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Cambridge Analytica vs Beacon – Facebook Australia Quantium

Laurel Papworth

In 2007 Facebook got into trouble for Beacon – I wrote about it at the time – a service that reported on your behaviours online and offline for “personalisation” purposes. These activities would be published to users’ News Feed. ” Wikipedia Beacon Facebook. ” Wikipedia Beacon Facebook.

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

Michael Geist (Photo credit: Wikipedia). It heard about many contentious issues from industry representatives but when the report was published, the public interest was entirely absent. From then the movement grew: The Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook Group was launched in 2007 and soon had 90,000 members.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2007: Facebook. Wikipedia is where I learned about from Tanja Sadow, the dean of a local jewelery school. It was likely in 2007 and I never really used it. For writers and artists is it better to have an individual account or let the publisher/gallery/sales site handle it? This is his story. 2005: Flickr. 2010: Twitter.

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Ray's Personal Learning Environment

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Formally published pages. 2007-02-05. Search alerts. del.icio.us. waybackmachine. Intranet (through employer). Wiki pages. Inside firewall blogs. Mailing lists. Internal (through employer). Meriam-Webster. ray_ple.vym. vym 1.8.1.

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Spamming Mechanisms

Twist Image

I'm with the Wikipedia definition of spam: "to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately," but I would now willingly remove the words "bulk messages" and change it to just "messages. In February 2009, I published a Blog post titled, Attention PR People: Here's How To Pitch A Writer. wikipedia.

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Cognitive Flexibilty Theory, Hypertext, and the Post-Gutenberg Mind: Rand Spiro's Home Page

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For now, you can see the most recent one, in which I take on Wikipedia as classically NON-Post-Gutenbergian -- I think youll find it provocative. Each new column will appear on this site the month before it is published in Educational Technology. The "Wikipedia as Old-Gutenberg Trojan Horse" column. June 21, 2008 | Permalink. |.

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Grow Your Wiki

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Publishing 2.0. Web Content 2007. The first post is published, so have a read and let me know your thoughts! I’ll blog here to let you know when each new guest post is published. Northern Voice. office 2.0. online communities. Presentation. project management. RecentChangesCamp. recognition. right brain. rococo2007.

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