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Granting Anonymity - NYTimes.com
A deliberately byzantine system of virtual tunnels that conceal the origins and destinations of data, and thus the identity of clients, Tor has been around since 2001, when programmers from and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory introduced it at a California security conference. In the past year, supported by grants from the U.S. government and other funders, the Tor Project has prolifically expanded its networks. The software has been downloaded more than 36 million times this year, and thousands of nameless volunteers — many of them Tor clients — now help to relay mind-bogglingly diverse Tor data in nearly every country on earth.
40 New Social Media Resources You May Have Missed
Merry early Christmas from the Mashable team! — wait, did you get your shopping done? The weeks before Christmas are notable for the beautiful store displays and the harried men and women desperately trying to buy that last perfect present; or any present at all. If you’ve been part of that crush, or just need a social media refresher, we’ve got a round up of tools and resources from the past week or so. The social media section can show you some creative Facebook profile hacks or why health experts are hopping online. Tech & mobile is jam packed with gadget guides, children’s books on the iPad , and 10 top movies for the modern geek.
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware . Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware helped virtualize 12 business critical database applications . In our last post on data journalism, we ran across a number of tools that would be helpful for anyone who is interested in how to make sense of data. The tools represent a renaissance in how we make sense of our information culture.
5 Tools for Online Journalism, Exploration and Visualization - ReadWriteCloud
October 4, 2010 By Robert Hernandez 1 comment |
Two new social media tools to watch for use in Web journalism
Diigo – your outboard brain
Technologies such as Diigo make it possible to amass a personal library of any size. Having access to the information you need amplifies your memory giving you an outboard brain. The social aspects of Technologies such as Diigo make it possible to amass a personal library of any size. Having access to the information you need amplifies your memory giving you an outboard brain.
Livescribe, the Pen That Never Forgets - NYTimes.com
To refresh her memory, Dervishaj pulled out her math notebook. But her class notes were not great: she had copied several sample problems but hadn’t written a clear explanation of how exponents work. She didn’t need to. Dervishaj’s entire grade 7 math class has been outfitted with “smart pens” made by Livescribe, a start-up based in Oakland, Calif. The pens perform an interesting trick: when Dervishaj and her classmates write in their notebooks, the pen records audio of whatever is going on around it and links the audio to the handwritten words. If her written notes are inadequate, she can tap the pen on a sentence or word, and the pen plays what the teacher was saying at that precise point.How to live stream events ~ Stephen's Web
Interesting exploration of some live streaming options, including Livestream , Watershed and NetroMedia . I view this as an exploration, far from the final word, of what is a rapidly expanding and interesting type of online content. Related is discussion of what are now being called amplified events , and you can amplify anything and escape the constraints of space and time. (Hits Today: 4 Total: 1775) [ Direct Link ] [Tags: none] Comments