Cyberculture agenda: Parents are comin’ Pew research shows parents mostly on Facebook and Pinterest…

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Reddit’s new ‘no copyrighted material’ rule could technically kill /r/pics and others

The Next Web by Mic Wright

Most of the fevered talk about Reddit’s new content rules has focused on its half-hearted burying of offensive material.

Fair Use App: a guide to fair use for online video creators

 Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Art from New Media Rights writes, “We spend our time working with online video creators on fair use, so we created The Fair Use App. We filtered down our experiences working with video creators to create an app that can help them better understand:”

 

Computers Can Recognize Your Face, and Soon They’ll Know What You’re Doing

 Social Media Today by Aaron Miles

Pew Report Shows Parents Most Active on Facebook, Pinterest

 Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson

In the latest Pew Research report, analysts have looked at how parents use social media channels, providing a wide range of insights into what platforms they use, how they use them and who they’re connecting with. The report provides some great data on how social channels are being utilized by parents, insights that can help marketers better understand and focus their advertising efforts to this demographic set.

Confessions of a whistleblower: Inside the mind of an infamous corporate burglar

Mashable! by WHiH World News Staff

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Google finally ends its long, ugly losing streak

 Mashable! by Seth Fiegerman

Google’s losing streak is over

 

What went wrong at Reddit?

 Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza

Sarah Jeong reports on

 

Ellen Pao: the trolls are winning

 The Next Web by Lauren Hockenson

Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao wrote in an op-ed for the  ‘Washington Post’ that free speech has given way to letting users silence others with hateful speech. The trolls are winning Reddit: This isn’t an easy problem to solve.

How you can contribute to whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s legal defense fund

 Boing Boing by Trevor Timm

We’re proud to announce a major new crowd-funding campaign in support of whistleblower Chelsea Manning to help pay for her important legal appeal.Chelsea is currently in the process challenging of her unjust Espionage Act conviction and draconian 35-year jail sentence at the Army Court of Appeals.

How Pornhub’s designers keep you coming…back

 The Next Web by Mic Wright

This is the point where you can stop pretending you’ve never heard of Pornhub. It’s the Facebook of the adult world, ubiquitous and all-conquering. Its brands deliver epic Web traffic, claiming 60 million unique users a day. Note: From here on, all links in this post should be considered NSFW.  Emilia Clarke warns: Here be porny dragons…

FBI busts hacker nest dedicated to Android and Facebook exploits

 Mashable! by Adario Strange

The FBI has announced the shutdown of what it calls “a major computer hacker forum” that went by the name of Darkode

Report: Gamers More Active on Twitter, Reddit Than Average User

 All Facebook by Brandy Shaul

Ellen Pao was nasty subreddits’ last defender, insider claims

 Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza

Reddit’s army of seething adolescents found a target for their anger in the form of Ellen Pao, the site’s caretaker CEO and the presumed feminist fascist monsterwho presided over the censorship of r/fatpeoplehate and other bastions of free speech.

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