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News Archive
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JMSC iPhone App Out Now!
Posted on September 16, 2011 | No CommentsThe iPhone RSS app that I put together for the Journalism and Media Studies Center at HKU (my alma mater) is finally available in the iTunes Store. The app pulls... -
Voice of the Vulnerable Challenge Winner
Posted on August 10, 2011 | No CommentsThis was the winning entry to the the Voice of the Vulnerable Challenge, a project organized by UN Global Pulse in partnership with Visualizing.org that was looking foor unique... -
New Home!!!
Posted on August 9, 2011 | No CommentsFinally got around to moving off of wordpress.com & onto a proper hosted server where I can run whatever scripts I need to. The ICANN post runs in-site now, just... -
ICANN & the Naming of the Internet
Posted on June 30, 2011 | No CommentsICANN’s recent decision to open up the rules governing Internet domain names garnered it quite a bit of media attention in the last week or so. Since there has... -
WSJ Launches ‘SafeHouse’
Posted on May 7, 2011 | No CommentsThe Wall Street Journal yesterday announced the launch of ‘SafeHouse‘ their proprietary, in-house document submission portal, modelled after Wikileaks, it would appear. WSJ offers the following explanation of Safehouse: Documents... -
Gitmo Files
Posted on April 27, 2011 | No CommentsWikileaks, the whistleblower site that the US gov’t loves to hate, has just released the first in it’s latest batch of classified US documents – the Gitmo Files. Wikileaks released... -
iOS4 Location Tracking
Posted on April 21, 2011 | No CommentsBritish researchers announced that Apple’s iPhone has been secretly storing information that tracks the location history of the phone. The file is unencrypted and contains extensive GPS and wireless location... -
NY Times: Haiti Interactive
Posted on January 13, 2011 | No CommentsNY Times has a fantastic interactive feature on Haiti for the 1-year anniversary of the earthquake that wrecked Port-au-Prince and its surroundings this time last year. The NYT team stitched together... -
NY Times: Vast Hacking by a China Fearful of the Web
Posted on December 29, 2010 | No Comments” As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing one reason top Chinese... -
“Great Firewall” Architect Driven Offline
Posted on December 23, 2010 | No CommentsIf anyone had any doubt about how Chinese Internet users feel about their web censorship… Thursday, December 23, 2010 The architect of the vast internet censorship system known as the...