Station X
StationX in its modern incarnation was born on the 16th of February 2009. The intention was to create a social media geek-meet, offering access to Bletchley Park for bloggers, tech lovers and social...
View ArticleBrowse the censored internet on your iPad
I’m trying out ‘Covert Browser’ on the iPad. It’s not a cheap app at £1.99 but I can’t find anything else Tor enabled in the official app store. If the integration of the open source version of Tor...
View ArticleCloud storage and that syncing feeling
What do I want with yet another cloud back-up and syncing service? Well free space for a start. Storage space for sharing my media, be it books, images, music and films etc. And then there is the...
View ArticlePublic until proven otherwise
I once heard of a TV journalist who kept the names and addresses of his Syrian sources in a little black book, and all the video he shot of activists, complete with faces, on an open hard drive. He was...
View ArticleWorking in Digital Journalism (Case Studies)
Philip O’Connor (Stockholm) Jemima Kiss (London) Phil Sands (Beirut) When I first started working at a daily newspaper there was a darkroom alongside a bank of neg scanners. It was 2001 and thankfully...
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