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• "As is the rule today, social media played a part in bringing the events in Odessa to light. At least two web videos live streamed the initial clashes between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian activists and then showed fighting at the trade union building. Twitter provided photos, updates, and commentary. Facebook was inundated with postings." - Mary Delph

Tags: @ukraine, #socialmedia

by: Mary Delph

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• good description of what bitcoin does - Jessica Zimmerman

Tags: bitcoin

by: Jessica Zimmerman

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• interesting article from 2011 when bitcoin was more volatile and contradictory - Jessica Zimmerman

Tags: bitcoin

by: Jessica Zimmerman

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• article that goes into the subjective factors that affect bitcoin's value fluctuations - Jessica Zimmerman

Tags: bitcoin

by: Jessica Zimmerman

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• growth of bitcoin's popularity and value - Jessica Zimmerman

Tags: bitcoin

by: Jessica Zimmerman

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• The cryptocurrency ecosystem isn't just Bitcoin.
  
  The foundational concepts of a "block chain" are reimagined in new ways: "The Ripple Protocol consensus algorithm (RPCA) uses a node election system to establish the veracity of new transactions, adding them to a continuous chain of closed transactions that are considered absolute."
  
  The Ripple Protocol consensus algorithm (RPCA) white paper is discussed here. - Daniel Chen

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Ripple Unveils Next-Generation System for Digital Transaction Consensus

The Ripple Protocol consensus algorithm (RPCA) uses a node election system to establish the veracity of new transactions, adding them to a continuous chain of closed transactions that are considered absolute.

“Satoshi [Nakamoto], with bitcoin, came up with the first solution to the double spending problem that didn’t require central authority. And that scheme worked, and it allowed bitcoin to be so phenomenally successful. But, it was the first such scheme, and it’s probably not going to be best such scheme and there’s going to be innovation in that area.”

Tags: @Bitcoin, #Ripple, #DavidSchwartz, #RPCA

by: Daniel Chen

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• Website that displays the current status of dark net markets - Sara Neel

Tags: @bitcoin

by: Sara Neel

Tags: @e-estonia, #e-estonia

by: Katie Banach

Tags: @e-estonia, #e-estonia

by: Katie Banach

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• This is a pretty accessible version of Bitcoin's technical foundations/functions that is extremely helpful for people w/o a technical background. - Daniel Chen

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Here's an Explanation Even a Five-Year-Old Will Understand

Tags: @Bitcoin, #easyexplanation

by: Daniel Chen

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• ""We will continue our resistance in the face of any injustice and unfairness taking place in our country," the Taksim Solidarity group, seen as most representative of the protesters, said in a statement on Saturday." - George Lupton

Tags: @aljazeera, #protest, #reclaim

by: George Lupton

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• Year after Gezi Park protests - George Lupton

Tags: @gezipark, #theguardian, #protest

by: George Lupton

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Estonian citizens and businesses operate with confidence, knowing that their data is safe and their transactions are secure.  Indeed, the best kind of cyber security is one that everyday people never have to think about.

Tags: @e-estonia

by: Hannah Grace Martin

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• ISIS Hit List - military targets in the US - Hallie Martin

Tags: @ISIS

by: Hallie Martin

Tags: @Anonymous, #Leaders, #FBI

by: Barry Willner

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• Dark net users utilize community forums (like Reddit) in an attempt to attempt to self-regulate the markets. They warn other users of potential scams or any vulnerabilities in identity protection. - Sara Neel

Tags: @bitcoin

by: Sara Neel

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• Facebook interactions with government - Hannah Grace Martin

Tags: @e-estonia, #facebook

by: Hannah Grace Martin

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• When markets "go down" aka disappear, the dark net is quickly replenished with new markets to take their place (particularly after the downfall of Silkroad). However, buyers must use community to try to determine the safety/legitimacy of the new sites. - Sara Neel

Tags: @bitcoin

by: Sara Neel

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• Users openly complain/warn other users about potential scams at the vendor and market level. - Sara Neel

Tags: @bitcoin

by: Sara Neel

Tags: @ISIS

by: Hallie Martin

Tags: @WikiLeaks

by: Carolyn Schmitt

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• his twitter account. in turkish. 6 million followers but like 70 million citizens - Erin Demane

Tags: @turkey

by: Erin Demane

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• Since June 5th, the Guardian had been publishing top-secret digital files provided by Edward Snowden, a former contract employee of the National Security Agency. - Carolyn Schmitt

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Starting in July of 2009, Davies had filed a series of front-page stories exposing scandalous and criminal activity in and around the Murdoch empire: hush money to hacking victims; payoffs to police officials; and evidence that top editors had condoned the hacking.

In 2010, he reminded Rusbridger of a small story in the Guardian about the arrest of Bradley Manning for leaking thousands of government documents to WikiLeaks.

An editor of a London paper praised the Guardian for publishing the documents but said that it stayed “a little too close to Assange.”

In January of 2013, Snowden, who was working as a computer specialist for Booz Allen Hamilton, an N.S.A. contractor, made contact with the filmmaker Laura Poitras, who was working on a documentary about surveillance.

Tags: @WikiLeaks, #WikiLeaks

by: Carolyn Schmitt

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• A recent example of Human flesh search. Through Weibo, people in China found this guy who kept uploading pictures of him with orange tree to a apple account which showed up in the iphone of this guy living in the United States. - Yanjing Liu

Tags: @China, #humanflesh, #orangebro

by: Yanjing Liu

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• They're doing it in Estonia!
  
