Everything is explained fully, and written in its most basic form. I don't tell you what to do, I show you how I did it. I also provide examples of what I continue to do, as well as links to wonderful people who will help you in your journey.If you're not a social media guru...if you're someone who perhaps knows that you should be using Twitter and Facebook and other social media platforms, but aren't entirely sure how you should be using them or what you should be saying, then this book is for you. However, if you already know what you're doing and are just looking for the 'secret' to having a bestselling book, you'll be disappointed. There is no secret.'My Way' is quite simply a story. It's the journey I took from the unknown to the acknowledged; from being in the abyss of the Amazon charts to making my way to the top.Selection of the many 5***** reviews received for "MY WAY" across Amazon!"His advice worked for me. 'My Way' is like a handful of jewels, scattered out in front of you.""If my second book's steady trickle of sales goes on building, he might have helped me to 'kick start' my sales." "Thanks to David's advice I got almost 2000 free downloads & since then, almost 100 sales in the days following.""I'm now working my way through the book and applying ideas to the promotion of my own novel." "My Way is the first book I've read that provides really usable tips & advice on how to get your book noticed.""Not an author but the marketing tips in this book will help me push my company forward in social media." "No hesitation in giving this 5 stars. Thanks David for publishing "MY WAY". I intend to put the advice into practice.""Picked it up & read it through in one sitting. "My Way" has some great tips for any indie author." "Followed David on twitter for a while & seen how successful his work has been, so when My Way came out, it was a no-brainer.""Internet is a vast place & there's a hell of a lot of books, so DON'T GO PUBLISHING WITHOUT IT, GOOD PEOPLE!""Having read Dave's first book & enjoyed his conversational style I decided to give it a try & I'm glad I did.""I read "My Way" in an hour & now the world is my oyster. Highly recommended.""Must-have for all new authors. Priceless information, succinct & neat, without any waffle." "Lots of tips - generous & encouraging- someone you would want to have a cup of tea with after finishing the book." "Just spent a happy afternoon following David's advice and, frankly, it is enlightening! Packed with lots of facts about creating the best self promotion platform for the indie author.""For somebody who is just starting on the #self-publishing experience this book would be an excellent.

    But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the Internet.McChesney’s award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information is a democratic one. In Digital Disconnect, McChesney returns to this provocative thesis in light of the advances of the digital age. He argues that the sharp decline in the enforcement of antitrust violations, the increase in patents on digital technology and proprietary systems and massive indirect subsidies and other policies have made the internet a place of numbing commercialism. A handful of monopolies now dominate the political economy, from Google, which garners a 97 percent share of the mobile search market, to Microsoft, whose operating system is used by over 90 percent of the world’s computers. Capitalism’s colonization of the Internet has spurred the collapse of credible journalism and made the internet an unparalleled apparatus for government and corporate surveillance and a disturbingly antidemocratic force.In Digital Disconnect, Robert McChesney offers a groundbreaking critique of the Internet, urging us to reclaim the democratizing potential of the digital revolution while we still can.

    Does that mean you should build a list and spam people with offer after offer? Heck no. I say that the relationship is in the list.An email list can be a vital asset to your online business — as long as you treat it with care. Subscribers are more than a collection of email addresses. They're a group of people who have a specific interest in your niche topic. Treat them right and you’ll create a lifelong asset.In "Email Marketing Blueprint" you'll learn what Steve Scott has done to build engaged email lists that exceed 90,000 total subscribers.

    Elon Musk is the main person in the journey through a roller-coaster life. His journey includes everything from Winston Churchill’s adventures in British colonies to demolished sports cars. From failed marriages to German scientists escaping from the Red Army. From the oil industry to the Burning Man festival.Elon has been described as the Steve Jobs of heavy industry, as a modern version of the scientist Nikola Tesla, and as the Henry Ford of rockets. There’s a high probability that the British Secret Intelligence Service has a file on him. As the files of other James Bond villains, it describes secret rocket launches in the Pacific Ocean. But Elon doesn’t own a white cat - he’s more of a dog person. Maybe the most comparable persons are the great explorers who voyaged across the globe. They had an entrepreneurial spirit, were a little crazy, tried what no one else had tried, and thought what no one else had thought.If you want to describe the companies Elon has founded with one theme, you can say that they improve the world with the help of innovative technologies. This is exactly what our world needs.Buy it here: https://leanpub.com/theengineer/

    Jarett Kobek’s second novel, BTW, presents the tragicomedy of a young man in Los Angeles balancing a lunatic father, two catastrophic relationships, identity politics, and American pop culture at its most confused.

