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 May: find your MEP www.writetothem.com
IPtegrity: Telecoms Package Internet sell-out now agreed www.iptegrity.com disappearing Amendment 138. Text of Trautman/Harbour deal.
Reuters: EU reaches draft deal over Telecoms Package – www.reuters.com
IPtegrity: New EU Council threat to Internet users rights www.iptegrity.com
Telecoms Package: Council of EU imposing Net Discrimination in Europe www.laquadrature.net
EU set to vote to remove neutrality from the net, give ISPs and govts the power to arbitrarily block site www.boingboing.net
Publishing
Kindle readers are older = newspaper readers via Niemanlab www.niemanlab.org
“Justice Dept. Opens Antitrust Inquiry Into Google Books Deal” www.nytimes.com
Google Deadline Delayed Four Months as Steinbeck Motion Granted www.resourceshelf.com
Consolidation in the EBook Market: Amazon Acquires Stanza feedproxy.google.com
User interface
TinyRead firefox addon improves reading on the web addons.mozilla.org
TinyRead browser bookmarklet also improves reading web pages on mobiles www.tidyread.com
Nielson study : 60% of new Twitter users fail to tweet again after a month blog.nielsen.com
Education
www.jisc.ac.uk – JISC podcast on aims and background to JISC/Academy Open Educational Resources Pilot Programme
Huge, categorised list of opencourseware – universitiesandcolleges.org something for everyone
The Independent: UK Universities student satisfaction ratings www.independent.co.uk
Connected University report www.nesta.org.uk
Journalism 2.0
Journalism 2.0: Don’t Throw Out the Baby www.readwriteweb.com