Tuesday Ten-fer: Twitter in Iran, software finds, secrecy and security and geolocation
- State Department Asks Twitter to Stay Up (and Other Notes on Digital Diplomacy)
- Iranians are using Twitter and Friendfeed to post news and photos of post-election protests. I wonder if a distributed Ushahidi set-up would also come in handy here.
- How To Communicate Securely in Repressive Environments
- Tactics and techniques for maintaining your physical safety while still being an activist and / or citizen journalist* [Via White African]
- Anonymous and Secure TorFox Browser Foils the Script Kiddies
- Windows only: A mash-up of Firefox and Tor, Torfox anonymizes your browser activity and protects against click-jacking.
- Geo: Soon to be Legit
- Opera is working on it. Firefox 3.5 has it, and Safari for iPhone 3.0 will have it too. Geolocation is coming to the browser.
- WordPress 2.8 released
- I haven’t upgraded yet, but I may blog about it once I do.
- Opera Unite
- Unite lets you host a server through your browser. [Via Molly] Related: Opera “Reinvents the Web” with Unite, Makes Every Computer a Server from ReadWriteWeb.
- Be the Difference: Mozilla Service Week!
- Mozilla asks users to use their tech fu skills for good this fall. Sign up to get help or give help
- 64 Ways Location Independent People Earn a Living
- Over five dozen ideas for how to earn a living from anywhere in the world.
- Indexing the Web — It— s Not Just Google— s Business
- Last week’s A List Apart offers guidance on when and why to use indexes with your database tables.
- CoRD
- An open-source alternative to Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection.
*I have a problem with that term because it implies that journalists aren’t and shouldn’t be politically engaged and civic minded. I suppose there is an ethical argument to be made about “objectivity,” but I think objectivity is an impossible notion and should be replaced by fairness.