    And every few years, it really is. This book explains why.In this important new work, On Internet Freedom, leading advocate and First Amendment scholar Marvin Ammori explores why the Internet is continually under threat, what’s at stake in the battle for Internet freedom, and how Internet users can rise up to protect their rights. Written for average Internet users, not just for lawyers and technologists, this accessible book explains these issues and their significance for anyone who has ever sent an email.Internet freedom has become as fundamental as the right to vote. As the Internet continues to evolve and take on a larger role in our democracy and economy, our freedoms come under ever greater threat. Although new technologies may increase our connectivity and make our communications more secure, technology alone is not enough. In the face of misguided efforts by governments and corporations to increase their control over the Internet by bending and shaping the laws, everyday users must be willing to work together and jump into the political process at key moments to protect their own rights. These struggles can help ensure a more inclusive democracy in which the few will not control the speech rights of the many. Ammori analyzes three related case studies on the freedom of users to connect with one another—the fight against copyright legislation known as SOPA; the reactions to government officials pressuring private companies like PayPal (in the case of WikiLeaks) and YouTube (in the case of The Innocence of Muslims) to silence speech by means of private “terms of service”; and the long pursuit of network neutrality and its importance to the connected future we will soon live in. Ammori identifies the key arguments and the major stakes in these struggles over the future of our basic freedoms. He also clarifies the roles of key players—including you.

    She enjoys shopping and dressing pretty and whatnot, but the fact is that she's hardly average. Some would debate she's even a girl! In truth, Rain is a male-to-female transsexual. Join Rain as she attempts to survive her senior year in high school passing solely as a woman in this slice-of-life comedy. Volume 1 includes the first six chapters of the story as they are seen online at DeviantArt, SmackJeeves and Comic Fury. Also included are the many ""Rain Delay"" gag segments and an exclusive bonus chapter that won't be seen online.

    Millions found their voices in this brave new online world; it gave unheard masses the space to speak to each other without limits, across borders, both physical and social. It was supposed to liberate us from gender. But as more and more of our daily lives migrated on line, it seemed it did matter if you were a boy or a girl.’It's a tough time to be a woman on the internet. Over the past two generations, the political map of human relations has been redrawn by feminism and by changes in technology. Together they pose questions about the nature and organisation of society that are deeply challenging to those in power, and in both cases, the backlash is on. In this brave new world, old-style sexism is making itself felt in new and frightening ways. In Cybersexism, Laurie Penny goes to the dark heart of the matter and asks why threats of rape and violence are being used to try to silence female voices, analyses the structure of online misogyny, and makes a case for real freedom of speech – for everyone.

    With her bank and the authorities being less than helpful she reaches out for assistance on the internet. What better way to get her money back than by the same method it was taken? Bradley Witson is having an amazing streak of good luck when his entire world is blown to bits. A militia group sets off a bomb and killed his friends in a horrible act of domestic terrorism. Mired in mourning and despair the hacker is looking for something, anything, that will make him feel again. He receives a request for help and is immediately drawn to the damsel in distress. He uses his quick wits and fingers to find satisfaction for his lady love until knowing Wit causes new problems. As the star witness for the prosecution Wit is ready to help convict the killers. The militia has a plan to avoid prosecution and Wit stands in their way.What will they do to prevent their men from going to prison?

