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Great photo above from the protests in central Athens. And then there is this collection of photos alleging the same dog has been in many protests. Probably different dogs, but it’s a great photo-set nonetheless: “The dog that hasn’t missed a single riot for years” via allcreatures: Demonstrators throw stones to the police in central […]

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The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data. The population sizes are statistics from Google, the Facebook Data Team, and wild guesses

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I earn my living from Facebook and am usually one of the platform’s biggest advocates. As part of NewsCloud’s Knight Foundation grant, I regularly evangelize Facebook applications to media companies and publishers. But Facebook’s increasingly hostile policies toward end user privacy keeps making my job more difficult than it should be. From a Facebook application

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The “Fake Mayor” iPhone app: Have you always wanted to be mayor somewhere in your favorite check-in app like foursquare? Well now you can without all that inconvenient checking in. Nice. [via @eric_andersen:]

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My photo submission for NY Times’ Lens project: A Moment in Time taken at 15:03 U.T.C. May 2, 2010. It’s unclear to me if it will be used because I uploaded it after 3pm EDT, after the B-Day party! Sounds like they had problems with their submission form a little. Milo grins as he inspects his Curious George birthday

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