Cloudflare
How Cloudflare Helps Serve Up Hate on the Web – ProPublica – complaints filed against the site go to Cloudflare, and Cloudflare then sends me an email telling me someone said I was doing something bad and that it is my responsibility to figure out if I am doing that. – Is it just me finding anonymous complaints would also be worrying and a bit sinister? This solution by Cloudflare feels like the worst of both worlds
Business
One of Macau’s biggest casinos is expanding into West Africa | Quartz
Culture
50 Years Of Colin Curtis – The UK’s Mancuso? – great piece by Greg Wilson
Ethics
Facebook ads targeting Australian teenagers: Predatory advertising sparks outrage | news.com.au – not that surprising or horrifying to me. Brands tend to look for emotional voids
Social media firms must face heavy fines over extremist content – MPs | Media | The Guardian – expect mass censorship soon
Korea
The Dangerous Mission To Undermine North Korea With Flash Drives | Fast Company – interesting, if optimistic article
Legal
EU could legislate to make it easier to move data between cloud providers – this makes things interesting
Digital Economy Act: Illegal Kodi streams could now land users in prison for 10 years | The Independent – people could now face ten-year prison sentences for illegally streaming copyrighted content. Not exactly proportionate
Marketing
How To Catch Lightning In A Bottle – Wieden+Kennedy – Medium – I think part of the battle here is performance versus brand advertising
Media
Liberty Global Sees European Operating Income Down 18% in Q1 | Variety – yet another reason why Vodafone was right not to do a deal with them
We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #351 – We Are Social UK – interesting ARPU numbers for Facebook
How Deadheads Sped Ahead – WSJ – really interesting read by Andy Kessler that hits on a number of factors. How their show on May 8, 1977 at Cornell University was their best concert. How the Grateful Dead developed a new music model and the sharing economy, when bootlegging is still frowned upon by the rest of the industry. How countercultural Dead heads became the establishment (Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and Steve Bannon). (paywall)
How A Small Group Of Pro-Corbyn Websites Built Enormous Audiences On Facebook – alt left UK media – what’s to stop them having the effect of the US alt right? Interesting read
Digital Advertising Takes a Hit – MIT Technology Review – a good read
Analyst Predicts Dish, T-Mobile & Amazon Super Union | DSLReports, ISP Information – not sure why?
Forrester Sees Advertiser Revolt as Beginning of the End | Digital – AdAge – interesting analysis, even if I don’t entirely agree with the outcomes
Security
Jam The Russians: Army Electronic Warfare Kit Comes To Europe « Breaking Defense
Software
Microsoft Is Surprisingly Comfy With Its New Place In A Mobile, Apple, And Android World | Fast Company – interesting move
★ Apple’s China Problem: WeChat | Daring Fireball – ‘no easy fix’
IBM Accidentally Shipped Malware to its Business Customers – ExtremeTech – face palm
Major apps abandoning Apple Watch, including Google Maps, Amazon & eBay [u] – adds weight to the problem of use cases for wearables. More related content here.
Technology
Mac Pro: Failure and Future – Monday Note – interesting breakdown of Microsoft Surface numbers
Web of no web
NTT Docomo Develops Flying Spherical Display Using Drone – Nikkei Technology Online – proper Blade Runner type feel to this technology – love it
Oculus Story Studio: Facebook Is Closing Its VR Storytelling Unit | Variety – its hard but not in the technical way that Facebook is used to dealing with