The week in links
Education resources, open access, copyright, bad research and lobbying, life without newspapers- insight from the1940s, Twitter hype vs the numbers, browser innovation, Digital Britain, life without broadband, French anti-filesharing law overturned.
Education, Open Access
UK still leads in Open Access http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/…
JISC National e-books project brings free learning to further education: http://tinyurl.com/n8tpev
OERCommons: Great news: Both Google and Yahoo image search lets you restrict to Creative Commons licenses.
Minutes from the first Meeting for the working group on open data in science Open Knowledge… http://ff.im/3Tixs
Copyright
Strategic Content Alliance new report on orphan works http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/
Copyright in the 2st C UK IPO debate – videos, transcripts http://tinyurl.com/r7dg3a
Creative Commons
Creative Commons, We Have a Problem – http://bit.ly/1a1SOG a survey shows very few people know what it is
NESTA Encouraging collaboration in science innovation: John Wilbanks, VP Science at Creative Commons: http://bit.ly/7Fm5J
Music, research, lobbying, policy
Home taping didn’t kill music http://tinyurl.com/n4hneb
Charles Arthur: Are downloads really killing the music industry? Or is it something else? http://bit.ly/7JBcP
Unions fear job losses, blame downloading http://bit.ly/1a7hYm
Journalism
When A.J. Liebling imagined life without newspapers http://tr.im/nEfv
Twitter research
More than 1/3 of Twitter users have not posted a single tweet, and almost 80 percent of the users have less than 10 tweets http://tr.im/nEQo
Mashable: Twitter’s Phenomenal Growth Suddenly Stops http://tr.im/nUc9
Browser news
Google Chrome for Mac and Linux has Arrived: But Don’t Download it Yet http://bit.ly/4lJHOd developers only
Opera 10 beta, design by John Hicks, tabs done right, web apps: review http://tr.im/nEuc
Digital Britain
New blog: all the news about Digital Britain final report and Unconference event(s) http://tr.im/nDbt #dbuc09#digitalbritain
Details of Digital Britain report release: Ben Bradshaw will announce to Parliament at approx 15.30, 16 June.
Digital Britain final report to be published as a commentable document. Also forums and social media features http://bit.ly/WqjdI
DPI, Phorm, net neutrality
NoDPI meets the Home Office http://twurl.nl/nhebfe <Deep Packet Inspection monitors your internet use >
Petition the Prime Minister against private companies profiling users’ internet stream from within ISPs http://tr.im/oiw7
Universal access
OFCOM advisory Consumer Panel: broadband essential for everyone http://tr.im/nz8D
Europe
French anti-filesharing law overturned http://bit.ly/1QKim