A young member of the Tory Online Rage Machine (TORM) composes a mean Tweet using talking points from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office. TORM operatives may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: The unfortunate Dean Del Mastro. It’s hard not to feel a pang of sympathy for Dean Del Mastro,
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Five of Five: Amanda Marcotte: Reddit and Creepshots
Marcotte:
If women have to be in your porn whether they like it or not, you can hardly complain if your real identity is outed
To which a commenter replies:
Candid pictures do not make pornography. Sitting on the bus is hardly like being on a …
Continue readingFive of Five: Amanda Marcotte: Reddit and Creepshots
Marcotte: If women have to be in your porn whether they like it or not, you can hardly complain if your real identity is outed To which a commenter replies: Candid pictures do not make pornography. Sitting on the bus is hardly like being on a porno set. Sure it
Continue readingCanadian ProgressiveCanadian Progressive: The Best Reporting on Facebook and Your Privacy
by Theodoric Meyer | ProPublica Facebook hit the one-billion user mark last week, a little more than two years after it reached 500 million users. To mark the occasion, we’ve rounded up some of the best reads on Facebook and privacy. Facebook Raises Fears With Ad Tracking, The Financial Times, September 2012 Facebook has
Continue readingFive of Five: Rebecca Watson on Harassment
Rebecca Watson speaking at the Humanists of Florida 2012 Conference.
The talk discusses sexism, harassment and threats directed towards many visible women in the atheist and skeptic communities. Youtube comment threads are one of the last warm re…
Continue readingFive of Five: Rebecca Watson on Harassment
Rebecca Watson speaking at the Humanists of Florida 2012 Conference. The talk discusses sexism, harassment and threats directed towards many visible women in the atheist and skeptic communities. Youtube comment threads are one of the last warm refuges for complete asshats.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Social Media and Margaret Wente
About two years ago, I wrote a blog post explaining why we cancelled our subscription to The Globe and Mail. At the same time, I sent an email with a link to the post to Globe editor-in-chief John Stackhouse, suggesting that if he wanted to know why he had lost
Continue readingFive of Five: Calgary Diabetic Pressuring Ab Govt on Promises
A local man suffering from diabetes is hoping a facebook page will start a movement to hold the government accountable.Brent Whitford has dealt with the Type 1 diabetes since he was three years old, and remembers clearly when premier Alison Redford pr…
Continue readingFive of Five: Calgary Diabetic Pressuring Ab Govt on Promises
A local man suffering from diabetes is hoping a facebook page will start a movement to hold the government accountable.Brent Whitford has dealt with the Type 1 diabetes since he was three years old, and remembers clearly when premier Alison Redford promised to include insulin pumps as part of Alberta
Continue readingeaves.ca: Requiring Facebook for Your News Site (or website) – the Missed Opportunity
Last week I published I blog post titled Why Banning Anonymous Comments is Bad for Postmedia and Bad for Society in reaction to the fact that PostMedia’s newspapers( including the Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, National Post, etc…) now requires readers to login with a Facebook account to make comments. The
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Progressive Insurance Lawsuit Scandal Case Study
Tweets from Flo, Progressive Insurance’s Spokesperson Today in PRL 604: Advanced Public Relations Writing for Digital Platforms at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications I’m presenting a case study on the recent Progressive Insurance Lawsuit Scandal, which, somewhat surprisingly, has been better chronicled by KnowYourMeme.com succinctly than any other source I looked
Continue readingeaves.ca: Is the Internet bringing us together or is it tearing us apart?
The other day the Vancouver Sun – via Simon Fraser University’s Public Square program – asked me to pen a piece answering the questions: Is the Internet bringing us together or is it tearing us apart? Yesterday, they published the piece. My short answer? Trying to unravel whether the Internet
Continue readingTrashy's World: Most super awesome…
Google doodle today! But maybe I’m just being a nerd. (7) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Faking Syrian War Images To Manipulate The Western Public
The demonization of genocidal dictators like Syrian President Bashar Hafez al-Assad is standard practice in the western media’s coverage of developing-world crises. In the photo-shopped imaged below, The Krone (Die Kronen Zeitung), Austria’s biggest newspaper, shows how to manipulate the Syrian uprising for a gullible western public. In its July 28
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Paul Donofrio: NDP Candidate. Rob Ford Supporter. Social Media Cautionary Tale.
Yesterday, I wrote about how the PC candidate in Kitchener-Waterloo, Tracey Weiler, has been running away from the PC leader Tim Hudak. In the riding of Vaughan, the ONDP and their leader Andrea Horwath, the opposite has been the case. Paul Donofrio, the ONDP candidate, has been completely ignored by
Continue readingTrashy's World: If you want to see…
… how utterly pathetic CPC trolls can be, and you’re on Twitter, check out the Tweets spewed out by @RobertRoss4. Wow. The dude clearly hasn’t a life. Probably paid by the CPC to sit at his computer all day and think of anti-progressive vitriol. They, um, should re-evaluate the quality
Continue readingTrashy's World: Lots of Twitter bitterness…
… these days. And on both sides of the political spectrum. Decorum, it seems, has taken a vacation. The worst Tweets I have seen have lately been attacking and mocking the late Jack Layton: RT @JohnnyJesus: Do you think #dearjack called the girls Olivia when he was getting Shiatsu’ed ?
Continue readingeaves.ca: How Government should interact with Developers, Data Geeks and Analysts
Below is a screen shot from the Opendatabc google group from about two months ago. I meant to blog about this earlier but life has been in the way. For me, this is a prefect example of how many people in the data/developer/policy world probably would like to interact with
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Ask General Kang: Do you have a profile on Facebook?
Absolutely! You can’t take over a planet without a few friends. I like the way that Facebook allows me to be connected the minutia of my friends’ lives. This is why I’m so fond of the “status update,” which allows … Continue reading →
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Canadians: Farewell, Bev Oda!
Disgraced ex-Durham MP, Bev Oda, begins her private life today, after a scandalous public life defined by profligacy, scandal, inefficiency and controversy. Canadians offer their final word on the former minister of International Co-operation and MP for Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party of Canada. [View the story “Canadians: Farewell, Bev Oda!”
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