Declaration of Internet Freedom
by Cory Doctorow
I’ve signed the Declaration of Internet Freedom, a short, to-to-point manifesto for a free and open Internet. It’s attracted some very august signatories, including Amnesty International, Hackers and Founders, Global Voices, Mozilla, the NY Tech Meetup, Personal Democracy, Fight for the Future, Yochai Benkler, danah boyd, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Aaron Swartz and Jonathan Zittrain. You can sign it too, and talk about it here or on Reddit.
Top 10 Takedowns in Google’s Copyright Transparency Report
from EFF.org Updates by Kurt Opsahl and Parker Higgins
When Google released its new Copyright Transparency Report on takedown requests of its Search results, we got new insights into the massive number of complaints the search giant receives. We also saw that there are many requests that don’t seem to meet the standard of a “good faith belief” of infringement. Google said in the report that it refuses to comply with requests that are obviously inaccurate or intentionally abusive, which accounts for about 3% of the total. While Google deserves to be commended for that example of good citizenship, they can’t catch everything.
Revisiting Techno-Euphoria: Digital Natives and Embodied Technologies
from DML Central by jbrazil
?Declaration of Internet Freedom? Calls for Free and Open Internet
by Alex Fitzpatrick
@Sweden Welcomes @Netherlanders to Twitter
from Mashable! by Amanda Pittman
Where Anonymous actions come from
from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
Twitter: We Comply with 63% of Government Requests
by Chris Taylor
Why You Should Embrace Twitter Lurkers
by Ted Rubin
6 Steps You Should Take to Actually Start Using Google+
from social media vb by Daniel Levine
Five Things More Important than Facebook Page Engagement
from social media vb by Jim Belosic
Engaging with fans through Facebook can be extremely rewarding for a business. However, it?s important to understand that engagement is not won solely through interesting photos and asking a weekly scheduled question?it?s won through an active strategy and through focusing on the things that are more important.
Google: We provided $80bn of US economic activity with our search and advertising tools in 2011
from The Next Web by Paul Sawers
Women Explain Why Google+ Is All Dudes
from Wired Top Stories by Ryan Tate
Women tell Google its social network is too clunky and nerdy.
Smartphones Are Not For Calls, So It Seems
from Daily Bits by noemi
Google hired then fired this guy for breaking its NDA
from The Next Web by Drew Olanoff
6 Ways Google Can Secure its Social Future
by David Clarke
TOR project uncovers flaw in mass-surveillance appliance
by Cory Doctorow
Twitter?s compliance with copyright takedown notices and government requests for user info, by the numbers
from The Next Web by Matthew Panzarino
Why we still fight about music and copyright on the Internet
by Cory Doctorow
My latest Locus colum, “Music: The Internet?s Original Sin,” asks why music copyright is such a hot potato on the Internet, even in the post-DRM age, when most tunes are $0.99 on Amazon in MP3. The short answer: music’s ancient compact is not entirely compatible with contemporary commerce, and the industry has tried to “fix” this by just telling us that everything we know about the legitimate way to enjoy, produce and share music is wrong.
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