Tag Archives: internet

Typically dead-on.

Via Policy Mic: In his new book, Murdoch’s World: The Last of the Old Media Empires, NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik has revealed that Fox News’ public relations department spent years aggressively patrolling the comments sections of blog posts about the network, and responding to criticism (and even neutral statements) from fake accounts. According to Folkenflik, Fox staffers each maintained …

NOTE: I’ve replaced the live stream with the below recap of today’s speech.

“Send Air Force One out to Silicon Valley, load it up with smart people, bring them back to Washington and fix this problem. It’s ridiculous. And everybody knows that.” – Sen John McCain, speaking about the ongoing problems with the Obamacare website. Today President Obama will hold a press conference to speak about the site and the plans for a …

“The larger question is that if free or cheap streaming becomes the way we consume all (recorded) music and indeed a huge percentage of other creative content – TV, movies, games, art, porn – then perhaps we might stop for a moment and consider the effect these services and this technology will have, before ‘selling off’ all our cultural assets …

Enjoy. (Tipped by JMG reader Win)

Back in May, Dodson announced that he was “no longer into homosexuality” and had become a Black Israelite. Now he’s tweeting that his “Queen” is six weeks pregnant, adding on Facebook: “The Most High God is working in all angles of my life, giving me everything I ask for and much more and blessing me exceedingly. Through his grace my …

The office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has fined 19 companies for posting fake reviews of themselves on sites like Yelp and Yahoo. The fines range as high as $75,000 and behind these fake reviews is quite an industry. Investigators working for Mr. Schneiderman began by posing as the owner of a Brooklyn yogurt shop that was the …

A hook-up website for Christian swingers launched last month and the outrage is in full, uh, swing on right wing sites. From Charisma: You can find adulterous, immoral hookups on ChristianSwingers.com for free, but if you want to actually hook up, you’ll have to pay this digital pimp a fee—and that’s not where the depravity ends. The site also arranges …

eMarketer : A Community Marketing Inc. (CMI) survey conducted in June 2013 found that a substantial proportion of gay males and lesbians in the US had engaged in a variety of media activities over the seven days prior to the survey. The most common activity among the men and women polled was visiting LGBT sites and blogs, at 67% of …

Turkish LGBT rights group Kaos GL reports on its website: Dating app Grindr, used by gay, bisexual and curious men, has been censored in Turkey. The app cannot be accessed since yesterday evening. İstanbul Anatolia 14th Criminal Court of Peace blocked off Grindr as a “protection measure.” Kaos GL Association’s Lawyer Hayriye Kara said it is very likely that the …

Britain’s Ministry Of Sound label has sued the music streaming service Spotify, claiming that user playlists that mirror the track listings on their compilations constitute a copyright violation. Chief executive Lohan Presencer claims that his company has been asking Spotify to remove the playlists – some of which include “Ministry of Sound” in their titles – since 2012.  “It’s been …

How much of your time on the internet is via mobile devices?

Gizmodo tells us: It’s everyone’s favorite time of year—the birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing, and PornHub has just released a big, ol’ sticky mess of data about the country’s porn habits. And the conclusion? The MILF is alive and well, Nevada is weirdly into adult film star Anita Queen, and anyone invested in the porn industry needn’t worry—America …

Slate today announced the launch of Outward, a new section of the site that “won’t be just another one-note, mainstream ‘gay news’ blog.” Um, ouch? Being made of the same ornery stuff as the rest of Slate, Outward will be a haven for passionate expressions of underrepresented and controversial points of view that we hope will make you think, make …

(Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

Wired explains a new website: Even if you’re not Edward Snowden, there are times when excising your social media presence is necessary. Companies usually don’t make it easy, though, often hiding the delete button inside myriad confusing menus and settings. Save some time and bookmark justdelete.me, a new page that collects direct links for killing various accounts dead and puts …

But thanks anyway to the hundred JMG readers who sent it to me. (Seriously – don’t stop sending me your tips.)

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has launched a project to bring internet access to the estimated five billion people who currently don’t have it. “Everything Facebook has done has been about giving all people around the world the power to connect,” Zuckerberg said in a statement. “There are huge barriers in developing countries to connecting and joining the knowledge economy. Internet.org …