WordPress 3.8 update comes with a new admin and default theme
Jonah Peretti: Unknown Internet Hero
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9 Word Cloud Generators That Aren’t Wordle
A comparison of the top media databases
Peering into the future of Media
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7 Essential Tips for WordPress Beginners – Copyblogger
This article has 7 essential tips for WordPress beginners.
10 ways to learn how to Use Prezi
Google offers hands-free voice search for computers running Chrome
Yelp Adds SeatMe Reservation Booking To Business Listings
Justices won’t hear appeal of NY internet taxation
Every Day A Post of WordPress Tips and Tricks until Christmas!
Police urge online caution on Cyber Monday as cyber crime rockets.
Microsoft Rolls Out Student Advantage, Giving Students Free Access To Its Office Suite | TechCrunch
I’m pretty sure GMU subscribes to Office 365, which means that you can get Microsoft Office products for free while you’re enrolled here. Quite a deal. Or you could use OpenOffice, the open source alternative.
Word Cloud Tutorial (wordle.net)
WordPress Proven as the Most Powerful Blogging Platform
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How to download a full backup copy of Wikipedia
Women Battle Online Hate From the ‘Manosphere’
Google could end China’s web censorship in 10 days – why doesn’t it?
Timeline of Video Game Consoles Released in North America
Who Uses Digital Marketing Most Successfully on Thanksgiving?
No special characters required: Password app uses facial recognition
UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol)
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Sorting the Real Sandy Photos From the Fakes – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
Here’s a great story related to the issue Milan raised of authenticity in photographs — during any disaster, lots of fake photos circulate, such as these “from” Superstorm Sandy.
Tumblr Is Not What You Think | TechCrunch
An article from February about what “actually” gets done on Tumblr, and why it’s so popular with our age group.
8 Tips and Tricks to Get the Most Out of Project Gutenberg
Making The Web Faster With SPDY
Why Don’t People Want to Read E-books on Tablets?
Update: Skype being investigated over NSA spying links
Is The Trans Pacific Partnership Extreme Censorship?
ICANN ‘coalition’ created to tackle concerns about the future of the Internet
Lady Gaga slams her own Glamour magazine cover for photoshop
David Karp Paid $81 Million too much for Tumblr
This article discusses a power struggle between David Karp and the new CEO of Tumblr.
James Van Der Beek on Dawson’s Creek and 1998 — Vulture
Just for fun, a story about James Van der Beek guy who was on “Dawson’s Creek,” which was *THE* hot show in 1998, and some of the differences between being famous then and being famous now. On the one hand, you’re more exposed now (thanks, iPhone); on the other hand, there are more ways to make pieces of ‘the real you’ public: ” At least on Twitter, I put out some bits of my sense of humor. Whereas in ’98, when I was being mobbed by girls, they were just looking to go crazy about anything and could use the excuse, you know, to scream and go mad.”
Just FYI, I myself have never seen Dawson’s Creek, but I remember when it was big, and I know someone who’s rewatching all the episodes on Netflix now and live-tweeting them.
Which US city has the fastest Internet access? Wrong!
What Your Children Are Doing On The Internet
In Preparation for the Final Project
FCKH8 campaign against anti-gay Russian law ignites Tumblr controversy
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Possible U.N. telecommunications treaty?
Duck Duck Go’s Post-PRISM Growth Actually Proves No One Cares About “Private” Search
Blogger Statistics (INFOGRAPHIC)
Copyright Law in Downloading Music
How the Internet Has Changed the R.S.V.P.
U.S. Postal Service to deliver Amazon packages on Sundays – latimes.com
Interesting fact from this news article about the effect of the Internet on the postal service: “Spokeswoman Sue Brennan said that letter mail volume is declining “so extremely,” yet package volume is “increasing in double-digit percentages.””
YouTube Faces Backlash for Google+ Integration
Stuxnet Infection and the International Space Station
Talk:DuckDuckGo – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here’s the discussion page about that misleading Wikipedia article about DuckDuckGo, if you’re interested.
