Thursday, September 03, 2015

Breaking RSS Connections

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 I play with different web browsers. Despite the threat of vulnerabilities, they give me alternative views and results. Using Google Chrome to read Netvibes, I get

https://www.netvibes.com/opit#


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Media Channel


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But in Maxthon, even without opening up an RSS reader, this is what I see with the URL loaded in the Address Bar..
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http://www.mediachannel.org/feed/

  • Danny “The News Dissector” Schechter (1942 – 2015)

    Stew, 2015-03-19 21:15:44 PM

    There’s no easy way to say it. Our friend Danny died earlier today. He was, and is, loved.  
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  • White House Office To Delete Its FOIA Regulations

    Stew, 2015-03-17 02:19:35 AM

    By Gregory Korte via USA Today The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act, making official a policy under Presidents Bush and Obama to reject requests for records to that office. The White House said the cleanup of FOIA regulations is consistent with […]
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  • Edits to Wikipedia Pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo Traced to 1 Police Plaza

    Stew, 2015-03-17 02:13:19 AM

    By Kelly Weill via Capital NY Computers operating on the New York Police Department’s computer network at its 1 Police Plaza headquarters have been used to alter Wikipedia pages containing details of alleged police brutality, a review by Capital has revealed. “The matter is under internal review,” an NYPD spokeswoman, Det. Cheryl Crispin, wrote in […]
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  • Public’s Access to Government Records Faces Roadblocks Aplenty

    Stew, 2015-03-17 02:06:14 AM

    By Gary Pruitt via McClatchy It’s getting harder and more expensive to use public records to hold government officials accountable. Authorities are undermining the laws that are supposed to guarantee citizens’ right to information, turning the right to know into just plain “no.” Associated Press journalists filed hundreds of requests for government files last year, […]
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  • 4chan’s Overlord Christopher Poole Reveals Why He Walked Away

    Stew, 2015-03-17 01:59:08 AM

    By David Kushner via Rolling Stone At 11 a.m. on January 21st, Christopher Poole posted a note online saying he was retiring as the administrator of 4chan, the notorious website he had founded as a high school student in upstate New York 11 years earlier. The news was as shocking as some of the site’s […]
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  • Republicans Aim to Reverse Landmark Net Neutrality Ruling

    Stew, 2015-03-08 22:08:29 PM

    Via RT The historic net neutrality ruling handed down by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week has quickly garnered opposition in the form of a few dozen Republican lawmakers who are vying to reverse the FCC’s decision in Congress. Thirty-one members of the GOP have already signed their names to be co-sponsors of proposal […]
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  • Okla. Agency Linked Quakes to Oil in 2010, but Kept Mum Amid Industry Pressure

    Stew, 2015-03-08 19:30:07 PM

    By Mike Soraghan via EnergyWire Oklahoma’s state scientists have suspected for years that oil and gas operations in the state were causing a swarm of earthquakes, but in public they rejected such a connection. When the Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS) did cautiously agree with other scientists about such a link, emails obtained by EnergyWire show […]
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  • China Blocks Web Access to ‘Under the Dome’ Documentary on Pollution

    Stew, 2015-03-08 19:20:10 PM

    By Edward Wong via NYT “Under the Dome,” a searing documentary about China’s catastrophic air pollution, had hundreds of millions of views on Chinese websites within days of its release one week ago. The country’s new environment minister compared it to “Silent Spring,” the landmark 1962 book that energized the environmental movement in the United […]
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  • Media Hacking

    Stew, 2015-03-08 19:12:23 PM

    By John Borthwick via Medium 2014 certainly ended up as the year of the media hack. The Sony incident and the ham handed response by the company and theatrical distributors, pushed the hacking of a media company and its ransoming into the mainstream. The entire incident was surreal, partially because it was both an example […]
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  • China’s National Conversation on Pollution Has Finally Begun

    Stew, 2015-03-04 23:28:19 PM

    By Yiqin Fu via Foreign Policy China is talking about its pollution crisis — all because of one moving film by a famous television journalist, and a little help from China’s state media apparatus. It started on Feb. 28, when Chai Jing, one of China’s best-known journalists and a best-selling author, unveiled a self-financed documentary, Under […]
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