Journalling Ideas For Foreign Language Learners

As a foreign language learner, you're probably constantly on the lookout for effective ways to accelerate the language learning process and reach the desired level of the linguistic knowledge as soon as possible. Keeping a journal in your target language can help you achieve your linguistic goal(s) faster and with less effort.

Toolbox and resources:

• Tools to Turn Twitter Into a Diary
• Best Free Education Sites On The Web
• 3 Innovative Ways To Learn Or Improve A Foreign Language
• Language Express
• BBC Languages

If you are into learning languages, here are five types of linguistic journals you can start playing with today:

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What is Cloud Telephony

The  "cloud" is a broad term that covers almost any service that is hosted online. The beauty of the cloud is that you can access the information and services that are hosted on cloud servers from anywhere as long as you have a modern device with an Internet connection.

Cloud telephony takes traditional telephone services and moves them online. Instead of needing an expensive PBX system in your office to handle your telephony needs, you use Voice over IP technology to manage your telephone calls.

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The Evolution of Bitcoin

Bitcoin is slowly changing the way that consumers and companies do business with one another. As it gains popularity and acceptance on a global scale it is important to learn more about what Bitcoin is and how it is impacting the economy. Bitcoin is a digital currency that is decentralized and exists on a peer-to-peer computer network

Bitcoins can either be purchased using “real” money like dollars or generated through a mining process where computers in the network solve difficult mathematical problems that verify transactions being made.

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The Offline Beginnings of Online Hacking

Ever wondered how the history of hacking culture started? Needless to say, the ethos that ‘nothing should be off limits’ has been around for years, so understanding the progression is certainly an interesting topic.

Roof and tunnel hacking in 1957 was a time for simply exploring off-limit areas on the MIT campus, but this was just the start. Advancements in technology can only mean one thing: there are more systems to hack! In 1971, early forms of ‘spoofing’ was discovered when Joe Engressia whistled down a phone in a very specific tone and was granted free long distance calls. Nice find, eh?

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The Death of Internet Freedom in The West

Digital surveillance, content filtering and the blocking of websites deemed "dangerous" by the government are all things that are more common than you might think. The Internet is supposed to be an open network, where anyone can post and access anything they wish.

It is well known that internet censorship takes place in countries with restrictive governments, such as North Korea and Cuba, but Internet freedoms are dying in other parts of the world too, as this eye-opening infographic shows:

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