked for since Twitter’s early days, but which looks like is rolling out to users now,
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Facebook changes privacy policy; public search, app permissions affected
Facebook changes privacy policy; public search, app permissions affected
Facebook is announcing updates to its privacy settings Wednesday, changing both how easy it is for users to make updates to those settings, and making a few changes in how…
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