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Mars is not far
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2013
How far is Mars from Earth? A common response would be, billions and billions of miles away. The site being reviewed gives the answer in a rather fun way: a pixel-by-pixel journey from Earth to Mars which takes place in your browser.
Unlike sexist posts
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2013
After weeks of protests and online campaigning against violence and hate speech, Facebook has bowed down and agreed to review its flawed content policies.
Arctic’s whistle-blower
Issue Date: May 31, 2013
ENVIRONMENTAL group Greenpeace has launched a website seeking to attract whistle-blowers from within oil companies to reveal risks with drilling in the Arctic. Greenpeace wants governments to ban oil and gas firms from the fragile Arctic environment. It urged employees of oil firms and sub-contractors to submit information to the website if they knew about risks that were in the public interest.
Forbidden country
Issue Date: May 31, 2013
It is one of the great ironies of China. May 1, marked worldwide by labour and socialist movements, should be a cause of celebration in the communist China. But it was not so on China’s popular website, Baidu. Ranked fifth most popular website in the world, above even Wikipedia, Baidu contains Google-like search features, discussion boards and a Wikipedia-style encyclopedia. One of its many functions is to allow users to start discussions around popular topics.
Knowledge commons
Issue Date: May 31, 2013
A photograph of one of the first hot air balloon flights; an 1833 map of the US showing an eagle “sitting atop the nation” and several accounts of the lives of the Native Americans during the 19th century. All these can now be accessed at the click of a mouse. Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), a non-profit initiative to create a large-scale public digital library, opened its virtual doors in April.
Biblophile On Web
Issue Date: May 15, 2013
IT'S a sign of times. A virtual medium that tells us about the printed world. Not something new. For years now, established publishing houses have put up information like book catalogues and forthcoming releases on their websites.
Mocking an autocrat
Issue Date: May 15, 2013
Computer hackers infiltrated North Korea’s official news website and its Twitter and Flickr feeds, posting unflattering images of leader Kim Jong-un. Hackers targeted the China-based website Uriminzokkiri, which distributes news and propaganda from North Korea’s state media.
Online Timeline
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2013
Google bullies a lexicon
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2013
The word, ogooglebar, is used regularly in the Swedish language. It means “something that cannot be found on the Web using a search engine”, and was under consideration by the Language Council of Sweden for addition to the latest edition of the country’s official dictionary.
Vignettes from our natural world
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2013
THE world’s “environmental emergency” is providing inspiration for a growing movement of artists whose work focusing on habitats and social issues aims to raise awareness. This site is one of them. Actually, it is much more than artwork, though the site’s moniker and the striking images on its home page could lead a reader to overlook its text content. That would be a pity, for the images preface rich textual information.