    LACONIA experimented with new modes of writing and criticism, updating traditional literary forms and practices like the aphorism and the fragment. Re-imagining the wound-and-quest story, the love narrative, and the female subject in love in the digital age, Love Dog is the second installment in Masha Tupitsyn's trilogy of immaterial writing. Written as a multi-media blog and inspired by Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse and Mourning Diary—a couple in Tupitsyn's mind—Love Dog is an art book that is part love manifesto, part philosophical notebook, part digital liturgy. The trilogy will culminate with the sound installation Love Sounds/Love Tests, an audio history of love in cinema. For Love Dog's 2-part playlist:Part I: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...Part II: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...Love Dog book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNDWwA...

    Barnet combines an analysis of contemporary literature with her exclusive interviews with those at the forefront of the hypertext innovation. She tells both the human and the technological story, tracing its path back to an analogue device imagined by Vannevar Bush in 1945, before modern computing had happened.'Memory Machines' offers an expansive record of hypertext over the last 60 years, pinpointing the major breakthroughs and fundamental flaws in its evolution. Barnet argues that some of the earliest hypertext systems were more richly connected and in some respects more flexible than the Web; this is also a fascinating account of the paths not taken.Barnet ends the journey through computing history at the birth of mass domesticated hypertext, at the point that it grew out of the university labs and into the Web. And yet she suggests that hypertext may not have completed its evolutionary story, and may still have the capacity to become something different, something much better than it is today.

    The course introduces the architecture, structure, functions, components, and models of the Internet and computer networks. The principles of IP addressing and fundamentals of Ethernet concepts, media, and operations are introduced to provide a foundation for the curriculum. By the end of the course, you will be able to build simple LANs, perform basic configurations for routers and switches, and implement IP addressing schemes. The Companion Guide is designed as a portable desk reference to use anytime, anywhere to reinforce the material from the course and organize your time. The book s features help you focus on important concepts to succeed in this course:Chapter Objectives Review core concepts by answering the focus questions listed at the beginning of each chapter. Key Terms Refer to the lists of networking vocabulary introduced and highlighted in context in each chapter. Glossary Consult the comprehensive Glossary with more than 195 terms. Summary of Activities and Labs Maximize your study time with this complete list of all associated practice exercises at the end of each chapter. Check Your Understanding Evaluate your readiness with the end-of-chapter questions that match the style of questions you see in the online course quizzes. The answer key explains each answer. Related Title: Introduction to Networks Lab Manual ISBN-10: 1-58713-312-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-58713-312-1How To Look for this icon to study the steps you need to learn to perform certain tasks. Interactive Activities Reinforce your understanding of topics with more than 50 different exercises from the online course identified throughout the book with this icon. Videos Watch the videos embedded within the online course. Packet Tracer Activities Explore and visualize networking concepts using Packet Tracer exercises interspersed throughout the chapters. Hands-on Labs Work through all 66 course labs and Class Activities that are included in the course and published in the separate Lab Manual. This book is part of the Cisco Networking Academy Series from Cisco Press(r). Books in this series support and complement the Cisco Networking Academy curriculum. "

    Pinterest prose, LinkedIn lit, irony over Instagram – or Facebook flash fiction. Digital media is now an inescapable facet of how we live, and it influences what and how we read and write. Today’s fiction not only incorporates emails, iPads and even good old MySpace into storylines, but also integrates interactive conventions into the actual form and structure of the work – creating hybrid forms in which a tweet or status update becomes a site for literary exploration.Friend. Follow. Text is a short-fiction anthology that explores the intersection between social media and literature. This book brings together highly creative work whose content and form are inspired by social media – great, often funny writing that moves beyond using digital forms as mere gimmicks.The anthology showcases the work of a diverse range of contributors including Steven Heighton, Heather Birrell, Zoe Whittall, Greg Kearney and Jessica Westhead, with a mix of new writing alongside judiciously selected and underexposed reprints."Longing for connection – and the ineffable unhappiness that results – is an old phenomenon for the species, but the wild-ass speed that we now cycle through those states is damn unprecedented. Every new human experience demands a new language, and the stories in Friend. Follow. Text. take the brave steps toward that."Brian Joseph Davis, creator of The Composites

    This book is full of practical code examples aimed at a beginner to ease his or her learning curve.This book is written for IT professionals and enthusiasts who are interested in quickly getting a powerful telephony system up and running using the free and open source application, FreeSWITCH.Telephony experience will be helpful, but not required.

