#Students in #Quebec were asked to send the #police the route of their march. Here’s what they replied with! pic.twitter.com/uRXpjPyB (via Quebec Student Protests on Social Media (VIDEO) · mashable · Storify)
The number of governments that censor Internet content has grown to 40 today from about four in 2002. And this number is still growing, threatening to take away the Internet as you and I have known it. (via Keep the Internet Open - NYTimes.com)
To celebrate its seventh birthday, YouTube boasts that 72 hours of video is being uploaded to the site every minute. That figure was 48 hours one year ago, meaning YouTube is experiencing strong growth in video uploads. This growth in uploads may indicate that emerging competition from social video apps like Viddy and Socialcam isn’t yet cause for concern at YouTube. But if Facebook buys either Viddy or Socialcam, then suddenly YouTube would have a problem - because then there would be a large competitor offering easy video sharing. Another concern for YouTube is that its video views have decreased every month this year. After a record traffic year in 2011 and an all-time peak of 21.8 billion video views served in January, monthly views started to go backwards. In February, it was 18.5 billion views, March 16.5 billion and April 15.6 billion. (via YouTube’s Big Transition: Moving From Amateur to Professional Era of Online Video)
No doubt about it, Teachers are heroes! This infographic gives interesting statistics and numbers and makes an excellent point about the “calling” of teaching, as opposed to a regular profession. (via Teachers are Heroes (Infographic) | Teaching in the Middle)
what’s the nature of the reward in a dog’s brain? Is it the prospect of the hot dog alone that triggers the response, or does pleasing a human by doing a drill correctly play a part? As I wrote in this Time story in 2009, a new field called canine cognition is taking shape to address these questions. Until now, canine cognition studies have been limited to basic psychological experiments, such as seeing how well dogs can make sense of a pointed hand. Now we can start to see what’s happening inside the canine brain during some of those experiments as well. (via Scanning man’s best friend | The Loom | Discover Magazine)
It’s frightening. You’ll spend most of your waking life at a job, yet, according to a new study by TheLadders, the average recruiter spends just six seconds looking at your resume. By the end of that time, they’ll determine whether you’re “a fit” or a “no fit.” (via How To Redesign Your Resume For A Recruiter’s 6-Second Attention Span | Co.Design: business innovation design)
The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open-source reference for anyone interested in the field of data journalism. It features contributions from over 70 of the leading global voices of authority and has now been released, remarkably only 6 months after its conception. It is a joint initiative between the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation and is published by O’Reilly Media. (via Visualising Data » Blog Archive » The Data Journalism Handbook is now live)
The MIT SENSEable City Lab, in partnership with BBVA, visualizes spending in Spain during Easter of 2011. The animation shows the activity of 1.4 million people and 374,220 businesses, over 4 million transactions. (via Easter spending patterns in Spain, animated)
We do not currently directly generate any meaningful revenue from the use of Facebook mobile products, and our ability to do so successfully is unproven. Accordingly, if users continue to increasingly access Facebook mobile products as a substitute for access through personal computers, and if we are unable to successfully implement monetization strategies for our mobile users, our revenue and financial results may be negatively affected. (via Web 2.0 Is Over, All Hail the Age of Mobile | PandoDaily)
