Democracy

China’s Cyberposse

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The short video made its way around China’s Web in early 2006, passed on through file sharing and recommended in chat rooms. It opens with a middle-aged Asian woman dressed in a leopard-print blouse, knee-length black skirt, stockings and silver stilettos standing next to a riverbank. She smiles, holding [...]

Tags: chinese internet, detective work, human flesh, human flesh search engine, internet citizens, internet forums, netizen
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Wikileaks and Iceland MPs propose ‘journalism haven’

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Wikileaks has provoked the dream of Iceland becoming a haven for whistle-blowing
Iceland could become a “journalism haven” if a proposal put forward by some Icelandic MPs aided by whistle-blowing website Wikileaks succeeds.
The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), calls on the country’s government to adopt laws protecting journalists and [...]

Tags: free speech, investigative journalism, investigative journalists, journalist, julian assange, start-ups
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Murray Hill Incorporated is Running for Congress

IMHO – lol!

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The Public Domain Manifesto

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Preamble
“Le livre, comme livre, appartient à l’auteur, mais comme pensée, il appartient—le mot n’est pas trop vaste—au genre humain. Toutes les intelligences y ont droit. Si l’un des deux droits, le droit de l’écrivain et le droit de l’esprit humain, devait être sacrifié, ce serait, certes, le droit de [...]

Tags: copyright protection, Democracy, free speech, james boyle, public domain, victor hugo
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More (Steve) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

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Good Advice . . . not just if you are American
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
The most striking feature of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency was the amazing, young, Internet-enabled, grass-roots movement he mobilized to get elected. The most striking feature of Obama’s presidency a year later is how thoroughly that movement has disappeared.
In [...]

Tags: barack obama, economic stimulus, grass roots movement, innovation and entrepreneurship, moon shot, steve jobs, thomas l friedman
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