    If you are new to blogging and want to create your own blog or website from scratch, then "WordPress 3.5 Complete: Third Edition" is for you. No prior knowledge of HTML/CSS or PHP is required.

    You’ll have strong passwords that are easy to remember and 99% of the time you’ll get in to the website on the first try!

    Written with the non-technical person in mind, this book will explain how scams work, red flag clues for recognizing a scam before you become a victim, and actual real-world examples on the most popular social media sites in use today.This volume explores more in depth:- a little history on the rise of social media sites- in depth descriptions of social media scams on: * Facebook, YouTube, eBay, Twitter, Craigslist, LinkedIn, and more * Dating websites- understanding security on social media sites, including for childrenHighly readable and accessible, this book will provide the tools you need to detect and protect yourself, and your money, from despicable Internet scammers.Available on Amazon at: http://amzn.to/RZSfZc

    Cultural assimilation, which was ardently championed by churchmen like the great Cardinal James Gibbons of Baltimore around the turn of the last century, has undoubtedly conferred many benefits on Catholics. Their absorption into the secular culture of America, however, now threatens the Catholic identity of millions of faithful and of their institutions, such as schools, universities, and hospitals. Shaw does not offer this conclusion as an unsupported generalization. The Gibbons Legacy is a richly documented analysis of a process extending over two centuries. Colorful characters and dramatic incidents abound, including the nineteenth-century intellectual feud between Father Orestes Brownson and the Transcendentalist convert to Catholicism Isaac Hecker, Pope Leo XIII's condemnation of Americanism, the anti-Catholicism that greeted the presidential campaigns of Al Smith and John F. Kennedy, and the numerous intra-Church conflicts that have divided American Catholics since the Second Vatican Council. In concluding his study, Shaw offers a number of thoughtprovoking suggestions about what the Church in America needs to do now in the face of an ongoing decline that is sapping its strength and may threaten its very survival.

    I debated long and hard whether to share it publicly. My Extreme Cruelty journey led me from the highs of a wonderful job with significant leadership responsibilities, respect, confidence, trust, and moderate wealth to the lows of unproductivity, unemployment, multiple deaths, isolation, depression, financial ruin, and utter humiliation. Did I really want to openly share this with others?"After August Moore finds himself divorced and lonely, a budding online romance with a woman named Crystal reignites his lust for life. She is everything he wants—beautiful, professional, and willing to explore the adventurous side of life. The only problem is that her job places her thousands of miles away, and for months their plans to meet are mysteriously thwarted. In a state of love-induced naïveté, August is willing to go to outrageous lengths for the woman he loves.Discovering that she comes as a "package deal" with her best friend Leona, August becomes entangled in a web of duplicity and compromised values. Blinded by his new-found love, he is led down a path that yields bizarre experiences with every step. And at the end of the path, Crystal is not all that she seems…A true-crime story of love, deception, and redemption, Extreme Cruelty serves as a warning that professional con artists are actively seeking to take advantage of those who are vulnerable and willing to compromise their entire lives for the sake of love. Part I details how August falls into this elaborate con and the loss he experiences as a result. His story is real… and it could also happen to you.

    But when she gets invited to Plus Style's blogger conference, she gets more than she bargained for: a nemesis in the form of a bratty blogger; a possible job opportunity with the foremost plus size retailer in the country; and a really cute guy who completely shakes up her love life. With nothing but her wits and a closet full of fabulous clothes, Elizabeth tries to decide where exactly she wants to go - in life and in love. First in the Bombshell Beauty Series of novellas.

    This friendly and easy-to-understand guide provides you with the tools you need to establish a creative, unique, and aesthetically memorable blog without having to learn how to code beyond some basic CSS. Whether you're looking to write for a major brand, become a brand ambassador, sell a product, acquire new clients, advocate for a cause, or simply tell a story, you'll find design tricks, helpful techniques, and invaluable advice for creating a great-looking and functional blog.Provides the tools you need to understand what makes a successful blog from a design standpoint Teaches you CSS coding that can be used to create an effective blog design that gets noticed Helps you make design decisions regarding colors, fonts, and imagery Places special emphasis on providing your readers with a site that is easy to use thanks to smart navigation Blog Design For Dummies empowers you to make smart and creative adjustments to your blog so that you can be the proud owner of an effective blog design that gets noticed!

