Today on Boing Boing tv, a conversation with
Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of
Global Voices, about videoblogging culture in the North African nation of
Tunisia.
Despite intense restrictions on freedom of speech there, and extreme risks for critics of the political status quo, bloggers there are finding innovative uses for video online, as a method of cultural commentary and activism. Using tools like Tor and SipPhone to ensure anonymity, they have proven themselves to be several steps ahead of their US counterparts -- as evidenced by a story Zuckerman shares about an Apple ad remix.
Sites and organizations referenced in or related to this BBtv episode include:
* advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org
* Reporters Without Borders
* Committee for the Protection of Journalists
* Amnesty International.
Related previous Boing Boing posts:
Tunisia jails, reportedly tortures popular blogger and online journo
Liveblogging WSIS in Tunisia, continued.
Liveblogging WSIS in Tunisia, continued.
Report: Journalists, others at WSIS attacked by authorities
BoB award noms for world "freedom of expression" blogs
Today on
Boing Boing tv, a vlog from
Mark about
Socialbomb, a real-world tech game that explores social circles and ways to measure interpersonal reputation.
The current version is designed to accommodate 30 players. Each player is awarded points for being near players with higher reputations, and penalized for being near players with lower reputations. Bonuses and penalties are applied according to overall social promiscuity and status. The player with the worst reputation score is the 'Socialbomb.' Their score will have the most negative impact on a social circle.
Shot on location at the
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.
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A number of credit card companies now issue credit cards with embedded RFIDs (radio frequency ID tags), with promises of enhanced security and speedy transactions.
But on today's episode of Boing Boing tv, hacker and inventor Pablos Holman shows Xeni how you can use about $8 worth of gear bought on eBay to read personal data from those credit cards -- cardholder name, credit card number, and whatever else your bank embeds in this manner.
Fears over data leaks from RFID-enabled cards aren't new, and some argue they're overblown -- but this demo shows just how cheap and easy the "sniffing" can be.
This episode is part of our ongoing series of interviews with some of the thinkers, hackers, and tinkerers at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference this year.
Today on
Boing Boing tv, Xeni speaks with defense technology journalist
Noah Shachtman about the role technology plays in the Iraq war. This episode is part of our ongoing series of interviews with some of the thinkers, hackers, and tinkerers at the O'Reilly
Emerging Technology conference this year.
Noah is a contributor to Wired, and the editor of Wired's defense tech blog Danger Room. Don't miss his recent Wired magazine feature, "How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social — Not Electronic."
Xeni speaks with
author and
Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson, and "airplane geek"
Jordi Munoz, about the quest to create the ultimate
sub-$100 aerial drone. One design involved the use of a Nintendo Wii controller. UAVs are often associated with military combat or police surveillance, but what "friendlier" uses might we put them to, in civilian hands? Shot at the
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California.
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