Как власти читают ваши блоги: расследование Forbes. С завершением избирательного цикла скепсис высших чиновников по отношению к политической активности в интернете стал показным. Даже нынешний премьер-министр Дмитрий Медведев, первым из топ-номенклатуры вышедший в блогосферу и твиттер, теперь сменил тон: темы в сети обсуждаются неправильные, они далеки от реальности.
«Мы вообще этим не занимаемся (тем, что обсуждается в соцсетях. — Forbes), нам на это плевать, я имею в виду всем гражданам страны, за исключением довольно узкой группы людей», — сказал премьер 10 августа на встрече с активом «Единой России». За две недели до этого пресс-секретарь Владимира Путина Дмитрий Песков в разговоре с газетой «Ведомости» язвительно отвечал на вопрос, знают ли в Кремле об опубликованных блогером Алексеем Навальным криминальных фактах из прошлого главного следователя Александра Бастрыкина. Однако за «узкой группой людей», на которую не реагируют, власти на самом деле следят очень внимательно. Призма Володина «Микроскопом забивают гвозди» Reuters Twitter Account Hacked to Post Pro-Syria Messages. New agency Thomson Reuters suffered its second Web security breach in 48 hours after hackers took control of its Twitter account dedicated to technology news, changing the focus to the Middle East and posting a series of pro-Syrian government tweets to its 17,500 followers.
The issue was first noticed late Saturday (US time – h/t @atul) and Reuters has since confirmed the attack, which saw its @ReutersTech account renamed @ReutersME. The account in question has been suspended by Twitter and the news agency revealed that it is conducting an investigation into the issue. Earlier today @reuterstech was hacked and changed to @reutersme. The account has been suspended and is currently under investigation— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 5, 2012 A screenshot — via @worldwidenieuws – show’s the renamed account while it was under third-party control: The image isn’t particularly clear but, according to Twitter search engine Topsy, a number of the tweets included: Headline image via BusinessWeek. Global: A Marathon to Translate the Declaration of Internet Freedom. The world may be glued to the TV to watch the start of the Olympic Games in London, but Global Voices Lingua translators are excited about another challenge: the Internet Freedom Translathon, a marathon to get the Declaration of Internet Freedom translated in as many languages and dialects as possible over the course of 24 hours on Friday August 3.
Everyone can join: you don't have to be an Olympic athlete or professional translator to help! Freedom! : Design by Juan Osborne using the word ‘freedom’ in about fifty languages. Publish under Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) Lingua is partnering with New American Foundation and Free Press to provide official versions of the declaration in a number of languages. This means that there is one language for every 862,000 people on Earth: Europe alone accounts for only 234 of them, whereas in Asia 2,322 languages are spoken on a daily basis. Mitt Romney fake Twitter followers: Who's buying them? Screenshot As of last Friday, Mitt Romney’s Twitter account had about 690,000 followers.
That’s more than you or me (oh, hush, John Dickerson), but it’s a paltry number compared to that of Romney’s opponent: @BarackObama boasts some 18 million. On a typical day in the past month, Romney’s Twitter account has gained 3,000 to 4,000 new followers, according to Zach Green, whose blog 140elect.com tracks campaign-related Twitter trends. So when Romney’s follower count began growing by the thousands on Friday evening, Green took notice. In a post titled, “Is Mitt Romney Buying Twitter Followers?” Liberals on Twitter jumped on the case, noting that many of Mitt’s new fans appeared to be fake—spambots, pornbots, and accounts set up purely to inflate other accounts’ follower count. Was Romney’s campaign buying Twitter followers? In Romney’s case, though, the apparent spike in fake followers has seemed to delight his opponents, while offering little benefit to his campaign.
Declarations of Cyberwar. Mouths went agape when New York Times reporter David Sanger wrote in June that anonymous sources within the United States government admitted that the United States and Israel were indeed the authors of the Stuxnet worm and related malware. Those two countries had long been suspected of creating the code that wrecked centrifuges at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility. But never before had a government come so close to claiming responsibility for a cyberattack. The origins of the most sophisticated cyberattacks ever undertaken may now be clear, but exactly where such attacks fit in the universe of war and foreign policy—and what the international community would consider a proper response to them—is still the subject of debate. A particularly important question is what sort of cyberattack is the equivalent of a traditional armed attack.
The Tallinn Manual is a nonbinding yet authoritative restatement of the law of armed conflict as it relates to cyberwar. Lemonde2223juilletpe220121. Who invented the Internet?: The outrageous conservative claim that every tech innovation came from private enterprise. Photograph by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. Earlier this month, President Obama argued that wealthy business people owe some of their success to the government’s investment in education and basic infrastructure. He cited roads, bridges, and schools. Then he singled out the most clear-cut example of how government investment can spark huge business opportunities: the Internet. Farhad Manjoo is a technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the author of True Enough.