    Analyzing campaign strategies, structures, and tactics from the past fivepresidential election cycles, Stromer-Galley reveals how, for all their vaunted inclusivity and tantalizing promise of increased two-way communication between candidates and the individuals who support them, DCTs have done little to change the fundamental dynamics of campaigns. The expansion of newtechnologies has presented candidates with greater opportunities to micro-target potential voters, cheaper and easier ways to raise money, and faster and more innovative ways to respond to opponents. The need for communication control and management, however, has made campaigns slow and loathe toexperiment with truly interactive internet communication technologies.Citizen involvement in the campaign historically has been and, as this book shows, continues to be a means to an end: winning the election for the candidate. For all the proliferation of apps to download, polls to click, videos to watch, and messages to forward, the decidedly undemocratic view ofcontrolled interactivity is how most campaigns continue to operate.Contributing to the field a much-needed historical understanding of the shifting communication practices of presidential campaigns, Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age examines election cycles from 1996, when the World Wide Web was first used for presidential campaigning, through 2012, whenpractices were being tuned to perfection using data analytics for carefully targeting and mobilizing particular voter segments. As the book charts changes in internet communication technologies, it shows how, even as campaigns have moved responsively from a mass mediated to a networked paradigm, andfrom fundraising to organizing, the possibilities these shifts in interactivity seem to promise for citizen input and empowerment remain much farther than a click away.

    Equally, the concept of virtuality is not the province of one field of study alone but is the foundation and driving force of many, both theoretical and applied.Our conceptualizations and applications of virtuality are multiple, as contributors demonstrate across the nine sections of the book that move from philosophy to technologies and applications before returning to philosophy again for a discussion of the utopias and dystopias of virtuality. The almost 50 essays contained within range freely across subjects that include the potential of virtuality, ethics, virtuality and self, presence and immersion, virtual emotions, image, sound and literature, computer games, AI and A-Life, Augmented Reality and Real Virtuality, law and economics, medical and military applications, religion, and cybersex.Throughout, contributors discuss differences between virtuality, reality, and actuality, in debates filtered through the lenses of the disciplines represented here, and speculate on future directions. It is not at all clear that there are differences and, if such distinctions are to be found, the boundaries between virtuality, reality, and actuality continually shift as ideas, modes of organization, and behaviors constantly flow from one to the other regardless of direction. The Handbook presents no unified definition of virtuality to comfort the reader, rather a multiplicity of questions and approaches underpinned by provocative statements that should further fuel the debates surrounding our notions of virtuality.

    Don't accept friendship requests from people you've never met.2. Don't look at their photos.3. Don't fall in love.----------A gripping YA novel for the Facebook generation."I love you."Lilly's heart misses a beat when these words appear on her screen. Okay, she'd love to have a boyfriend, and when Ian sends her a friendship request, she eagerly accepts. He just looks so gorgeous in the pictures. But when she's about to meet him in person, things take a dramatic turn. Who is Ian really? And how far will he go to get what he wants?

