Team members whose primary job responsibility may not be content creation participate, and it is a true democracy in that the best idea wins. Search algorithm changes that deemphasized thin content in the SERPs pushed marketers to focus on quality...
However, privacy experts at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) aren’t convinced; they’re already fired off a letter asking the FTC to investigate.
There is no way anyone expected this,” Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a privacy advocacy group, also told the Washington Post. The big change: Google clearly states that it will combine information from...
Talk about the world’s largest democracy. According to comScore Media Metrix, nearly 1.2 billion people age 15 and older watched 201.4 billion videos online globally during October 2011. And Google Sites, driven by YouTube.com, ranked as the world...
And here in our Western democracy, freedom of the press is a principle we have upheld despite numerous attempts at censorship, for centuries. FTC's antitrust probe into Google, the search marketing organization SEMPO issues a statement to the FTC...
Maybe Sarkozy feels the internet is spamming democracy with freedom? Unless you are talking about Eric Schmidt's clash with president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy. The latter showed contempt for the laissez-faire attitude of tech entrepreneurs.
It's dangerous to try to shut down speech, because you don't get that kind of robust public debate about what should or should not be acceptable in a democratic society," said Cynthia Wong, director of the Global Internet Freedom Project, Center...
The one with the most views -- 1,000 as of Saturday -- is "TV AD: Democracy & The Internet. If you're disgusted with negative politics and the state of Canadian democracy, it's time to change the channel!
But Canada is a federal state that is governed as a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. I've started to gather examples of contagious viral videos being shared on Facebook, Twitter...
The Web is also vital to democracy, a communications channel that makes possible a continuous worldwide conversation. It is where democracy starts. Like democracy itself, it needs defending. Apple won't support Flash.
Despite the stiff opposition of public interest groups, such as the Center for Democracy and Technology and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), COICA passed with a 19-0 vote and is now awaiting the vote of the full Senate.
The invitation-only event was hosted by the Personal Democracy Forum (PdF) on the evening of May 13 and held in London at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
The poll which was conducted via Facebook's Democracy UK hub shows a surge of support in the Liberal Democrats in the past month. We have seen a huge surge in engagement on Facebook with thousands of political groups and pages being set up, with...
In fact, 141,329 people like Democracy UK on Facebook and ukelection's Channel on YouTube has 643,847 total upload views. And I predicted that UK Election 2010 "will be fought on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and blogs.
According to Richard Allan, Facebook's director of policy, "The dawn of the digital election this year is a transformative moment for democracy in Britain. Later today, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg will participate in the YouTube...
So, comments are the price a candidate pays for running for office -- or standing for election -- in a democracy. One of the lessons that campaign taught us was the importance of letting YouTubers add comments to your videos.
Applying this methodology, the retweet essentially transmogrifies into a vote casting system in an unequal democracy (the best kind). Providing high quality content to users with a short turnaround time (from 10 minutes to four hours) is...
If you require portals to be down for "maintenance" on the anniversary of pro-democracy protests in your country - that's censorship. As we learned in the last post, China says that the United States' accusations of Internet censorship are baseless.
Consumer Watchdog and the Center For Digital Democracy contacted the FTC to halt Google from buying AdMob on anti-trust and privacy grounds, according to Tech Crunch. Tech Crunch includes a letter written to the FTC co-signed by representatives...
Without Twitter, the people of Iran would not have felt empowered and confident to stand up for freedom and democracy. Christian Science Monitor opinion columnist Mark Pfeifle gives an interesting pitch for Twitter getting the Nobel Peace Prize for...
