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The Up-Goer Five Text Editor. Screenfly by QuirkTools — Test Your Website at Different Screen Resolutions. Danielle Sucher › Jailbreak the Patriarchy: my first Chrome extension. I just released my first Chrome extension!

Danielle Sucher › Jailbreak the Patriarchy: my first Chrome extension

It’s called Jailbreak the Patriarchy, and if you’re running Chrome, you can head over here to install it. What does it do? Jailbreak the Patriarchy genderswaps the world for you. When it’s installed, everything you read in Chrome (except for gmail, so far) loads with pronouns and a reasonably thorough set of other gendered words swapped. For example: “he loved his mother very much” would read as “she loved her father very much”, “the patriarchy also hurts men” would read as “the matriarchy also hurts women”, that sort of thing. This makes reading stuff on the internet a pretty fascinating and eye-opening experience, I must say.

What if you need to read something on the web exactly as it was written? Running this extension will not trap you outside the asylum. When you click that button, it basically toggles the patriarchy. Why create such a thing? I’m not much an ebook reader myself, so a Chrome extension feels much more useful to me. Other Notes. Field Guide to Secret Audio and Video Recordings. Censors catch up with China’s ‘micro film’ movement. By Agence France-PresseMonday, July 16, 2012 2:07 EDT Boasting tens of millions of views and offering previously unheard of artistic freedoms, China’s “micro film” movement has made it possible for anyone with a smartphone to become a moviemaker. Until last week the Internet-based films — made by everyone from first timers to established directors — existed in a grey area in terms of censorship, with content screened by host Internet portals. But with the phenomenon seeing two years of rapid growth, Beijing has tightened scrutiny, vowing to prevent “unhealthy content”.

The impact of the new restrictions in China’s already heavily regulated cyberspace remains to be seen, with mainland filmmakers having come to see the micro movies as a haven from box-office pressure and a means of artistic release. “This type of film allows almost anyone to be a director,” veteran mainland Chinese filmmaker and Academy Award nominee Gu Changwei, 54, told AFP.

Agence France-Presse. Legal and How-to Guides for Citizen Media Creators and Online Publishing. New Media Rights is a non-profit, independently funded program of California Western School of Law that provides legal services, education, and public policy advocacy for Internet users and creators.

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Contact us for help. If you support our work please donate today to show your support! 30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use. As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, “information overload” is something we all seem to suffer. It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the “stuff” out there and pluck out the best, most share-worthy tidbits of information, especially if your topic is niche. Let’s face it, Google definitely has its shortcomings when it comes to content curation and the more it tries to cater to all audiences, the less useful it becomes.

The demand for timely, relevant content that is specific to our unique interests and perspectives has given rise to a new generation of tools that aim to help individuals and companies curate content from the web and deliver it in a meaningful way. These new tools range from simple, application-specific types such as social media aggregators and discovery engines, to more complex, full-blown publishing solutions for organizations. Comments(65)