First Look at Aaron Swartz Documentary ‘The Internet’s Own Boy’
A couple of people wanted to do research on Aaron Swartz, who was arrested under the Computer Fraud Act for unauthorized use of MIT’s network to download “all of JSTOR,” presumably for rerelease onto the open web. Here’s an article about a forthcoming documentary on him.
Are These People Building Their Own Internet?
Fascinating article on grassroots alternatives to paying a company like Verizon for Internet access. If enough of these community-built networks come into being and link to each other, we’ll have a brand-new Internet!
Google Books ruling is a huge victory for online innovation
Big news today: a ten-year-old lawsuit about Google Book Search has been resolved in Google’s favor — basically, the law has ruled that it was okay for Google to scan in-copyright books because it had no plans to publish the whole version of those in-copyright books online in http://books.google.com. Compare this to what we’ve heard about celebrity photographs and Pinterest. Here’s a quotation from the story:
“When Google started work on its book search engine a decade ago, the company realized that getting the approval of copyright holders would be a logistical nightmare. Not only would major publishers likely demand high fees for permission to scan their books, but for many older works, it would be difficult to even figure out who the appropriate copyright holder was. So Google took a gamble, scanning library books without seeking copyright holders’ permission and relying on copyright’s fair use doctrine as a justification.”
Coin » Use One Coin for All of Your Cards
Sorry if this double-posts, I had to switch windows.
So this is less “internet” and more “tech innovation”, but it was so cool I just had to share it.
This company has developed a piece of hardware (shaped exactly like a credit card), that can actually be swiped in credit card machines, that holds all of your personal credit, debit, and gift card information. You switch between cards using a button on the device, you add them to the card via a phone app and an attached card swiper, and as it’s linked to your phone, it’ll alert you if you get too far away from the card (in the case of leaving it on a table and walking away, or forgetting your wallet on the way out of the house, for example).
Yelp effect reshapes how businesses interact with customers
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Digital Millennium Copyright Act
HowStuffWorks “10 Worst Computer Viruses of All Time”
The presentation on the first computer worm on Monday made me want to check out other cases of major computer viruses.
Help tips on creating and presenting our projects.
Zotero vs. Endnote for citations
Library databases vs Search engines – YouTube
A nice little video from A New Zealand library explaining the difference between a search engine and a database. I noticed a bit of confusion about this on exam 2.
A web page for all of your favorite social media
List of free and open source software
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
Don’t forget about the Internet Archive and especially the Wayback Machine in your research — lots of good free stuff here, and you can look at what websites looked like years ago.
How to Laugh Online in Other Languages
19 Apps to Boost Concentration
Madalyn’s presentation informed all of us on how Instagram started and about its founder, Kevin Systrom. This article explains to new feature of Instagram. Now your followers can view photos that other people have uploaded and you can be tagged in photos as well.
How to Give a Killer Presentation
How to Give Kind Criticism, and Avoid Being Critical
Open Access Week: The Future of Libraries and Wikipedia
Inspiring Entrepreneurs: What Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has Learned in his Business Career
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: DMCA Safe Harbor
Here’s a description of the “Safe Harbor” provision of the 1998 DMCA, which allows sites like YouTube and Pinterest to operate without (too much) fear of copyright lawsuits.
Can Automated Editorial Tools Help Wikipedia’s Declining Volunteer Workforce?
Open-source software projects need to improve
Here’s how The Post covered the ‘grand social experiment’ of the Internet in 1988
Oddly enough, today the Washington Post has chosen to reprint a 1988 article about the Internet; that article mentions Robert Tappan Morris, the first person prosecuted under the Computer Fraud Act, whom Brittney Douress told us about today. Nice timing, Brittney! 🙂
1994/1995 Flatland BBS Menu Screen | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Okay, here’s a picture that roughly approximates how people used to interact with the Internet before there was a Web. All through text, all through a CLI (command-line interface). I started grad school in 1992 and this is pretty much what we had. This too is what that 1988 Washington Post article is thinking of when it talks about Internet.
File:PineScreenShot.png – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here’s the CLI program I used to read email at the University of Virginia in 1992, when I first started using the Internet. Again, not the web. It didn’t exist yet.
