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[Cell phones failures in times of crisis] In the wake of Japan’s tragic earthquake and tsunami, communication was essential. How many people died with fully-charged, sophisticated pocket-radios in their hands, trying desperately to send a text message that said “Help! I am buried at _____”? How many more will perish, when calamity strikes, time... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
[Funding journalism] What if independent journalists were funded directly by their readers and viewers? Rachel Anderson, a 26-year-old journalist from North Dakota, is using Kickstarter to find out. Anderson is asking the site to help fund her stay in Libya, where she is releasing weekly videos on the lives and struggles of Libyan rebels,... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
[No second chances on the internet] And just as it is hard for a movie to recover from a bad opening weekend, today’s “apps” are likely to lose their place in the marketplace if they don’t make a good first impression. For nearly a decade, the start-up mantra has been release early and release often,” a concept that first was applied successfully... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
[Social networks and elections] One in five adults who use the Internet, including a growing number of older, conservative Republicans, turned to social networks to get or share information about the midterm elections last year, according to a Pew Research Center study released on Thursday. The study also found that 53 percent of Internet users... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
[How the Pentagon will plans to use your social networks] The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media using fake online personas designed to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with the US Central Command (Centcom) to... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
[Paying (a lot) to read the NYT] Beginning March 28, visitors to NYTimes.com will be able to read 20 articles a month without paying, a limit that company executives said was intended to draw in subscription revenue from the most loyal readers while not driving away the casual visitors who make up the vast majority of the site’s traffic. Once... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
[“Piracy”: a pricing problem with a solution] A major new report from a consortium of academic researchers concludes that media piracy can’t be stopped through “three strikes” Internet disconnections, Web censorship, more police powers, higher statutory damages, or tougher criminal penalties. That’s because the piracy of movies, music, video... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
[Covering Japan: the internet difference] As a media observer, what struck me this time was how rich and multifaceted the information flow was. In 1995, I worked in the AP bureau in Tokyo, trying to understand what I could from Japanese broadcast news reports. We were sometimes able to reach someone, official or not, in the Kobe region via phone... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
Nearly 80% of children between the ages of 0 and 5 who use the Internet in the United States, do so on at least a weekly basis, according to a report released Monday from education non-profit organizations Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop. The report, which was assembled using data from seven recent studies, indicates that young... - http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
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