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Cyberculture roundup: CISPA threat continues, Stop Cyber Spying Week, Google Drive,

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CISPA Authors Confident Bill Will Pass Despite Rising Opposition from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick   Google’s Sergey Brin: China, SOPA, Facebook Threaten the ‘Open Web’ from Wired Top Stories by Tim Carmody Google’s search engine was created when most of the web’s information was open and available to anyone willing to capture it. In today’s … Read more

TorrentFreak’s piece on VPN services and how treat anonymity…and a cyberculture roundup…

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Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously? from TorrentFreak by enigmax As detailed in yesterday?s article, if a VPN provider carries logs of their users? activities the chances of them not being able to live up to their claim of offering an anonymous service begins to decrease rapidly. There are dozens of VPN providers, many … Read more

digital polemics: Egypt’s Wael at the IMF meeting, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange vs NY Timesat Logan Symposium. A cyberculture roundup

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  Wael the Plumber: Egypt’s Google revolutionary mixes it up at the IMF from FP Passport by Joshua Keating Along with cherry blossoms, spring means IMF annual meetings here in Washington along with some always intriguing panel discussions. The most highly anticipated talk at this year’s confab was this morning’s roundtable on “Youth, Jobs, and … Read more

a Journalism roundup: The wave of non-profit locally-focused news organizations and more…

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  Diaspora and future social networks: decentralized, open-sourced? from Editors Weblog – all postings by Jean Yves Chainon It has been about a year now since Diaspora and its four founders made ripples through the blogosphere and mainstream media, including in this New York Times article, following the $200,000 plus donations that the budding alternative … Read more

“EFF’s Guide to Protecting Electronic Devices and Data at the U.S. Border

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EFF’s Guide to Protecting Electronic Devices and Data at the U.S. Border from EFF.org Updates by marcia Amid recent reports that security researchers have experienced difficulties at the United States border after traveling abroad, we realized that it’s been awhile since we last discussed how to safeguard electronic devices and digital information during border searches. … Read more

Anthro roundup: Video games as applied anthropology/ Hidden treasures in open anthropology repositories…

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Video games as applied anthropology from ICCI Home Pursuing its ambitious development, the ICCI blog has decided now to open a “video games” section. And today, we are discussing the release of Civilization V, the last sequel of one of the most famous series in the history of video games. New overview: Discover hidden treasures … Read more

Indian government is after Arundhati Roy

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Novelist Arundhati Roy could be charged with sedition from FP Passport by Joshua Keating The Indian Home Ministry has given Delhi police the go-ahead to arrest bestselling novelist andactivist Arundhati Roy on charges of sedition. The charges relate to a recent event at which Roy appeared with Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelan. Roy … Read more

PEW Featured Report: Americans and their gadgets

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PEW Featured Report: Americans and their gadgets In recent years the digital world has expanded far beyond the desktop, and consumers can now choose from an array of devices capable of satisfying their need for “anytime, anywhere” access to news, information, friends and entertainment: Facebook And Zynga Sued Over Privacy from All Facebook by Caitlin … Read more

Online Tools for my Students. The 2nd Edition. Part I

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Well, it was to update my tools list as the new semester starts:) This is the essential part. The second part will include many untested tools I came upon during my never ending surfing sessions… Submitted by: wenz Posted at: 2010-07-08 09:48:15 See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/28663 *********************************************************************************** Online Tools for my Students. The … Read more

“Neal Stephenson’s Novel Experiment”

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Neal Stephenson’s Novel Experiment from Shareable – Sharing by design by Paul M. Davis A few weeks back, I wrote about authors Laird Harrison and Jesus Angel Garcia, who are leveraging the social web to distribute excerpts of their novels in unusual ways. Now comes word that Neal Stephenson, with his new publishing startup Subutai, … Read more

Such a frustrating day…A few words on manners and Open source in academy (!)

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I was accused of Piracy today by a quite well-known scholar on web censorship issues.  Not publicly though. In a previous post I gave a link to his book whose link I found through my friendfeed news flow. I admit it was my mistake to give link to a piratedly submitted copy of the book. … Read more

the Open Video Alliance campaign on Wikipedia starts

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the Open Video Alliance states that the Alliance launches an important project:” a mass campaign to bring video to Wikipedia. Moving images can communicate ideas in ways that text can?t. We think this is the next step in Wikipedia?s evolution.” In the mean time, check out Kaltura that “allows publishers of all sizes to easily, … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: “10 Types Of People Who Try To Quit Facebook? And Fail

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Facebook sends more traffic to broadcast sites than to newspaper sites

from Editors Weblog – all postings by Maria Conde

10 Types Of People Who Try To Quit Facebook? And Fail

from All Facebook by Neil Vidyarthi

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Italy vs. Google

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Wired.com: Does Italy?s Google Conviction Portend More Censorship?

from CyberLaw Blog

Google Hit With Antitrust Investigation in Europe

from Mashable! by Adam Ostrow

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Global Voices at 5. Congratulations!

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Five Years of Global Voices: Where they are now

from Global Voices Online by David Sasaki

The following was originally published at http://www.el-oso.net and is part of a series of posts commemorating Global Voices’ fifth anniversary and supporting of Global Voices’ 2009-10 online fundraising campaign. If you would like to support our work, please visit our Donate page. Thank you!

gv_bdayFive years ago I boarded a flight from San Diego to Boston to attend the 2004 Internet & Society conference at the Berkman Center. This was just a month after George Bush won the 2004 election and so there was an element of group therapy to many of the panel discussions. 2004 was the year when, according to Wired Magazine, the Internet invented Howard Dean. Dean’s campaign was supposed to be the harbinger of a new era of net politics where the progressive grassroots took advantage of online tools like blogs and Meetup.com (this was before YouTube even existed) to bring about more enlightened, representative governance. Instead, according to the ever-snarky Register, ?organized religion, not net religion, won it for Bush.?

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