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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
A man has been arrested for making a Mandela joke: Welcome to Police State Britain!
ABOVE: Ex miner, (left) Tom Christopher and Neil Phillips, from Rugeley, who have been question by police for posting jokes on Facebook This is absolutely ridiculous!!!! Read on…. A joke which compared Nelson Mandela’s long time in passing to a … Continue reading
The “Miniatur Wunderland” model railway attraction in Hamburg, Germany
MINIATUR WUNDERLAND HAMBURG
The largest model railway in the world, and one of the most successful permanent exhibitions in Northern Germany Continue reading
NORDIC-DRIVEN E.U. IGNORES SOUTHERN SMALLER STATES PLIGHTS
The Nordic-driven EU leadership persists in ignoring the plights of its southern member states in the Mediterranean on issues related to migration flows from North Africa and Asia. Cannot avoid commenting on this, and it might be hard not … Continue reading
Posted in GENERAL OBSERVATIONS & THOUGHTS
Tagged E.U., EU, illegal migration, irregular migration, migration
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An Artist Counted Every Atomic Explosion On Earth And Shows Them All In A Matter Of Seconds
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto decided to visualize all the nuclear detonations in the history of time, and has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with … Continue reading
5 Minutes Of What The Media Actually Does To Women
“I don’t look like that, and I don’t desire to look like that.” — Kate Winslet ( originally Published on Aug 24, 2012) In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more … Continue reading
Where Freedom of the Press Is Muffled
In a world leading country, which portrays itself as a beacon of democracy and freedom, where entrepreneurship and capitalism share the same bed, the common mortal would expect a free press and excercise of journalism.
‘Identity Crisis’ in Photojournalism – AJR.org
In news organizations around the country, reporters are increasingly providing visuals with their copy. Freelance writers are rebranding themselves as multimedia journalists, and journalism schools, conscious of where the jobs likely will be for their graduates, are training all their students to write and capture audio, photos and video.
This advent of the new Super Journalist, the photographer who writes and the writer who takes photographs, is creating one of the biggest upheavals in modern journalism since online platforms gave everyone, including monthly magazines, a 24-hour news cycle.
In this new world, a world in which everyone is a photographer, what then happens to the photojournalists? Continue reading
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