a Cyberculture roundup: US copyright enemies list, Facebook ‘Organ Donor’, Digital Activism, CISPA, the Pirate Bay

US copyright enemies list is worst ever, including countries whose crime is poverty from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Michael Geist sez, The U.S. Trade Representative released its annual Special 301 Report [an annual enemies list of countries judged not to be doing enough to police US copyrights] yesterday, unsurprisingly including Canada on the Priority … Read more

for the record, LulzSec frontman Sabu was probably an informant.. more on LulzSec crackdown and a cyberculture roundup…

LulzSec frontman Sabu was FBI informant, fed Stratfor docs to Wikileaks from an FBI-owned computer by Xeni Jardin The Guardian has more on the big hacking news which Fox News broke yesterday (as noted in a post by Rob). “Sabu,” the trash-talking, self-appointed leader of LulzSec, has been working for the FBI for the last … Read more

Deniz Ergürel: Bilgilerinizi bulutlarda depolayın

Bilgilerinizi bulutlarda depolayın   Cloud computing logical diagram Son yılların en sevilen animasyon filmlerinden Buz Devri?nin ilk sahnesini sanırım hatırlamayan yoktur: Scrat adlı sevimli sincap, elindeki meşe palamudunu saklamak için bir yer arar, tam gömecekken yanlış yer tercihi nedeniyle büyük bir çığa sebep olur. Scrat?in meşe palamudunu saklamak istediği yer, büyük bir buz kütlesinin tam ortasıdır. … Read more

The French Way: “Why You Can?t Say ?Twitter? Or ?Facebook? On French TV” and a massive cyberculture roundup…

Why You Can?t Say ?Twitter? Or ?Facebook? On French TV by Christina Warren Television and radio personalities in France can no longer say ?Twitter? or ?Facebook? on the air unless it?s in a news story about those specific companies, according to a decree from the French broadcasting authority CSA. The Facebook Effect on Relationships [INFOGRAPHIC] … Read more

Boing Boing’s Charitable Giving Guide, E-Book Buyer’s Guide to E-Book Privacy etc…

Boing Boing Charitable Giving Guide, the 2010 edition from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Boing Boing’s charitable giving guide has become a seasonal tradition of ours, listing the charities we personally support and want to give more attention to. As in previous years, we invite you to add your own favorite charities in the comments section. … Read more

“Cohen, Fanning, Johansen and Frankel: Four horsemen of the information apocalypse

Bram Cohen Justin Frankel Jon Lech Johansen Shawn Fanning Four horsemen of the information apocalypse: Cohen, Fanning, Johansen and Frankel from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Time magazine’s Lev Grossman’s got a great profile of four authors of notorious software tools that formed the nexus of the last 12 years of copyright cold-wars: Bram Cohen … Read more