How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees
Turns out yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the worm that Robert Tappan Morris released, so here’s another Washington Post article on him. Again, great timing, Britney! Be sure to consult this for your final project.
Here’s what the Morris Worm prosecutor thinks about Aaron Swartz
More on Robert Tappan Morris, plus a comparison to Aaron Swartz (whom a few of you know about). Swartz was charged in 2011 or 2012 (I forget which) under the same law Morris was, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and committed suicide in January.
Jon Postel’s Induction into the Internet Hall of Fame
Reddit and the Presidential Election
Internet Archive’s S.F. office damaged in fire – SFGate
Bummer — the physical location of http://archive.org has been damaged in a fire. The cause was a spark from a scanner. Yikes.
Scanning Center Fire — Please Help Rebuild | Internet Archive Blogs
“Fire in the Scanning Center” is a great caption for a photo. Glad no one was hurt, and that the Internet Archive continues to operate.
Does the internet have a sexism problem?
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18 Tips for Killer Presentations
These are just some tips that can help us all with our presentations. Some of them are for a lengthier presentation but overall the are pretty helpful!
10 Tips for More Effective PowerPoint Presentations
How To Make A Great Presentation
Top five online presentation tools
“7 Ways To Keep Audience Attention During Your Presentation”
The 6 Best Business Presentation Software Alternatives To PowerPoint
Uuencoding – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A friend of mine on Twitter said that he remembers when the MIME format for email attachments was competing with the UUencode format for email attachments — kind of like VHS versus Betamax. Here’s the Wikipedia article on the format that lost.
10 Memorization Tips for More Effective Study Sessions
Why the world’s technology giants are investing in Africa
Google Has Gone ‘Dark’: The Search Giant Just Ended Its Free Data And People Are Freaking Out
Embattled Snowden email provider returns with new Dark Mail encryption service | The Verge
We heard from Mahrokh the other day about Snowden’s email provider Lavabit shutting down — turns out they’ve come back with a program called “Dark Mail.”
By the way, did you know that the email state employees (such as faculty like me who work at state-funded universities like GMU) are all technically public records? As long as the email isn’t covered by student privacy acts like FERPA, anyone can request to see my GMU email because it’s a public record. Technically.
Wikipedia page for Ben Silbermann
The 9 most important events in Open Source history
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I want to give better instructions about how to get Zotero working and how to get your items into our Zotero group at http://www.zotero.org/groups/hist390-001-2013/items, since it’s a multi-step process. Do also see the Zotero help documentation.
If you have any trouble, first look around in the help documentation on zotero.org at https://www.zotero.org/support/. If you can’t find what you need, email me.
Online Libraries – 25 Places to Read Free Books Online
Mason Interlibrary Loan Services
10 tips for smarter, more efficient Internet searching – TechRepublic
This article goes over tips that can be helpful when doing research online. I think some of these were discussed in class but some of them are new too.
11 Essential Algorithms That Make The Internet Work
Future of the Internet – Future Internet Scenarios | Internet Society
A neat page by the Internet Society depicting their potential scenarios for the future of the internet with cool little videos.
What Is A Peer-Reviewed Article?
10 Tips for Designing Presentations That Don’t Suck
Using Diigo to Collect, Highlight, Annotate, and Share Web Pages – Part 1
Lego machine removes DRM from Kindle e-books
Crowdsourcing: A Million Heads is Better than One
The dangers of Webcrawled datasets | Bell | First Monday
Potential problems with data collected by a web-crawler that would not, in theory, be present if the data were collected by hand.
Some Thoughts on the Whole “Artists’ Books in the Digital Age” Thing | The Binding Agent
This article proposes that digital technologies actually AID in keeping the book a widely spread and accessible media, rather than hurting its future.
5 Simple PowerPoint Tricks You Should Have Up Your Sleeve
These are pretty basic tips, but the .gif images of the instructions are really incredibly easy to understand.
A Timeline of Cyberwar and Cybercrime
Mega CEO: Forget anonymous e-mail. Think privacy (Q&A)
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