Hollywood's New War on Software Freedom and Internet Innovation (SOPA) This is the third in our series (Part 1, Part 2) breaking down the potential effects of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), an outrageous and grievously misguided bill now working its way through the House of Representatives.
This post discusses dangerous software censorship provisions that are new in this bill, as well as the DNS censorship provisions it inherited from the Senate's COICA and PIPA bills. Please help us fight this misguided legislation by contacting Congress today. In this new bill, Hollywood has expanded its censorship ambitions. No longer content to just blacklist entries in the Domain Name System, this version targets software developers and distributors as well. It allows the Attorney General (doing Hollywood or trademark holders' bidding) to go after more or less anyone who provides or offers a product or service that could be used to get around DNS blacklisting orders. Do you write or distribute VPN, proxy, privacy or anonymization software? The Why and How of Using Facebook For Educators – No Need to be Friends At All! If you are one of those out there that believe that Facebook has no place in the classroom, then, well maybe this post isn’t for you.
But please first take a look at just a few reasons why you should reconsider: The fact is, the majority of your students and their parents are probably already on FacebookEven when schools have a policy against being “friends” online, there are tools you can use that won’t violate policyDespite what you may hear, there are strong privacy options that you can set up so only those that you want can access your informationWe have an obligation as educators to model appropriate online behavior and learn right along our students From Where do we begin? Just today, Facebook released their own sponsored Facebook For Educators guide, but we found that there really wasn’t enough “how-to” in this guide to make it worth it.
FacebookForEducators.org Should we be “friends” with students? This is certainly a hotly debated question. How to safely “friend” students on facebook. The Door That's Not Locked. The Social Impact of Friendships and Lies. Do you trust me?
Social media relies on the premise that we'll believe what people tell us more readily than if we were told the same thing by a nameless, faceless company. That's why brands go to great lengths to humanize themselves on the social Web. But, a new study by Edelman (whose digital arm features social media and ebusiness genius David Armano) claims that bond is eroding. A survey of 4,875 adults (500 U.S.) world-wide shows that just 25% of respondents said their friends and peers are credible sources of information about companies — a decline of 20% since a similar analysis in 2008. AdAge tried to make hay out of these findings with the provocative headline: “In the Age of Friending, Consumers Trust Their Friends Less.”
With Friends Like These, Who Needs Friends? On the surface, it makes sense. The real shift is in how we define friendship. So sure we have less faith in our “friends” than we used to. Lying By the Seat of Our Pants Reexamine the chart above. Connect: Authored by: Twitter Directory and Search, Find Twitter Followers : WeFollow. I need all the friends I can get « simfin - a discussion about online "friends" - are numbers that important? I spend a lot of time immersed in esafety and security issues and after four years I’m still trying to make sense of where we need to be with this – and it’s rarely as simple as some folk would have you believe.
This piece of writing is intended to help me understand; context, behaviours and meaning relating to online relationships – and these reflections may possibly be of some benefit to others in a similar place. A key area of concern for parents, carers, and those with a responsibility for children, is young people’s perception of the importance and significance of online friends. As adults we are easy with our criticisms of children’s inability to understand the potential dangers of befriending others ‘on the internet’. Teachers look on with horror when they see even young primary school children with hundreds of online friends and frequently see this as wreckless behaviour – leaving the children open to grooming, abduction .. and worse.
So what‘s the problem? Kids: Someone you know.