[Review] God’s Jury: The Inquisition, IT & Privacy
If you were hunting for a book most ReadWriteWeb readers would, based on the title, find irrelevant to their pursuits, you could do worse than "God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World" by Cullen Murphy. But, as Murphy adeptly sho...
[Video] Thinking Cities
Ericsson's Networked Society Program has produced a second documentary, which is available for viewing by ReadWriteWeb readers a day before it is released publicly. The documentary series and program are attempts by the Swedish telecom company to inves...
Punk in Africa: 3 Chords, 3 Countries, 1 Revolution… and a Facebook Page
When Keith Jones and Deon Maas first started trying to pull together the footage, sources and sound for their documentary, Punk in Africa, they found it slow going. It was only when they started leveraging a dedicated Facebook page and other social med...
[Video] Suzanne Vega’s "Tom’s Diner": From MP3 to Wax Cylinder
The closer the present approaches an imagined future, the more it inspires a look backward. As computers became Star Trek pads, people got more interested, for instance, in Babbage's analytical engine or the Antikythera mechanism.
So it's no surprise...
Nokia Publishes Policy on Conflict Minerals
"Conflict minerals," those mined to support groups conducting armed conflict or engaging in human rights abuses, have been an issue since long before we first wrote about it in July of 2010. The mineral equivalent of blood diamonds, they include tantal...
[Audio Download] Lomax Folk Recordings Go Digital
Anyone with an abiding interest in American music will have heard of Alan Lomax. His travels around the U.S. and through other countries recording "folk music" was almost single-handedly responsible for how we think about Americana and world music both...
Ethiopia Sentences U.S. Blogger to Life in Prison
The Federal High Court in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa sentenced expatriate journalist and blogger Elias Kifle to life in prison yesterday. Kifle is the editor of the Washington D.C.-based blog, Ethiopian Review. He was sentenced in absentia an...
ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, January 21, 2012
We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want to get your event included in the calendar? Let us know in the comments below or email us.
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Al-Shabaab Tweets Terror
Since the Kenyan army has gone into Somalia in October (during my trip to Kenya), the main Islamist group Al-Shabaab has used Twitter in its propaganda war against the Kenyan government.
It's latest tweets, posted yesterday on @hsmpress, include photo...
ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, January 14, 2012
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Google Accused of Fraud Against African Competitor [Updated: Google Statement]
Mocality, a Kenya-based crowd-sourced web and mobile business listings company, has accused Google of fraudulently stealing its customers. In a blog post today, Mocality's CEO Stefan Magdalinski maintained that Google has targeted its database, the cor...
Berlin Theatre Stages 1st Live Facebook Production
On Monday, Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin staged the first production of a play live on Facebook. The play was a stage adaptation of the novel "Effi Briest" by Theodor Fontaine.
According to Reuters, the online production, Effi Briest 2.0, "used statu...
