Democracy, EU
EU elections: how to vote? What do the parties stand for?
A tool which helps you decide from Unlock Democracy www.votematch.co.uk
Open Rights Group survey: Do your MEP candidates care about digital rights? www.openrightsgroup.org
Open Rights Group: MEP survey results and contact info euelection.openrightsgroup.org
Democracy, UK
UK Hansard survey: how do you use the net to connect with your MP or Parliament? ow.ly
Freedom of Information
Full Text Book: Freedom of information: a comparative legal survey (2nd Edition) www.resourceshelf.com
Information design
Sidenote from @arc90 lab.arc90.com used to fully annotate Moby Dick www.powermobydick.com
OU podcast where Tony Hirst discusses WriteToReply: cands.open.ac.uk
Is Twitter dominated by men? www.guardian.co.uk
New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets http://bit.ly/1Gs40W
Copyright
OUT-LAW: Copyright treaty backing e-books for disabled readers survives US and EU resistance www.out-law.com
Harvard Business School working paper: File Sharing and Copyright http://bit.ly/KSHL9
Privacy, data collection
KnowPrivacy: The Current State of Web Privacy, Data Collection, and Information Sharing www.docuticker.com
Google Tracks Users Visting 92% of the Top 100 Websites www.theregister.co.uk
Google Squared is now live — try it out for yourself googleblog.blogspot.com
Music
“YouTube holds out after UK body drops music streaming fees” arstechnica.com
Guardian: How Last.fm is thinking outside the jewel case http://bit.ly/183EEm
Digital Britain
FT: Media chiefs urge tougher action on internet piracy. ISPs to enforce traxfer.ft.com