  Could this be a counter-point to Blockchain Based Voting Systems (BBVS) that Server Based Voting Systems (SBVS) could work?
  - Daniel Chen

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Internet Voting in Estonia

Tags: @Estonia, @Bitcoin, #BBVS, #SVBS, #internetvoting

by: Daniel Chen

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• From the eyes of a Dynamics Networks Analyst, this video shows (in data), the impact of Twitter on the Revolution - Bharat Rao

Tags: @egypt, @arabspring, social media, youtube

by: Bharat Rao

Tags: @turkey

by: Erin Demane

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Understanding The Origin Of The Arab Spring…

Tags: @ArabSpring, @egypt

by: Joseph Coppola

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• Re-diagramming ISIS, Class Studio Session - Hallie Martin

Tags: #ISIS

by: Hallie Martin

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• Earlier accounts of government response to Chinese bloggers - Brian Spann

Tags: @china

by: Brian Spann

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IRL finds it impossible to participate in election debates of the 3.4-million euro tax-payer funded Saavsaar's propaganda channel. Tallinn TV is unethical and belongs in the ash heap of history

Savisaar has fiddled with city funds for years, using hundreds of thousands euros of public money for Center Party election ads.

Tags: @e-estonia, #government, #propaganda

by: Katie Banach

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• My vision, in progress, of the work done in studio today. - Barry Willner

Tags: @Anonymous

by: Barry Willner

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• Very relevant article. - Bilal Ali

Tags: no_tag

by: Bharat Rao

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• Media portrayal of Ukrainian crisis - Rebecca Hairfield

Tags: @ukraine

by: Rebecca Hairfield

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Estonia has, in last 23 years, taken a great pride in its achievements and become one of the most digitally savvy and forward-looking countries on earth. Estonian World has for over two years written about many great Estonian success stories. But there are issues that have constantly been brushed under the carpet in the Estonian society. One of them is the gender pay gap and the general underrepresentation of women in key positions and in the parliament.

• Estonia's focus on e-services pushes aside other societal issues that need to be addressed. - Katie Banach

gender pay gap in Estonia was a whopping 29.9%

European Union – the analysis shows that women earned on average 16,4% less than men in 2013. Yet Estonia’s figure is almost double the average, and largest in the EU.

many other countries, which were formerly on the east side of the Iron Curtain, are doing much better when it comes to gender pay gap

gender pay gap has actually worsened: between 2008 and 2013, it increased by 2.3 percentage points

despite good educational attainment, women in Estonia have relatively little political empowerment

gender gap does not only reflect in wages and top positions; there is a visible lack of female representation in the Estonian media as well

Tags: @e-estonia, #gender, #social-structure, #community

by: Katie Banach

Tags: @ISIS

by: Hallie Martin

Tags: @ISIS

by: Hallie Martin

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• Discussion of unemployment in Estonia. - Katie Banach

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Estonia’s economy, despite the impressive number of start-ups, despite the awesomeness of Skype, and despite the chatter of the VC crowd, just doesn’t appear to be very good at creating jobs.

The sudden plunge in Estonia’s population was driven by a large increase in emigration. That is to say, despite online business registration and fancy tech start-ups, increasing numbers of Estonians have decided that their futures are best pursued elsewhere. This is a fact that is curiously absent from The Economist’s narrative: why would people be abandoning such a fresh, dynamic, and innovative place? Well I don’t want to speak for Estonians, but I would hazard a guess that it has something to do with the fact that tech start-ups (by definition) employ tiny numbers of people and are a very poor foundation for a country’s overall labor market.

Tags: @e-estonia

by: Katie Banach

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• Ukrainians are documenting the conflict with Russia online. NPR's Scott Simon talks with the Wall Street Journal's Paul Sonne about how once-lighthearted websites have become grim logs of destruction. - Natalie Kloo

Tags: #ukraine, #socialmedia, #conflict

by: Natalie Kloo

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• A quick insight on social media's impact on the Ukrainian crisis - Austin Doebler

Tags: @ukraine

by: Austin Doebler

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• The impact of social media on people's interests and world views - Austin Doebler

Tags: @ukraine, #worldview

by: Austin Doebler

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• Actual numbers and figures showing social media involvement in Ukrainian crisis - Austin Doebler

Tags: @ukraine, #twitter

by: Austin Doebler

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• According to the US government: - Daniel Chen

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In Estonia, the use of bitcoins is not regulated or otherwise controlled by the government

Tags: @Bitcoin, @Estonia

by: Daniel Chen

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Blockchain Voting Used By Danish Political Party

Tags: @Bitcoin, #blockchain, #onlinevoting, #Danish

by: Daniel Chen

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Voting on the Blockchain - Version 1.0

Tags: @Bitcoin, #onlinevoting, #blockchain

by: Daniel Chen

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by: Ashley Dustin

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• aiweiwei's twitter which is censored in China - Yanjing Liu

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by: Yanjing Liu

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• the tax case that got aiweiwei detained - Yanjing Liu

Tags: @China, #aiweiwei

by: Yanjing Liu

Tags: @China, #aiweiwei

by: Yanjing Liu