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Monthly Archives: December 2013
Facebook self-censorship: What happens to the posts you don’t publish?
Facebook wants to know why you didn’t publish that status update you started writing. Continue reading
Kids Christmas Caroling at St. John of the Cross Parish, Ta’ Xbiex, Malta
Kids Christmas Caroling at St. John of the Cross Parish, Ta’ Xbiex, Malta: see video on web URL below: Christmas Caroling St. John of the Cross Ta’ Xbiex Dec 2013 from Ivan M. Consiglio on Vimeo. accompanied by their catechism … Continue reading
A reminder to those poor souls live on air IN FRONT of the damn studio camera
This is a reminder to those poor souls IN FRONT of the damn camera, when live and on air: wait for the PRODUCER or the FLOOR MANAGER to signal you are flippin’ clear !!! Sospesa la giornalista di Rainews24 Laura … Continue reading
Is charging for digital news a good thing?
Once unheard of, it soon will be the practice of more than 40% of U.S. dailies Charging for digital news — erecting paywalls — is not a panacea for the many problems newspapers face as they struggle to adapt in … Continue reading
EBRD fraudulently helping Latvia to enter the Euro currency, see video – “Lettonia”
The EBRD is helping Latvia to enter the Euro currency by fraud, take a look at this video “Lettonia”, by Italian journalist Mauro Caterina. During the global financial crisis, which erupted in 2008, Latvia was on the verge of bankruptcy. … Continue reading
Posted in GENERAL OBSERVATIONS & THOUGHTS, Uncategorized
Tagged currency fraud, EBRD, Euro, Latvia, Lettonia, video
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Facebook Self-Censorship: Posts You Write But Don’t Publish Tracked | TIME.com
The social network monitors what you say — and what you don’t say.
Read more: Facebook Self-Censorship: Posts You Write But Don’t Publish Tracked | TIME.com http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/16/facebook-is-keeping-track-of-every-post-you-write-and-dont-publish/#ixzz2nfnmJczW Continue reading
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Malta in the media’s cross hairs on its sale of citizenship
The sale of Maltese citizenship has stirred lots of international media interest, most of it taking a bad and dim view of the whole scheme. It may have been a bit hasty, but it remains amazing how some larger states … Continue reading
Internet: Bots Responsible for More than 60% of All Web Traffic | TIME.com
Online traffic from bots in 2013 — automated softwarethat include everything from hacking tools to spammers to search engine catalogers — is up 21 percent from 2012, when 51 percent of website visits already came from bots. Thirty-one percent of bots are malicious, according to a recent study, but spam bots decreased from two percent of traffic last year to half-a-percent in 2013. Continue reading
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Tagged bots, incapsula, web bots
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Obama’s Orwellian Image Control
THE Internet has been abuzz over the spectacle of President Obama and the prime ministers of Britain and Denmark snapping a photo of themselves — a “selfie,” to use the mot du jour — with a smartphone at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela in South Africa on Tuesday. Continue reading
Facebook Admits Organic Reach Is Falling Short, Urges Marketers to Buy Ads
Facebook is being more blunt about the fact that marketers are going to have to pay for reach. By Cotton Delo (cdelo@adage.com) originally published on Thu, 05 Dec 2013 07:00:00 -0500 If they haven’t already, many marketers will soon see … Continue reading
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