Digital Britain
Ofcom launches Consortium for Digital Participation
70% oppose internet ban for filesharers, poll shows. Guardian
Illegal downloads 150x more profitable than legal sales Torrent Freak
More than 10 million adults in the UK have never used the Internet. 4 million of them are the most socially disadvantaged. Race Online 2012
Education
Teach us a Lesson! competition for informal adult learning directory BECTA competition. £25k total
Britain’s degree blackspots – the best and worst educated places revealed Data Blog
EU Telecoms Package
Amendment 138: Parliament bows to pressure over telecoms package Euractiv
Alternatively …
EU Parliament drew back from file-sharer demands over legal uncertainty Out-law
Open Science
Webcast from the Oxford Social Media conference 09: making science public. Ben Goldacre, Maxine Clarke, Cameron Neylon
Postcodes, meet newspaper
Talis Nodalities: Postcode Paper: What you can do with the right data.
Social Media
1-in-5 Internet users now share updates: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook. From Pew Internet
Twitter
Hootsuite: Ow.ly tracking is bad for sharing links. Lots of government users cannot resist tracking.