William Ian O'Byrne on Twitter: "Must read - Today is #InternetSlowdown Day #netneutrality. Today is #InternetSlowdown Day. The FCC heard from so many Americans who want an Neutral Net that its website crashed. More than a million people told the FCC not to put the cable companies in charge of the Internet -- less than one percent of commenters opposed Net Neutrality. Despite the astroturfers who compared a fair Internet to Communism, messages like the scathing John Oliver rant have carried the day in the court of public opinion. But will it convince the FCC? Will Tom Wheeler, who used to run the cable lobbyists before he became FCC Chairman, listen to his golf buddies and former colleagues, or to the people he has sworn to serve?
Will the FCC be shamed into doing the thing that we all know is right? Well, that's up to us. Today is #InternetSlowdown Day. The net neutrality campaign smashed every FCC comment record. Wiobyrne : Visualizing inspiring quotes ... Visualizing-inspiring-quotes-a. Kevin writes, "With the Privacy is a right project I try to visualize the global privacy debate by using quotes on the subject and turn them into large (in real life) visuals.
I started out with key figures in this debate (such as Edward Snowden, Kirsty Hughes and even Cory Doctorow) but now everyone can react and share their view on the subject by submitting a quote on the site. Any inspiring quote will then be turned into art by me. Some of the visuals will be part of my graduation exposition (25th - 29th of June) for the Willem de Kooning Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. " Privacy is a right.
Copyright. Baby Boomers, Luddites? Not So Fast. - Bits Blog. It’s probably safe to say that Whopper Sacrifice, Burger King’s impish Facebook campaign that offered users free burgers in exchange for dropping 10 friends, wasn’t aimed at retirees. But maybe it should have been. A recent report from Forrester Research indicates that while it might be tempting to categorize all aging Americans as techno-dinosaurs and Luddites, more than 60 percent of baby boomers are avid consumers of social media like blogs, forums, podcasts and online videos. That’s up from roughly 40 percent a year ago. “Traditionally, marketers have had difficulty targeting online communities where boomers are,” said Jeremiah K. Owyang, author of the report and a senior analyst with Forrester Research. But rather than shy away from targeting older consumers on the Internet as a whole, Mr.
“Social media adoption is going up for all generations,” said Mr. It helps that President Obama readily took to social technologies and made them part of his administration, Mr. 27 Huge Publishers Join To Replace The Banner. Do We Need a New Internet? Internet is full of bullies, not pedophiles. Slashdot submitter Kdawson has good news: " A high-profile task force representing 49 state attorneys general was organized to find a solution to the problem of online sexual solicitation. But instead the panel has issued a report (due to be released tomorrow) claiming that 'Social networks are very much like real-world communities that are comprised mostly of good people who are there for the right reasons.' The report concluded that 'the problem of child-on-child bullying, both online and offline, poses a far more serious challenge than the sexual solicitation of minors by adults.'" Well, good news if you're worried about sexual predation on kids.
Not so good if you're worried about bullying. But of course, now that we know that kids are more threatened by the (less-sexy, less-mediagenic) scourge of bullying than the (incredibly scary, totally mediagenic) risk of sexual predation, we'll divert funds and resources to the real risk, right? Right?