dotRising
It has been 25 years since the invention of the world wide web and more than 2 billion people are now connected. The Guardian are asking how this information revolution has affected us personally, socially and morally with an interactive digital experience! Jon Ronson, Bill Bailey, Billy Bragg, Josie Long and others reveal their sinful online behaviour. Find out what pride, lust, greed, gluttony, envy, wrath and sloth mean in the digital world - and cast judgment on the guilty. Will you absolve or condemn them?
InPublishing
Published by Apptitude Media under contract to the Association of Photographers, the new-look Image is created by the team behind the British Journal of Photography. Aimed at image-makers in advertising, editorial and design, Image is about both art and commerce, and celebrates visual elan and creative business solutions.
The Guardian
Google is planning to flag up search results it has censored following a controversial ruling that allows European citizens the right to demand information on them be erased. The search engine is considering placing an alert at the bottom of each page where it has removed links in the wake of the landmark "right to be forgotten" ruling last month.
Red Rocket Media
Supermarket giant Tesco has been revealed as the second least engaging supermarket on social media, revealed just after the firm's sales growth dropped 3.8 per cent year on year. With an engagement rate of 0.98 per cent, according to social intelligence platform BirdSong, Tesco's Facebook engagement leaves a lot to be desired, especially in comparison with rivals Aldi and Asda.
Computer Business Review
When news that a sample of Mercedes-Benz's adverts was more widely viewed by bots than humans breaks in the same week that an audit company reveals four in five British advertisers have no idea how many of their advert impressions are fraudulent, you know an industry is in some sort of trouble.
Computer Business Review
Cydia, the jailbroken alternative to Apple's app store, is a treasure trove of neat tweaks and apps for iOS 7. With messengers, ad blockers and a bunch of fixes for the iPhones inadequacies, you will find plenty to entertain and aid you with these apps. Here's five of the best.
Journalism.co.uk
BuzzFeed has become a by-word for shareable content, but the outlet's viral output is by no means limited to lists. After reaching 2 million subscribers to its main YouTube channel in little over a year, BuzzFeed is also a major player in shareable video content. Some recent examples include 'video lists' such as 8 facts about food that will totally creep you out, videos that appeal to innate human curiosity, such asThe world's most dangerous things to humans, and humour, as in How to piss off every New Yorker in 36 seconds.
Digital Spy
The BBC is to experiment with 4K broadcasting technology during the 2014 World Cup. Although not open to viewing by the public, Sony's Ultra HD footage will be used as a means to see exactly how difficult 4K broadcasting would be. The BBC's R&D labs will be in charge of the process, working alongside Arqiva to send live streams via satellite to the UK. The Research and Development wing of the BBC has previously been involved in testing 8K Ultra HD recordings of the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony.
Press Gazette
A year after the first Edward Snowden revelations The Guardian has adopted an open-source platform which enables sources to submit documents securely. SecureDrop was developed by the US Freedom of the Press Foundation.They can't guarantee it is 100 per cent secure, but they promise significantly better security than other digital methods. The Guardian says it keeps no record of who has visited its SecureDrop server which is housed outside the UK.
The Guardian
Piano Media, the Slovakian-based provider of paywalls to maximise revenue from digital content, has signed up its first UK client: the Aberdeen Press & Journal. The paper, owned by the DC Thomson group, is to use Piano's metered model, which allows 10 free views a month before users are requested to subscribe to various packages. DC Thomson's digital chief, Kirsten Morrison, said: "After looking at the various paid content solution providers, we decided that Piano's 'Lite' solution was the best fit for us.