Follow “The Internet didn’t get invented on its own,” Obama said. Until recently this wouldn’t have been a controversial statement. Suddenly, though, the government’s role in the Internet’s creation is being cast into doubt. “It's important to understand the history of the Internet because it's too often wrongly cited to justify big government,” Crovitz says.
Crovitz’s entire yarn is almost hysterically false. If you spend time looking at the history of the Internet, you’ll find the government there at every step. How Government Did (and Didn't) Invent the Internet. Last night, I happened across an article by Slate technology scribe Farhad Manjoo. He was responding to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by the Journal’s former publisher Gordon Crovitz. And when Manjoo explained just what Crovitz was opining about, I felt my jaw drop to the floor as if I were a character in a 1940s cartoon. Crovitz, apparently riled up over Barack Obama’s “you didn’t build that” kerfuffle, has an example of something that the government is widely misperceived to have built: the Internet. He actually says, “It’s an urban legend that the government launched the Internet.” As Manjoo points out, Crovitz’s argument — which rests largely on his contention that the Internet was really created at Xerox’s legendary PARC lab — is bizarrely, definitively false.
Also factual: DARPA was where Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf invented TCP/IP, the plumbing that makes the Internet possible. (Crovitz, incidentally, credits Berners-Lee for the hyperlink. Social media is more than simply a marketing tool for academic research | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional. According to Jeff Jarvis, author of Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live, thanks to the internet, "we all have our Gutenberg presses and the privileges they accord.
" For academic institutions, the internet is a largely untapped resource for shaping and sharing scholarly research. As with the Gutenberg press, maybe professors are worried about permanently penning their ideas into cyberspace. Others may worry about privacy, especially regarding social networking. But social media and the internet have transformative powers, allowing faculty to form powerful connections and reach new audiences that previously couldn't be accessed from the ivory tower. For the past year, I've been working with the faculty and research institutes at NYU's Robert F.
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service to integrate and enhance the social media efforts used to promote its events, programmes and publications. This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional. About this Study. Twitter has become a new way to communicate with world leaders and a way for these leaders to communicate with each other. On the one hand it allows heads of state and government to broadcast their daily activities and government news to an ever-growing audience, on the other, it allows citizens direct access to their leaders. Anyone can @mention a world leader on Twitter. Whether the world leader answers is another question, although a select few do actually reply to their followers’ @mentions.
“Life is tweet”, former UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott recently wrote in The Guardian: “Twitter has given me a voice and a connection to millions of people that the distorted prism of the mainstream media denied.” Indeed, a few world leaders use Twitter precisely to debunk false information and correct media reports. Two thirds of all world leaders on Twitter Presidents, prime ministers or their institutions in 125 countries have a presence on Twitter. Barack Obama Superstar. Survey: 98% of Americans Don't Trust the Internet. We know you won’t believe us when we say this, but: 98% of people distrust the Internet. It’s true, according to a study conducted by market-research firm Harris Interactive: nearly all of us find a reason to discredit the information we read online. According to Mashable, the firm surveyed 1,900 Americans, yielding the overwhelming statistic that we have little trust in the information we find online.
Ninety-four percent of those were worried about so-called “bad things,” such as wasting their time or even getting a computer virus. Losing money and being a victim of fraud online was a key concern for about half of those respondents. Meanwhile, about 56% of those distrusting surfers feared that information online was outdated, while 53% felt of material was self-promotional. Sure, it’s the classic salesman trick: Can you really trust product advice from a person who gets paid if you buy it from them? Forty-five percent felt unfamiliar with the sources and forums that they were browsing.
AllTwitter - The Unofficial Twitter Resource. What Do Twitter, Facebook, Google And Pinterest Know About YOU? [INFOGRAPHIC] Apple Buying into Twitter: Neither Likely nor Implausible. We already know that Apple is a Twitter fan. It’s baked the social network into both of its operating systems, OS X and iOS, in a manner that’s a departure from its tradition of building every possible aspect of its products itself. Now Evelyn M. Rusli and Nick Bilton of the New York Times are reporting that the relationship could lead to something a lot more significant: In recent months, Apple has been in discussions to buy a chunk of Twitter.
In another report, Shira Ovide and Jessica E. Rusli and Bilton say that negotiations aren’t currently in progress, and that the conversation has involved Apple spending in the hundreds of millions in a deal that could value Twitter at more than $10 billion, which would mean that Apple would be taking a stake of less than 10 percent. The notion of a deal between the two companies is nothing new: It dates back at least as far as May 2009, when rumor had it they were deep in discussions of a potential Apple buyout of Twitter.