    Each chapter implements a game within a well-understood genre; introduces a different free, open source, and easy-to-use HTML5 game engine; and is accompanied with full JavaScript source code listings. Each game recipe uses tested and well-proven patterns that address the development challenges unique to that genre, and shows how to use existing tools and engines to build complete substantial game projects in just hours. Need a quick JavaScript primer? Evan Burchard provides that, too! Coverage includes - Mastering an essential HTML5/JavaScript game development toolset: browser, text editor, terminal, JavaScript console, game engine, and more - Accelerating development with external libraries and proven patterns - Managing browser differences between IE, Firefox, and Chrome - Getting up to speed on web development with a QUIZ game built with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and JQuery - Creating INTERACTIVE FICTION "gamebooks" that leverage new CSS3 features and impress.js - Building PARTY games around the lightweight atom.js engine - Developing PUZZLE games with the easel.js graphics rendering engine - Writing PLATFORMERS with melon.js and its integrated tilemap editor - Coding intense 2-player FIGHTING games for web browsers with game.js - Building a SPACE SHOOTER with the jQuery-based gameQuery game engine - Implementing pseudo-3D techniques like ray casting for an FPS (First Person Shooter) style game - Producing a 16 bit RPG (Role Playing Game) complete with interfaces for dialog, inventories, and turn-based battles with enchant.js - Building an isometric RTS (Real Time Strategy) game that incorporates server components along with node.js, socket.io, and crafty.js - Engaging players with content that encourages exploration Turn to The Web Game Developer's Cookbook for proven, expert answers-and the code you need to implement them. It's all you need to jumpstart any web game project!

    In 2010, Curran's childhood dream became a reality when he was drafted in the 3rd round of the NFL Draft after a spectacular career as an All-American linebacker at the University of Georgia. Everything seemed to be going according to plan; however, Curran would suddenly be thrust into a situation that would make him question everything about himself and his purpose in this world.Rennie Curran’s story is one of a lifelong journey; a journey of highs and lows, triumph and adversity, and the ability to overcome that adversity through faith and strength. In Free Agent: The Perspectives of a Young African-American Athlete, Curran recounts his experiences in hopes that his story will help others who are facing similar crossroads in their journey of life, giving them the inspiration they need to overcome any obstacles they may encounter on the way to finding and attaining their dreams

    The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a valuable resource for academics and students in this area, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied and how the research agenda should be pursued in the future. The Handbook aims to focus on Internet Studies as an emerging field, each chapter seeking to provide a synthesis and critical assessment of the research in a particular area. Topics covered include social perspectives on the technology of the Internet, its role in everyday life and work, implications for communication, power, and influence, and the governance and regulation of the Internet. The Handbook is a landmark in this new interdisciplinary field, not only helping to strengthen research on the key questions, but also shape research, policy, and practice across many disciplines that are finding the Internet and its political, economic, cultural, and other societal implications increasingly central to their own key areas of inquiry.

    To her that meant a husband, being a mother, and the house with the white picket fence. Unfortunately, due to bad luck and bad choices, she was in the middle of divorce number two, and choosing a life of celibacy.One night, she came across a new world to her…the internet. Chatting, message boxes, strangers in the night; even though she fought it at first, it proved to be more interesting than the quiet life she was experiencing at home alone while her two teenagers were out. She met people; she talked, laughed, and cried, all in the comfort of her living room. One day she met Ray Knight, or Maineman, as he was known in the room. She got to know him differently than any other relationship she had ever had. They weren’t looking for romance, they were true friends. What started out as fun and simple ended up with her on a roller coaster ride she couldn’t get off.Ray lived in Portland, Maine and wanted a divorce. The only thing was his wife didn’t know about it. The complication of a long distance relationship added more stress…and happiness…than he had ever known.Separately they went through the ups and downs of their everyday life coming together each night on the computer. They supported each other through all of it, finally realizing their relationship was more than friendship, but one they had both been searching for all of their lives. The worst part about it was the 2500 miles that separated them, and the lives they had built apart

    This new book from entrepreneur and communications guru Trevor Young, shows you how to tap into your particular area of expertise and build a small business around what you know and love. No matter what particular subject you're knowledgeable in, from dog training to cooking to financial planning, "microDomination" shows you how to build a brand around yourself and turn that brand and expertise into profits even from the comfort of your own home.In the first part of the book, Young uses real-life examples to introduce you to the businesspeople--or "micro mavens"--who are living their dreams and earning money doing what they love. The second part of the book reveals the nuts-and-bolts strategies and tactics you can use to emulate their success and achieve your goal of "microdominating."Includes inspirational case studies and practical advice on starting a micro-business based on your talent or expertiseFeatures actionable guidance on using content marketing and social media to grow your brand and businessWritten by a leading thinker in the fields of public relations, marketing, and communicationsIf you're stuck in a dead-end job or just dream of turning your hobby into a business, "microDomination" gives you a proven plan for turning your passion into prosperity.

