Course agenda – Glasgow June 23rd

Agenda for Advanced Internet Research course for the NUJ on June 23rd.

Notebook options: Yahoo Search Pad; Snapbits; and, notebook G

Stay on top of your research…..Three other notebook tools that help you organise your clips, bookmarks, notes, documents and screenshots in ‘notebooks’ or project files.

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

Anonymous web browsing using Tor for Mac users.

Research anonymity using Tor

Heads up on the Tor Project anonymity online and an embedded introduction by Unwired.

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 [...]

Privacy and the Semantic Web

Semantic Web pioneer John Breslin has responded to my articles on Web 3.0 in his post on his Cloudlands blog.

The Semantic Web today – An Interview with John Breslin

Everyone assumes that the ’semantic web’ will mean we’ll have better search engines. In fact, Web 3.0 will do a lot more, and journalists and researchers should be ahead of the curve.
Not many people are as close to the heart of the Semantic Web as John Breslin. John is the founder of the Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) project, a member of the W3C Advisory Committee, lecturer at the National University of Ireland and an associate researcher on the semantic web at the Digital Research Institute in Galway.

I caught up with John recently for this analysis of the semantic web and journalism published by journalism.co.uk. John’s points were so interesting that Insite has brought you the full interview.

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.

Reasons not to take part in the BT Webwise trial

Using BT Webwise? Here are a couple of links that discuss the downside of the new trial that allows BT to monitor the internet use of thousands of its customers. It hopes to use results to develop targeted advertising.