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Could Facebook, Twitter Be Charged Under Thailand's Computer Crime Act?
On June 3 of last year, MediaShift published the article "Crisis in Thailand Leads to Net Crackdown, Censorship" on the harassment journalists and netizens faced as political clashes arose in the country. Many of the comments in a long thread following its publication mentioned the monarchy. Some of the comments were just opinions, but according to the lese-majesté law, they... more »
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How Design Links Storytelling to Social Enterprise
That a story can give voice to a cause and incite a social movement is an old concept. But at a recent gathering of more than 100 documentary filmmakers, social entrepreneurs and designers, the real question was not whether stories can make change happen, but how to make storytelling a systemic part of how a social enterprise disseminates its message... more »
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Daily Must Reads, March 16, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. E-book pricing lawsuit moves ahead (NYT) 2. General Motors plans to pull the plug on its Facebook ads (WSJ) 3. Despite its huge population, Google+ is a 'virtual tumbleweed town' (Businessweek) 4. Bitly may be launching a real-time viral search engine (The Verge) 5. Flipboard...
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Journalism and Digital Education Roundup, May 15, 2012
The best stories across the web on journalism and digital education 1. Students with computer science degrees are in high demand this year (Bloomberg) 2. Libraries in this county are buying, not leasing, e-books (Boing Boing) 3. Tax increase could bring iPads to classrooms in S.C. (Island Packet) 4. Teacher behind Calif. school's iPad program gets laid off (NBC) 5....
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Daily Must Reads, May 15, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Former head of Murdoch U.K. newspaper empire faces charges in hacking scandal (NYT) 2. Facebook bumps up its share price (Washington Post) 3. Should This American Life fact-check David Sedaris stories? (Poynter) 4. With a new CEO in place, can Yahoo focus on becoming a...
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Why Now Is the Time for Media Innovation in Africa
In Africa, where mobile news and digital innovation are growing but startup capital is too often scarce, innovators have a unique opportunity to help reinvent media: the African News Innovation Challenge. The newly launched contest, modeled on the Knight News Challenge, will award $1 million (in increments of $12,500 to $100,000) to projects that create new ways to tell stories,...
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Infographic: Moms Hold Big Influence Online
This post and infographic originally appeared on the Nielsen blog Nielsen Wire here. It is reused here with permission. Moms are often at the center of their family's offline life, so it's little surprise that they're also at the center of many of the biggest trends online as well. Whether to look up the latest product reviews or to connect...
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Daily Must Reads, May 14, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Following resume snafu, Yahoo CEO to step down (AllThingsD) 2. Google's head of news compares newspapers to Yahoo (GigaOm) 3. A collection of how-to links for Pinterest users (The Buttry Diary) 4. How Facebook can keep growing: Be the best search engine, ever (Adweek) 5....
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The First Amendment Should Protect Everyone's Right to Record
Since September, police have arrested dozens of journalists and activists around the country for the "crime" of trying to document political protests in public spaces. People using smartphones and mobile devices are changing the way we record and share breaking news. In return, police have targeted, harassed, and in many cases, arrested those trying to capture images and video of...
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Poll: What's Your Philosophy on Paying for Online Content?
Pay walls, metered walls, subscriptions, micro-payments. There are so many ways that online publishers are considering charging visitors for content. While most content online was free in the old days of the web, more publications are following the lead of WSJ.com and NYTimes.com and putting up some kind of pay wall -- leaky or not. So what's your philosophy on...
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Daily Must Reads, May 11, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Google wins 763 domain names containing the word 'google' (The Next Web) 2. Twitter buys tech, talent of personalized email marketing service (TechCrunch) 3. HBO partners with weekly newsmagazine "Vice" (Variety) 4. Orange County Register plans another news mob (Romenesko) 5. How Atlantic Media evolved...
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Mediatwits #48: Yahoo CEO Under Fire; Pros and Cons of Metered Pay Walls
Welcome to the 48th episode of the Mediatwits podcast, with Mark Glaser and the Rafat Ali as co-hosts. On this show, we turn to the chaotic soap opera that continues at Yahoo, once an Internet darling on its umpteenth remake. Its new CEO Scott Thompson appears to have padded his bio with a computer science degree that he never received....
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