    As she watches her nation being destroyed by bombs from U.S. and NATO planes, a Yugoslavian woman lashes out at the smug American man who insists that the attack is fully justified and long overdue. The angry exchanges between two ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary time gradually become less confrontational as they discover each other's mind and spirit. The War is always present, but their initial enmity is gradually and almost unwillingly transformed into an extraordinary friendship, and then something much more.

    When users can browse the Web on a three-inch phone screen as easily as on a fifty-inch HDTV, what's a developer to do?Peter Gasston's The Modern Web will guide you through the latest and most important tools of device-agnostic web development, including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. His plain-English explanations and practical examples emphasize the techniques, principles, and practices that you'll need to easily transcend individual browser quirks and stay relevant as these technologies are updated.Learn how to:Plan your content so that it displays fluidly across multiple devices Design websites to interact with devices using the most up-to-date APIs, including Geolocation, Orientation, and Web Storage Incorporate cross-platform audio and video without using troublesome plug-ins Make images and graphics scalable on high-resolution devices with SVG Use powerful HTML5 elements to design better formsTurn outdated websites into flexible, user-friendly ones that take full advantage of the unique capabilities of any device or browser. With the help of The Modern Web, you'll be ready to navigate the front lines of device-independent development.

    Most of it is caught by filters before ever reaching an in-box. Where does it come from? As Finn Brunton explains in Spam, it is produced and shaped by many different populations around the world: programmers, con artists, bots and their botmasters, pharmaceutical merchants, marketers, identity thieves, crooked bankers and their victims, cops, lawyers, network security professionals, vigilantes, and hackers. Every time we go online, we participate in the system of spam, with choices, refusals, and purchases the consequences of which we may not understand.This is a book about what spam is, how it works, and what it means. Brunton provides a cultural history that stretches from pranks on early computer networks to the construction of a global criminal infrastructure. The history of spam, Brunton shows us, is a shadow history of the Internet itself, with spam emerging as the mirror image of the online communities it targets. Brunton traces spam through three epochs: the 1970s to 1995, and the early, noncommercial computer networks that became the Internet; 1995 to 2003, with the dot-com boom, the rise of spam's entrepreneurs, and the first efforts at regulating spam; and 2003 to the present, with the war of algorithms--spam versus anti-spam. Spam shows us how technologies, from email to search engines, are transformed by unintended consequences and adaptations, and how online communities develop and invent governance for themselves.

    This visual book shows you how to incorporate forums, use RSS, obtain and review analytics, work with tools like Google AdSense, and much more.Shows you how to use mobile tools to edit and update blogs, implement SEO, and incorporate blogs into other services such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter and vice versa Shares insight on best practices for maximizing WordPress.com and WordPress.org, customizing templates, and creating written and visual content Offers advice for working with a variety of other tools and sites to get maximum results for your blog Beef up your blog completely with Teach Yourself VISUALLY Complete WordPress!

    Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The Democratic Surround, the decades that brought us the Korean War and communist witch hunts also witnessed an extraordinary turn toward explicitly democratic, open, and inclusive ideas of communication and with them new, flexible models of social order. Surprisingly, he shows that it was this turn that brought us the revolutionary multimedia and wild-eyed individualism of the 1960s counterculture.In this prequel to his celebrated book From Counterculture to Cyberculture, Turner rewrites the history of postwar America, showing how in the 1940s and ’50s American liberalism offered a far more radical social vision than we now remember. Turner tracks the influential mid-century entwining of Bauhaus aesthetics with American social science and psychology. From the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the New Bauhaus in Chicago and Black Mountain College in North Carolina, Turner shows how some of the most well-known artists and intellectuals of the forties developed new models of media, new theories of interpersonal and international collaboration, and new visions of an open, tolerant, and democratic self in direct contrast to the repression and conformity associated with the fascist and communist movements. He then shows how their work shaped some of the most significant media events of the Cold War, including Edward Steichen’s Family of Man exhibition, the multimedia performances of John Cage, and, ultimately, the psychedelic Be-Ins of the sixties. Turner demonstrates that by the end of the 1950s this vision of the democratic self and the media built to promote it would actually become part of the mainstream, even shaping American propaganda efforts in Europe.Overturning common misconceptions of these transformational years, The Democratic Surround shows just how much the artistic and social radicalism of the sixties owed to the liberal ideals of Cold War America, a democratic vision that still underlies our hopes for digital media today.

