January 2012
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White House Action Summit: Machine-Readable...
Yesterday I attended the White House Hispanic Community Action Summit to discuss engagement and social media. Executive Director for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence Jose Rico and Associate Director of the Office of Public Engagement Julie Rodriquez set the stage by outlining their goal of increasing the number of Latino students in schools by 4.5 million in the next 10 years....
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Freedom of Speech: Anonymity and Privacy 3/3
After highlighting what you can do to protect the momentum of a message against site bans and service outages, now I want to talk about how you can protect yourself online.
Just a year after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg insinuated that privacy was irrelevant, several Mexican bloggers posting anonymous tips on Narco drug activity were found decapitated after their identities were revealed....
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Freedom of Speech: Service Outages 2/3
In my last post I talked about how organizers often see their efforts countered by site bans. Now I want to discuss service outages.
During Egypt’s election and subsequent protests, the government banned access to Twitter, Facebook and few select blogs. Still, messages spread as platforms, sites and forums rose up to carry the load. The reason why was because the movement was branded...
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Freedom of Speech in the CES World PART 1/3
I am amazed at the difference a decade at CES can make. More than a third of the world’s population currently has access to the internet and we’ve seen both the good and bad of this - and I’m not just talking about bandwidth issues. 2011 began with the Arab Spring and ended with Occupy Everything.
Through connected tablets, ultrabooks, laptops and phones people took to the web...