What The Web Got Right, And Wrong, In The Marathon Bombings Doug Bernard | Washington DC On March 16th, 2013, five weeks before the Boston marathon bombings, Sunil Tripathi disappeared. A Brown University student on leave from study, Tripathi was last seen in his Providence, Rhode Island apartment at around 11am. About 20 minutes later, […]
Boston, Privacy And The Limits Of Crowd-Sourcing
Posted April 23rd, 2013 at 12:26 pm (UTC-4)
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Your Giga-Future
Posted April 15th, 2013 at 11:53 am (UTC-4)
Do You Really Need A 1-GB Internet? Yes. Doug Bernard | Washington DC Once upon a time, around the time I was starting college, the prefix everyone wanted in computers was “kilo.” Computer programs, processor speeds, memory storage: it all came measured in units of kilo, or thousands. 64 Kilobytes equaled 64,000 bytes of memory […]
The Secret Facebook
Posted April 10th, 2013 at 1:14 pm (UTC-4)
How To Share Secret Messages in Public Facebook Posts Doug Bernard | Washington DC Let’s say you had something you wanted to say; a message for just one or two other people, but secret to everyone else. It’s a fair bet one of the last places you might consider posting that message was anywhere near […]
Being a Journalist, Online and Off
Posted April 1st, 2013 at 3:05 pm (UTC-4)
When Sharing Your Story Interferes With Telling Others’ Kate Woodsome | Washington DC [Ed. note: Kate Woodsome is a VOA multi-media journalist covering U.S. immigration and rights movements from Washington. You can connect with her here on Twitter.] While the U.S. Supreme Court debated whether or not to support same sex marriage, Facebook turned red. […]
