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Exclamation: yourname@yahoo.com Can Be Yours!

By Jay Rossiter, SVP, Platforms

Over the last few months, we’ve made exciting changes to some of your favorite Yahoo! products, like Flickr, Mail, Weather, the Homepage and Search. Today, I’m excited to share with you our next big push: we want to give our loyal users and new folks the…

潑墨書房出版品: 黃哲斌《新聞記者的煩惱──新媒體時代的尷尬現場》

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2010年，在《中國時報》服務超過16年的資深記者黃哲斌，以「台灣報紙業配新聞領先國際潮流，自認觀念落伍告老還鄉」為理由自請辭職、並寫下收錄在本書中的〈乘著噴射機，我離開《中國時報》〉一文作為對於過去記者生涯的註腳。

「作為一名熱愛紙本媒體，自小閱讀國語日報長大，又花了二十年在雜誌社與報社工作的初老男人，這照片充滿隱喻，我們都目睹印刷時代的衰老、崩解、掙扎、力不從心。網際網路看似指向未來，但當下，它帶來的問題，跟它提供的答案一樣多。」黃哲斌如是說。

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Exclamation: Setting the Record Straight

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By Ron Bell, General Counsel, Yahoo!

We want to set the record straight about stories that Yahoo! has joined a program called PRISM through which we purportedly volunteer information about our users to the U.S. government and give federal agencies access to our user databases. These claims…

人生って不思議なものですね。

台灣使用者擋下政府封鎖網路的提案

htchien:

Taiwan’s intellectual property office proposed a new Internet blacklist law that would have targeted websites for their alleged use in copyright infringement. The initiative would have forced Internet Service Providers to block a list of domains or IP addresses connected to websites and services found to enable “illegal” file sharing.

這是在美國矢言保護大眾數位科技方面自由與權利的電子前鋒基金會今天在他們官網的報導，但這還只是初步結果而已，未來還有很多事情要面對！

blockedonweibo:

自由花 (“The Flower of Freedom” / “Zìyóuhuā”) is a Cantonese song written by Hong Kong lyricist Thomas Chow to commemorate the victims of June 4, 1989. He set the lyrics to the popular Taiwanese song “Sailor” by Zheng Zhihua.

Why it is blocked: It is sung every year by those who attend the June 4 vigil at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (see page 50). From the chorus:

But there is a dream, it will not die, remember it!
No matter how hard the rain falls, freedom still will bloom.
There is a dream, it will not die, remember this!

It may also be sensitive because it is a homophone for liberalization (自由化 / zìyóuhuà), an economic and social policy contested within the Communist Party (read Yuezhi Zhao’s “Challenging Neoliberalism?” in Communication in China for more about the New Western Hills Meeting controversy).

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Turkish Protests Documented through Instagram
On May 31, three days after demonstrators set up camp in Istanbul’s Gezi Park to protest the development of a new shopping mall, police dispersed the crowd with water cannons and tear gas, setting off the most significant wave of protests in Turkey’s recent history.
Tapping into deeper cultural divisions and discontent, demonstrations have spread throughout Turkey, where protestors and bystanders alike have been documenting the skirmishes through Instagram.
View more photos from Istanbul by visiting locations pages for Gezi Park, İstiklal Caddesi and Kazancı Yokuşu. See photos from Ankara by visiting the Tunalı Hilmi Caddesi and Kuğulu Park location pages.

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Turkish Protests Documented through Instagram

On May 31, three days after demonstrators set up camp in Istanbul’s Gezi Park to protest the development of a new shopping mall, police dispersed the crowd with water cannons and tear gas, setting off the most significant wave of protests in Turkey’s recent history.

Tapping into deeper cultural divisions and discontent, demonstrations have spread throughout Turkey, where protestors and bystanders alike have been documenting the skirmishes through Instagram.

View more photos from Istanbul by visiting locations pages for Gezi Park, İstiklal Caddesi and Kazancı Yokuşu. See photos from Ankara by visiting the Tunalı Hilmi Caddesi and Kuğulu Park location pages.