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As part of the 20th anniversary celebration of the Stephen Sondheim Society, we will be paying tribute to Mr Sondheim and his genius, with a collection of material which affectionately celebrates and reflects our love for the great man himself in a brand new show GOD, premièring at London Theatre Workshop for only 6 performances this July. With tongue very firmly in cheek, there will be gentle parodies that serve to demonstrate his art, together with songs that remind us why we all love Sondheim PLUS brand new compositions inspired by Sondheim and written by some of the most exciting UK New Musical Theatre composers.
First your parents appropriated Facebook, rendering it completely uncool. Now mainstream media has expropriated Twitter.
If teens having fun pretending to be terrorists makes it harder to avoid the monstrous dysfunction of the human bureaucracies for behemoths like American Airlines, the CIA, or Interpol, then it may be time to stop blaming the 14 year-olds and start looking at the adults who built these frail totems to incompetence in the first place.
After a start that enthralled the world (and was powered by social media), the Arab Spring revolution brought Islamists to power in Egypt during democratic protests.
Turkey is the latest country to block Twitter and YouTube, but it's not the only one.
Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter share expertise to launch WebScaleSQL, a super-DBMS built on Oracle's MySQL Community Edition.
Turkey isn’t trying to be North Korea, China or Iran; it’s trying to be Azerbaijan (@rmack thoughts on @zeynep's recent piece on Turkey's Twitter block? Is Turkey practicing networked authoritarianism?
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Other online platforms also face challenges policing what are largely self-serve systems for advertisers to build their own ads. Google in 2011 acknowledged it had helped Canadian pharmacies run ads that targeted the U.S., which the Justice Department said led to unlawful importation of prescription drugs into the U.S. Google agreed to forfeit $500 million, a sum representing its revenue from the ads plus revenue received by the Canadian pharmacies from their sales to U.S. consumers. "It's obvious with hindsight that we shouldn't have allowed these ads on Google in the first place," Google said at the time.
Medium, Twitter co-founder Ev Williams's online publishing venture, has no shortage of ambition – to reinvent the blog as a digital storytelling format and match the impact of the microblogging service, no less.
Social media services can ultimately be run as public utilities, ad-free, at cost, in a democratic spirit and for social ends, in their enormous variety—or else digital society can become ever more subservient to the single end of the accumulation of private capital. The choice is between social life as an advertising platform and socialized social media. Tweeps and Facebook friends, unite! You have nothing to lose but some ads! (Except all the time you’re wasting. But you were already doing that.)
"The protests have marked the rise of a new generation... Technology mattered, but this was not a technological revolution. Social networks did not cause these movements, but they kept them alive and connected. Technology allowed us to watch, and it spread the virus of protest, but this was not a wired revolution; it was a human one, of hearts and minds, the oldest technology of all."
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Is this the start of the Networked Society? Let us go back some years in Core Network history and we will find a very old network solution. It was called the switchboard operator.
In order for companies to grow or survive, the strategy of merger and acquisition (M&A) tends to be quite a popular option. It’s either to merge with or to purchase another company, in hope that the synergycreated will be more positive, or often described as “a sum larger than two”. That’s certainly what’s preferred by some of the leading or major players in the software and networking service, namely Apple,Facebook, Google and Twitter.
Among them: ''Did you have a specific number of people's lives you needed to ruin before you considered your business model a success?
"If Twitter, YouTube and Facebook will be honest, if they'll stop being so immoral, stop attacking families, we'll support them.” So says Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. If one were trying to do comedy about the vilification of the Internets and their corrupting influence, it would be hard to come up with something much better (or more suitable for re-tweeting). Mashable has published acraziest quotes list, but the list is in dire need of updating. Since Turkey’s courts impelled him to lift his ban on Twitter (YouTube and tens of thousands of other sites remain blocked), Erdogan has come up with even better lines.
Turkey is the latest country to block Twitter and YouTube, but it's not the only one.
It sounds like a bad money manager joke, but that’s actually the best way to describe the Kinetics Internet Fund. “Truthfully, if we changed the name, we’d probably get more money,” says cofounder and portfolio manager Peter Doyle, jacket slung over a chair in a conference room at his midtown Manhattan office.
* Article: Echo Chamber or Public Sphere? Predicting Political Orientation and Measuring Political Homophily in Twitter Using Big Data. By Elanor Colleoni1, Alessandro Rozza and Adam Arvidsson. Journal of Communication, Vol. 64 Issue 1, March 2014.
How Turkey’s active networked society has created a ‘dictator’s dilemma’ that has seen Erdogan utilise both traditional and modern methods of control, drawing from ‘first, second and third generation’ strategies of communication censorship.
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) has taken its time, listened to feedback, and is now fully prepared to launch video advertisements to compete with peers Twitter (NYSE: TWTR ) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) . With the stock hovering around $70, and being a top industry performer, will it benefit the most from this service?
The idea that the Twitter stream is a window into the future is persuasive. But is it true?
Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis.
John Naughton: The social networking service has the power to control the expression of public opinion in political debate (RT @sufisal: While dinosaurs sleep through a Revolution, the world is transforming rapidly.
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