Category Archives: Links

Policy Obama: 100 days. Net neutrality commitment and the broadband stimulus www.savetheinternet.com UK: comment on the Home Office’s ‘Protecting the public’ communications consultation: writetoreply.org Law “Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation” techdirt.com Swedish ISPs Obstruct New Anti-Piracy Legislation torrentfreak.com by not storing user data EU Telecoms Package EU telecoms vote 5th […]

Digital Britain Now that’s what I call social networking blog.openwetware.org Cameron Neylon on #digitalbritain phenomenon and what it means The #digitalbritain unconference website is now live: digitalbritainunconference.wordpress.com Full Digital Britain Summit proceedings uploaded digitalbritainforum.org.uk video & transcripts. Discussion of content, copyright, new business models is this ‘poetry’ session digitalbritainforum.org.uk Google News Google news timeline googlenewsblog.blogspot.com […]

Press complaint: Nick Davies tells MPs of smear threat from newspaper www.guardian.co.uk US forces used almost 20,000 rounds of “non-lethal” ammo/CS gas on Iraqis in 2007-2008 secure.wikileaks.org The Weapons That Kill Civilians — Deaths of Children and Noncombatants in Iraq, 2003–.. www.docuticker.com Oxford University Press Releases Lessons from the Identity Trail Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a […]

Why the Pirate Bay verdict is GOOD for piracy – neteffect.foreignpolicy.com analysis from Evgeny Morozov British Library Google generation research download www.bl.uk Google bringing pay-per-view to YouTube news.cnet.com Goverment announces RIPA review in wake of EU threat feedproxy.google.com Open Knowledge Foundation wiki wiki.okfn.org OKcon 09 was good Papers from the 5th Communia workshop communia-project.eu #communia Public […]

British Library: 7,000 music, spoken word and environmental tracks for free listening. 9,000 more for UK Universities http://sounds.bl.uk/ Public Knowledge explains the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). What it is and why it matters.http://tr.im/iPWT FT: Internet privacy: As Google launches ‘interest-based’ ads, consumers and regulators are increas.. summary of recent privacy and behavioural advertising issues http://tinyurl.com/cpkshf […]

Nick Carr article on Google and newspapers: http://tinyurl.com/d6e29d Right again. Science Commons argue for public domain. A public benefit over proposed Open Database license http://tr.im/iC5e Liking Nambu, Mac social messaging client. 3 pane interface difficult to beat. Better text legibility than others http://tr.im/iC4J DiggBar blocking for WordPress, Greasemonkey, EE. John Gruber http://tr.im/iB6U Why? http://tr.im/iB6A Open […]

OUT-LAW: French pass ‘three strikes’ file-sharing law http://tinyurl.com/cv8bel Boldrin & Levine: Against Intellectual Monopoly. The economic case against IP protection. Read the book online http://bit.ly/3aja   out-law radio interview with economists who argue IP law inhibits innovation and growth http://bit.ly/JKQc Ewan McIntosh 4IP keynote#jisc09 http://bit.ly/lCkJD open data, open access, participation

Featured Artists Coalition – ‘extend copyright, if rights revert to artists after 50 years’ via out-law http://bit.ly/2hNEhy  Traffic stats from Stockholm via torrentfreakhttp://bit.ly/6k1w9 Torrentfreak on first day of new Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive anti-piracy lawhttp://bit.ly/c3jja  RT @guardiantech: Google and Bebo consider opting out of Phorm http://bit.ly/hPpOW Peter Suber, SPARC: 25 Myths About Open Access –http://bit.ly/1997Vb via […]

David Bollier Viral Spiral: readable account of the struggle for the soul of the internet. Open Source, Creative Commons, Open Access education, public domain http://viralspiral.cc/   RT @berkmancenter: Doc Searls on VRM . This week’s Radio Berkman podcast with David Weinberger: http://tr.im/i2Qq#vrmhub   Dan Bricklin: Designing IT in the age of Obama.http://bit.ly/M8N1a   RT @berkmancenter: The Future of Computational Science, […]

RT @CopyrightLaw “European Parliament Rejects Three Strikes and You’re Out Approach” http://tinyurl.com/2o7gp3  RT @CopyrightLaw EFF: “Observations from the Three-Strikes Rumor Storm” http://tinyurl.com/ddro8p  Digital Britain team publishes responseshttp://bitly.com/ECbno  Newspapers: Society of Editors letter to Culture Secretary. Local media, Google revenue, training subsidy http://bit.ly/vvaX  RT @guardiantech: Last.fm puts pay wall around streams; except in US, UK, Germany http://bit.ly/11MjOi  RT @psychemedia: so are you […]