    From its inception in 1947, the Polaroid system inspired artists to experiment--to dazzling effect--with the cameras' unique technologies. Edwin Land, the inventor of the first Polaroid instant camera, remarked on his discovery, "Photography will never be the same." And he was right. This fascinating journey through the Polaroid era documents the evolution of instant photography. Hundreds of color images celebrate the myriad ways Polaroid photographs have been used and ingeniously manipulated by Walker Evans, David Hockney, Barbara Kasten, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lucas Samaras, and others. The book features essays addressing the unique technology of instant photography and the marketing genius of the Polaroid Corporation. Artist statements from Ellen Carey, Chuck Close, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Bryan Graf, Miranda Lichtenstein, David Levinthal, Joy Neimanas, Lisa Oppenheim, Catherine Opie, John Reuter, William Wegman, and James Welling reveal how Polaroids affected and, in many instances, forever changed the way they captured the world around them.

    It is a love story that will make you cry and laugh at the sweetness it depicts. Mia is a corporate lawyer who is in the process of divorcing her husband Nate, when she met Charlie Warner on Facebook. Slowly, the acquaintance develops into attachment and finally love, but will Mia find her true love?

    diplomatic cables in what became referred to as 'Cablegate', put WikiLeaks into the international spotlight and sparked intense about the role and impact of leaks in a digital era. Beyond WikiLeaks opens a space to reflect on the broader implications across political and media fields, and on the transformations that result from new forms of leak journalism and transparency activism. A select group of renowned scholars, international experts, and WikiLeaks 'insiders' discuss the consequences of the WikiLeaks saga for traditional media, international journalism, freedom of expression, policymaking, civil society, social change, and international politics. From short insider reports to elaborate and theoretically informed academic texts, the different chapters provide critical assessments of the current historical juncture of our mediatized society and offer outlooks of the future. Authors include, amongst others, Harvard University's Yochai Benkler, Graham Murdoch of Loughborough University, net activism scholar, Gabriella Coleman, the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jillian York, and Guardian editor, Chris Elliott. The book also includes a conversation between philosopher, Slavoj Zizek, and WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, and its prologue is written by Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Icelandic MP and editor of the WikiLeaks video, `Collateral Murder`.

    Based on real life true events this is the story of Joe Hughes a divorcee caught up in the whirlwind of internet dating. Based on true events this is a steamy passionate tale of love and lust found on the internet. Having amassed a string of intimate encounters online Joe craves something different. When Loren Green enters his life he gets far more than he could of ever bargained for. What follows is a chaotic story of hungry passion lined with danger for Loren Green is not what she first appears.

    The book is a revealing look at how Washington works today – and how citizens successfully fought back.Written by the core Internet figures – video gamers, Tea Partiers, tech titans, lefty activists and ordinary Americans among them – who defeated a pair of special interest bills called SOPA (“Stop Online Piracy Act”) and PIPA (“Protect IP Act”), Hacking Politics provides the first detailed account of the glorious, grand chaos that led to the demise of that legislation and helped foster an Internet-based network of amateur activists.Included are more than thirty original contributions from across the political spectrum, featuring writing by Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz; Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School; novelist Cory Doctorow; Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA.); Jamie Laurie (of the alt-rock/hip-hop group The Flobots); Ron Paul; Mike Masnick, CEO and founder of Techdirt; Kim Dotcom, internet entrepreneur; Tiffiniy Cheng, co-founder and co-director of Fight for the Future; Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit; Nicole Powers of Suicide Girls; Josh Levy, Internet Campaign Director at Free Press, and many more.