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  • UC Davis: Official 'spin' crumbles in the face of "too many videos"

    UC Davis' pepper-spray videos have gone viral around the web, proving citizen journalism can allow us to form our own views of raw footage collected in the thick of it.

    Blog posts | November 20, 2011 4:25pm PST

  • Anonymous protests shut down BART in SF (photos)

    Protestors demonstrating Monday against the transit system's decision to switch off cell phones wreak havoc in San Francisco during the evening's commute.

  • Saudi king did not offer $150 billion for Facebook

    Saudi Arabia‘s King Abdullah did not offer $150 billion to buy Facebook, despite how quickly the "news" spread across the Internet.

    Blog posts | February 28, 2011 11:52am PST

  • Facebook launches Requests 2.0 for developers

    Facebook has launched Requests 2.0: the bookmark counters that alert users of outstanding requests has been simplified, and there are two types of requests: user-generated and app-generated.

    Blog posts | February 18, 2011 1:59pm PST

  • Egyptian president ignores social media protesters: A bloody coup is brewing

    Breaking news: Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak says he will step down in the September elections, though his reluctancy to renounce power immediately shows the social media wishes of his people...

    Blog posts | February 10, 2011 1:08pm PST

  • Flash analysis: Egypt melting down; govt fights back closing Internet

    This is a short update on a huge event. Egypt has exploded into something resembling civil war. Here are some key elements of the crisis you need to be aware of.

    Blog posts | January 28, 2011 1:26am PST

  • London on lockdown: How social media spurred student protests

    Social media has been a major conduit to organising student protests in opposition to the UK government's plan to raise university tuition fees. One student leader explained how.

    Blog posts | December 9, 2010 1:09pm PST

  • House due for its health reform vote tomorrow

    Once whatever passes passes (or doesn't) employers know the environment into which they're putting a major portion of their budgets, and can firm decisions on whether to hire, or how much, next year.

    Blog posts | November 6, 2009 5:54am PST

  • July 1: Day for offline protest against Green Dam

    While PC makers are saying nothing about the impending July 1 deadline to install Green Dam Youth Escort on machines sold in China, as The Wall Street Journal non-reports in a non-story, Beijing...

    Blog posts | June 24, 2009 8:26am PDT

  • Clinton defends State-Twitter connection, even as she pleads ignorance

    In his wonderful book The Invention of Air, about the English scientist Charles Priestley, Steven Johnson talks about how Mike Huckabee was asked a question about global warming (as I recall) and...

    Blog posts | June 17, 2009 5:00pm PDT

  • It's OK to be mad at Apple but give Schiller some respect

    Lesa Snider King is mad at Apple. There. It's been said. Publicly. And maybe, through the power of the blogosphere, Steve Jobs and company over in Cupertino, will hear her. After all, King is...

    Blog posts | December 19, 2008 1:37pm PST

  • Feds lift ban on IBM

    From the AP: The government has lifted a week-old ban that prevented I.B.M. from getting new federal contracts in exchange for an agreement from the company to drop its protest of an $84 million...

    Blog posts | April 6, 2008 8:51pm PDT

  • This revolution will be text-messaged

    Filipinos have been masters of using text messages to rally political protesters. So what happened during last month's failed coup d'etat?Photos: Philippines as texting central

    News items | December 17, 2007 4:00am PST

  • Your flight has been delayed...

    perhaps because protestors at Heathrow are out to stop the airport's planned expansion. British police say they're ready to deal with nationwide protests against what is seen as weak British...

    Blog posts | August 18, 2007 5:23pm PDT

  • Chinese protesters defy media control with text power

    Get ready for the new grassroots organizing tool ... the cellphone. In China, where traditional media is tightly controlled, activists are using text messaging to quickly generate protests against...

    Blog posts | July 2, 2007 5:34pm PDT

  • Images: Storming the virtual gates

    Residents in Second Life stage a protest against CopyBot, a controversial software tool that could significantly affect the virtual world's economy.

  • Photos: Immigrant rights rally

    Thousands of immigrant rights supporters in San Francisco join their counterparts nationwide in a one-day protest.

  • Photos: Immigrant rights rally

    Thousands of immigrant rights supporters in San Francisco join their counterparts nationwide in a one-day protest.

  • Blogs, text, vlogs make an explosion at deaf university

    Online deaf world reacts quickly and loudly to appointment of university's new provost.

    Blog posts | June 12, 2006 5:46pm PDT

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