Rusbridger examines the common comparison made between the digital publishing revolution and the Gutenberg press publishing revolution in terms of rewriting the landscape for the dissemination of information, analysis and opinion, and concludes that the digital publishing revolution is a far more profound change to our intellectual landscape because…
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Femmostroppo Reader November 17, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
Signal boost: Oh good, look what Apple’s endorsed
Call them, and please reblog. Make some noise.
Firefox Bookmarklet to help with Down Under Feminists Carnival submissions
I’ve developed a Firefox bookmarklet that pre-fills most of the submission fields for the Down Under Feminists Carnival. Submit today!
Twitter’s ch-ch-ch-ch-changing
Wired.com takes a peek at the new look/new features that will be rolled out across the network over the next day or so. If you can see the changes on your homepage already, what do you think?
This seems like a good general opportunity for readers to let other readers know that they tweet and where they can find each other. So drop a link to your tweetstream, or go forth and follow!
Sexting and Slut-Shaming
Announcing the release of this particular video, he commented “The launch of this new video comes on White Balloon Day – a time to break the silence on child sexual assault and raise awareness that child safety is everyone’s responsibility.”
Everyone’s responsibility. Everyone’s. Shall we take a quick peek at the video in question?
APODtastic – Space Shuttle Tribute Poster: Endeavour
The poster shows the link between Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour and the shuttle that commemorates its voyages. This is only one in a series of new posters showing the Shuttles and the missions they have flown.
Minor blogfart
The problem appears to now be resolved: so should I stick with this look for the blog or revert to the previous theme?
WTF, YouTube? Documentaries about rape victims are not Unsafe Content
I don’t expect to be confronted with suggested videos with rape fetish titles in the sidebar when I go to look at a trailer for a documentary about rape victims. How the hell can your system not have been tweaked to prevent shit like this happening?
Cutting through the 24/7 news cycle / soundbite culture
to recast election campaign news coverage away from the horse-race and inside-baseball paradigms that currently masquerade as informing the public
Hoyden About Town 