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SOPA Strike: 12 Hour Internet Blackout on Jan. 18th To Call Attention to US Bill That Threatens Open Internet

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In response, many web sites are going on strike. Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. Source: eef-etc.com via Beth on Pinterest. How the Strike Works.

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Infographic: How Do Social Network Users Lean Politically?

Care2

As political campaigns and nonprofits gear up for the election cycle, I thought I would share this infographic that attempts to map the politics of social media properties like Facebook and websites like Wikipedia. Users on Yelp, Reddit, Instagram, Tumblr, Zappos, and Spotify lean left but are not the most politcally engaged.

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Startup failure: How to prevent online vandalism from killing your startup

The Next Web

The propensity for certain men to vandalize dating site experiences is well understood. A user’s karma on Hacker News or Reddit is a function of the community’s assessment of her ability to produce consistently and with high quality. Producers: Dating sites often block users who behave undesirably.

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12NTC: Nonprofits and the Future of Internet Rights

Tech Soup

You might recall a day earlier this year when you were greeted with an odd blackout message instead of the Wikipedia entry for poutine. Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ).

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Terraformation gets $30M to fight climate change with rapid reforesting

TechCrunch

contains some 2.27BN acres of total land area, per Wikipedia ). Its elevator pitch is also punchy: “Our mission is explicitly to solve climate change through mass reforestation,” says founder Yishan Wong — whose name may be familiar as the ex-Reddit CEO (and also a former early-stage engineer at PayPal/Facebook).

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How Apple is making the antitrust case against it stronger

The Verge

Trending sideways : Google banned far-right websites ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad platform over racist comments posted on the sites. Researchers discovered a Russian misinformation campaign that used forged documents and a network of burner accounts to spread rumors across Facebook and Reddit. Adi Robertson / The Verge ).

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New research shows how many important links on the web get lost to time

The Verge

There would be countless Reddit threads and tweet replies that would no longer make sense to future readers. Wikipedia, for example, asks that contributors writing citations provide a link to a page’s archive on sites like the Wayback Machine if they think an article is likely to change. There’s also the Perma.cc