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Mastering the art of disruptive innovation in journalism, in the Fall 2012 edition of the Nieman Reports. Great article. (If you only read one of the selected articles in this post, pick this one.) The ITU and its initiative to take over the Internet. “The Agency’s secret proceedings are ‘completely transparent’”… in UN Agency’s Leaked Playbook: Panic, Chaos over Anti-Internet Treaty. Google’s initiative: “A free and open world depends on a free and open web”, Take Action. Read more...

The Magazine, an e-zine for the iPad/iPhone. Founded by Marco Arment and edited by Glenn Fleishman, it publishes an issue with four articles every two weeks. “Rather than telling readers everything that happens in technology, we deliver meaningful editorial and big-picture articles.” ¿Se puede combatir la informalidad? Un artículo de Pedro José de Zavala sobre la informalidad, en tres partes: Definición, Cómo funciona y Quién debe hacerlo y cómo. Read more...

Some months ago Apple notified third-party App Store developers that tracking individual users phones (tracking the iPhone’s UDIDs) was no longer acceptable, and that infringing products would be removed from the store. However, with the launch of the iOS 6, Apple introduced a new tracking technology called IFA (Identifier for Advertisers), a random, anonymous number that is temporary and can be disabled, but that comes enabled by default. There are two ways to disable advertisers from tracking your phone usage: Read more...

The Pirate Bay announced some days ago that they are fully embracing the Cloud. Not only that: they are taking measures to make it difficult and pointless to seize their data centers: Our data flows around in thousands of clouds, in deeply encrypted forms, ready to be used when necessary. Earth bound nodes that transform the data are as deeply encrypted and reboot into a deadlock if not used for 8 hours. Read more...

Trailer of Karateka, a remake of the classic Apple II game by Jordan Mechner (also of Prince of Persia fame) Read more...