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Tor On the Mac: Not as Hard as It Looks – TheAppleBlog

Anonymous web browsing using Tor for Mac users.

Firefox tweaks for faster browsing

Browser tip for faster Firefox browsing….

Icerocket skates in where Google fears to tread

Icerocket launches some incredibly useful features for tracking rapidly changing web content.

Twitter for Journalists – Webcast

The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism recently organised the webcast: Twitter for Journalists, or everything you wanted to know about Twitter but were afraid to ask.
The event set out to answer questions such as:

How can journalists use it in their day-to-day work?
What are best practices for journalists?
Whose work is, in Twitter terms, worth “following”?

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Phil Bradley's weblog: Yasni people search

The people search tool ‘pipl.com’ has had a lot of coverage and praise over the past year. Another tool that pulls information about people from a range of social networking sources and databases is Yasni. Thanks to Phil Bradley for his useful review. More on Yasni to follow.

Browsers compete on privacy controls

There are very good reasons why journalists need to worry about their privacy more than most and I outlined those reasons in this article for journalism.co.uk a few months ago. So, it’s good to see that browsers are increasingly competing on the way they allow users to protect their online privacy. The Center for Democracy [...]

Government gives more detail on communications surveillance plan | OUT-LAW.COM

Confused by the recent headlines about Orwellian government surveillance of our online lives? Don’t be.

German court says IP addresses in server logs are not personal data | OUT-LAW.COM

Internet Service Providers are allowed to store internet protocol addresses without violating data protection legislation according to a German court ruling.

Ask.com rearms with semantics, rich media in search war

Ask.com have improved their search with the natural language semantic technology Direct Answers from Search (DAFS). This ARS Technica post describes the move. Ask.com rearms with semantics, rich media in search war –