Category Archives: Social Media

PEI Battle Ground for New Media and Journalist with a Disability

A raging human rights battle is being waged on PEI in an ongoing battle for legitimacy between old and new media, as well as accessibility issues for the press

Wayne Thibodeau, Guardian no room in the inn for journalists in wheelchairs (Facebook photo)

By Chris Benjamin, OyeTimes – A raging human rights battle on PEI that highlights an ongoing battle for legitimacy between old and new media, as well as accessibility issues for the press, has garnered surprisingly little media attention.

It began in the fall of 2009, when the explosion of news blogging was a mere gathering of volatile gasses. After unanimously voting controversial news blogger Stephen Pate their secretary/treasurer, members of the Island’s press gallery booted him from their ranks. They claimed the issue was spurious content; Pate says it was his association with a disability advocate group—a violation of human rights law. Continue reading →

Metro Apps are brain dead

Windows 8 app developers will have to work harder to convert people to dumb down for Metro

Wikipedia Windows 8 Metro

Four months since the Consumer Preview of Windows 8, most of the Metro apps available on the Windows 8 Store are nothing more than page turning.

If you want to browse the pages of a magazine, Metro apps are for you. Otherwise, Metro apps are the antithesis of the Web 2.0 experience. With the world poised to be in the Semantic Web of Web.3.0 Microsoft is not delivering on the promise.
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Journalist stuck in the back row filming Mumford and Sons at White House

They say print journalism is a dying business but has it come to fan videos on the front page?

All the hot entertainment acts get to play The White House. It’s the equivalent of a Royal Command Performance.

Telegraph.co.uk video of Mumford and Sons at The White House

So when British Prime Minister Cameron showed up for a tent show on March 14th, President Obama invited the hottest British act – Mumford and Sons.
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One day internet blackout works but it’s not over yet

Massive blackout of internet sites on Jan 18 influences lawmakers

The media stories have Hollywood corporate fat cats reeling from Wednesday’s shutdown or blackout of more than 12,000 websites like Wikipedia, Reddit and Wired. NJN Network did its small part by wearing black all day.
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TechDirt posts 40,000th blog denounces SOPA

Mike Masnick tireless advocate for internet freedom fighting against censorship

Mike Masnick founder of TechDirt

TechDirt is one of a kind – editor Mike Masnick works tirelessly writing stories every day to promote freedom of speech and freedom on the internet.

Mike has written articles denouncing censorship, state control around the world including the US Congress attempt through SOPA to shut down the internet as we know it. Continue reading →

How does Apple get credit for glitchy and frustrating iPad

Dismal Wi-Fi reception and no login memory continue to frustrate

Apple iPad still frustrating a year later

Sexy marketing that sells status and ease of use must be the key to fooling consumers with the iPad.

After a year of use, the iPad still can’t remember login names and passwords.

The Wi-Fi reception is so bad that browsing the web is a painful experience. 3G browsing is even worse.

While it looked like Apple could force everyone off Flash for videos and music players, that hasn’t happened.

At first, the iPad was so popular people took it to use all the time. Now it sits on the kitchen table as a Twitter browsing appliance.

A couple of friends who have iPads share the same buyer’s remorse and frustration.

My iPad has become a Twitter surfing device and little else. It seems to handle the short messages on Twitter but fails when you want to click through to a link.

Loading a page on Wi-Fi can take almost a minute with good reception. The reason? Apple cheapened out and put in a low-prioed Wi-Fi chip.

My work-around in Twitter is to start loading the page, then go back to browsing messages while the page loads. Continue reading →