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Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview Under house arrest in England, the WikiLeaks founder opens up about his battle with the ‘Times,’ his stint in solitary and the future of journalism by: Michael Hastings via Rolling Stone It’s a few days before Christmas, and Julian Assange has just finished moving to a new hide-out deep in the English countryside. The two-bedroom house, on loan from a WikiLeaks supporter, is comfortable enough, with a big stone fireplace and a porch out back, but it’s not as grand as the country estate where he spent the past 363 days under house arrest, waiting for a British court to decide whether he will be extradited to Sweden to face allegations that he sexually molested two women he was briefly involved with in August 2010. Assange sits on a tattered couch, wearing a wool sweater, dark pants and an electronic manacle around his right ankle, visible only when he crosses his legs. At 40, the WikiLeaks founder comes across more like an embattled rebel commander than a hacker or journalist. He’s become better at handling the media – more willing to answer questions than he used to be, less likely to storm off during interviews – but the protracted legal battle has left him isolated, broke and vulnerable. Assange recently spoke to someone he calls a Western “intelligence source,” and he asked the official about his fate. Will he ever be a free man again, allowed to return to his native Australia, to come and go as he pleases? “He told me I was fucked,” Assange says. “Are you fucked?” I ask. Continue reading at Rolling Stone 

Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview

Under house arrest in England, the WikiLeaks founder opens up about his battle with the ‘Times,’ his stint in solitary and the future of journalism

by: Michael Hastings via Rolling Stone

It’s a few days before Christmas, and Julian Assange has just finished moving to a new hide-out deep in the English countryside. The two-bedroom house, on loan from a WikiLeaks supporter, is comfortable enough, with a big stone fireplace and a porch out back, but it’s not as grand as the country estate where he spent the past 363 days under house arrest, waiting for a British court to decide whether he will be extradited to Sweden to face allegations that he sexually molested two women he was briefly involved with in August 2010.

Assange sits on a tattered couch, wearing a wool sweater, dark pants and an electronic manacle around his right ankle, visible only when he crosses his legs. At 40, the WikiLeaks founder comes across more like an embattled rebel commander than a hacker or journalist. He’s become better at handling the media – more willing to answer questions than he used to be, less likely to storm off during interviews – but the protracted legal battle has left him isolated, broke and vulnerable. Assange recently spoke to someone he calls a Western “intelligence source,” and he asked the official about his fate. Will he ever be a free man again, allowed to return to his native Australia, to come and go as he pleases? “He told me I was fucked,” Assange says.

“Are you fucked?” I ask.

Continue reading at Rolling Stone 

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Richard MacManus posted a great interview with the co-founder of SoundCloud. Here’s an excerpt: Consumption & Sharing of Audio SoundCloud never wanted to be just another podcasting platform, but (in Ljung’s words) to be “sound sharing the way it should’ve been.” SoundCloud users can - and do - upload any form of audio to the Web, from music demos to 1-2 minute soliloques and even snippets of phone conversations. To get to the level of YouTube, though, there will need to be a huge increase in consumption of SoundCloud content. The Facebook partnership, along with integration into other discovery platforms, is going to be crucial. But Ljung stressed that the SoundCloud platform itself already encourages its users to interact with content. Each sound recording has a visual timeline bar and people can leave comments anywhere on the timeline. For example, at the 1:05 mark of a five minute recording, there may be a particularly striking piece of audio which attracted a lot of comments. So you might want to only listen to that specific part of the recording. I love the concept of using SoundCloud for podcasts and letting the audience participate in conversations at specific parts of the podcast. ~Chao (@cli6cli6) Read the rest of the interview at Read Write Web

Richard MacManus posted a great interview with the co-founder of SoundCloud. Here’s an excerpt:

Consumption & Sharing of Audio

SoundCloud never wanted to be just another podcasting platform, but (in Ljung’s words) to be “sound sharing the way it should’ve been.” SoundCloud users can - and do - upload any form of audio to the Web, from music demos to 1-2 minute soliloques and even snippets of phone conversations.

To get to the level of YouTube, though, there will need to be a huge increase in consumption of SoundCloud content. The Facebook partnership, along with integration into other discovery platforms, is going to be crucial. But Ljung stressed that the SoundCloud platform itself already encourages its users to interact with content.

Each sound recording has a visual timeline bar and people can leave comments anywhere on the timeline. For example, at the 1:05 mark of a five minute recording, there may be a particularly striking piece of audio which attracted a lot of comments. So you might want to only listen to that specific part of the recording.

I love the concept of using SoundCloud for podcasts and letting the audience participate in conversations at specific parts of the podcast. ~Chao (@cli6cli6)

Read the rest of the interview at Read Write Web

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Q-and-A with Lars Schmidt: How NPR uses social media for recruiting

NPR has a very strong consumer brand. How do you integrate that with the employer brand, particularly in social media?

We’re fortunate to have a great consumer brand, active and established channels in social media, and many engaged followers and fans. To me, that was the perfect foundation upon which to begin building our employment branding strategy and social media will play a huge part in that. We started with launching@NPRjobs on Twitter as I felt that would be a good platform for building community. The intent of the feed covers several areas: sharing NPR job opportunities, providing a “behind the scenes” look at life at NPR, curating and sharing career advice and job search resources, and using our reach to create more awareness of career opportunities across public media.

The actual job sharing is less than 20% of the content that comes from that account. That’s by design. I think it’s really important for companies to look beyond job broadcasting. Job broadcasting alone is not community. If you really want to build a community, you need to share useful information and resources that your followers value. Jobs should be a part of that of course, but it shouldn’t be the sole focus.

We recently launched the Twitter hashtag #PubJobs to help drive awareness for careers in public media. This is a collaborative effort to help those interested in careers in this industry find jobs. Member stations across the country are participating, as is American Public Media, PBS and producers and distributors. It’s a great example of how we can leverage social media and the collective reach of our platforms to shine a bright light on careers across public media. It’s only a few weeks old, but has tremendous potential.

Via Gizmodo I Flunked My Social Media Background Check. Will You? First, some context: In May, the FTC gave a company called Social Intelligence the green light to run background checks of your Internet and social media history. The media made a big hulabaloo out of the ruling. And it largely got two important facts wrong. Contrary to initial reports, Social Intelligencedoesn’t store seven years worth of your social data. Rather it looks at up to seven years of your history, and stores nothing.

Via Gizmodo

I Flunked My Social Media Background Check. Will You?

First, some context: In May, the FTC gave a company called Social Intelligence the green light to run background checks of your Internet and social media history. The media made a big hulabaloo out of the ruling. And it largely got two important facts wrong.

Contrary to initial reports, Social Intelligencedoesn’t store seven years worth of your social data. Rather it looks at up to seven years of your history, and stores nothing.

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