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French Parliament Say Non to Sarkozy-style "Three Strikes" Internet rule - Boing Boing
The anti-three strikes amendment, condemning policies that would throw citizens off the Net, has cleared the European Parliament!
La Quadrature du Net
Squaring the net was launched by concerned citizens to alert on government projects that threaten civil liberties and economic and social development, and make alternative proposals.
European Parliament to Sarkozy: No "Three Strikes" Here | Electronic Frontier Foundation
hundreds of MEPs supported language which declared termination of Internet access to be in conflict with "civil liberties and human rights and with the principles of proportionality, effectiveness and dissuasiveness
Discovering the Internet's "black holes" - Boing Boing
The Hubble Internet audit is a project to discover "black holes in the Internet" where traffic won't route
New Zealand's DMCA is as good as it could be -- I was wrong! - Boing Boing
probably the best anti-circumvention implementation anywhere in the world with a complete exclusion of access controls (ie. region coding), a positive right to circumvent for permitted acts, and even a system to allow 'qualified persons' to circumvent on
Mafia boss: seven rules for running a successful business - Boing Boing
After a decade of unspeakable violence under the previous leader, Totò Riina, Provenzano changed the culture of Cosa Nostra by instructing his men in the art of negotiation and the importance of dialogue.
Viewfinder: tool for "Flickrizing" Google Earth - Boing Boing
The Viewfinder tool not only enables photos to be placed in the right geolocation on a 3D model like Google Earth, but "poses" them at the correct angle. The video demo is fantastic.
Chance to kill software patents opens - Boing Boing
With the boundary to what can be patented effectively destroyed by previous Federal Circuit rulings, massive-scale liability has been created throughout the US economy.
Flickr adds video-sharing - Boing Boing
Flickr finally has a feature that allows you to upload, tag and flag short videos alongside of your photos.
Pirate's Dilemma author's speech: "To get rich off pirates, copy them" - Boing Boing
"The best way to profit from pirates is to copy them."
Pirate's Dilemma slideshow video -- pirates will save the world - Boing Boing
a video of a cut down version of my stump speech on my new book The Pirate's Dilemma
Media giants start whisper campaign to kill Fair Use - Boing Boing
he outs a global anti-Fair-Use "whisper campaign" orchestrated by the big entertainment companies
Bioethics and cognitive liberty - Boing Boing
Wired's Clive Thompson's latest column probes the new bioethical conundra of "cognitive liberty" -- the freedom not to have our brains scanned.
Penguicon 6: free software and science fiction con near Detroit with Vernor Vinge - Boing Boing
Penguicon 6, the Detroit-area science fiction and free/open source software convention, is coming up soon!
For Love of Water: infuriating and incredible documentary about world's water-crisis - Boing Boing
I've just watched Irena Salina's incredible, infuriating documentary FLOW: For Love of Water, a film about the often-invisible and underreported global water crisis.
.CSV » group think
CI Foo Camp, organized by Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian and held on the Google campus, brought together 60 or so researchers all loosely connected to the idea of “collective intelligence” for a wide-ranging discussion with no set schedule. For
Far Eastern Economic Review | Asia’s Fight for Web Rights
These are all positive steps from Yahoo, but getting to this point has been a painful journey. The company had to be called on the carpet twice by the U.S. Congress, denounced by human-rights groups and condemned by journalists around the world in support
University prof says students can't sell notes from his classes because it violates his copyright - Boing Boing
University prof says students can't sell notes from his classes because it violates his copyright
Boston judge: making files available to download isn't piracy - Boing Boing
a federal court in Boston in a 52-page ruling concludes that 'merely exposing music files to the internet is not copyright infringement
Ted Turner: global warming could lead to cannibalism - Boing Boing
"Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals," said Turner, 69. "Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state — like Somalia or Sudan — and living conditions will be intolerable."
How an ISP music-license should work - Boing Boing
the controversy surrounding the expected Warner Music proposal to allow ISPs to pay a license fee in exchange for the unlimited right of their customers to download music
Second Skin - Home
takes an intimate look at computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by the emerging genre of Massively Multiplayer Online games
VCs sitting on giant piles of money that Internet startups don't need - Boing Boing
Internet startups are so cheap to do these days that venture capitalists can't find enough companies to take their money
Jeff Jarvis v Michael Tomasky | Comment is free
Should the internet's new breed of 'citizen journalists' have the responsibilities of journalists or the rights of citizens?
Mobile Advocacy Do's and Don'ts |
Mobile advocacy efforts are just beginning around the world. What are we learning from these emergent campaigns what works and what does not in using mobile phones to advance a cause or an issue?
mbauwens' bookmarks tagged with "P2P-Languages" on del.icio.us
useful for translation services and stuff
Main Page - SidWiki
free software for activists in greece?
State of the nation in social media « The Equity Kicker
# 57% of internet users are now part of a social network # There are now 184M bloggers worldwide # 72% of “active Internet users” (or 346M worldwide) regularly read blogs (up 20% in two years), with 22% reading a blog every day
Hypervideo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
hyperlinked video, is a displayed video stream that contains embedded, user clickable anchors,[1] allowing navigation between video and other hypermedia elements. Hypervideo is thus analogous to hypertext
Hacker (free and open source software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hackers follow a spirit of creative playfulness and anti-authoritarianism, and sometimes use this term to refer to people applying the same attitude to other fields.
Integral Visioning - Michel Bauwens: Foundation For Peer To Peer Alternatives Newsletter Issue 126
what is the P2P movement up against, what is its 'enemy'.

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Posted: April 27th, 2008, 10:00pm PDT