Wired: Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet
[via:Joonas Mäkinen]
6 March 2010
16 February 2010
Iceland’s fight for press freedom
“New legislation that proposes turning the island into a protective ‘haven’ for media could allow investigative journalism to flourish”
[via:Wikileaks]
7 February 2010
5 February 2010
US public relations corporation to run for congress
“With more than a twinge of irony, Murray Hill Incorporated, a liberal public relations firm, recently announced that it planned to run in the Republican primary in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District.”
Campaign ad on Youtube.
[via:zzorn]
20 January 2010
28 December 2009
21 December 2009
Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs
These clowns really know how to create positive PR buzz.
[via:Mattis Hådén]
13 December 2009
Czech Govt Allows 5 Cannabis Plants For Personal Use From 2010
Does personal use include sharing with friends? :)
[via:IRC-URLs]
8 December 2009
“…clutches his classic books, ‘The Manufacture of Compost’ and ‘Hedgerows not Hegemony’”
[via:Styrelserummet]
5 December 2009
21 November 2009
Embarrassing Obama imitation performed by Finnish Social Democratic party leader Jutta Urpilainen.
☑ Random European party convention: check.
☑ Heavy accent: check.
→ Youtube is this way. It’s painful to watch, so take a shortcut to the best part.
[via:Iltalehti]
19 November 2009
Leaked news: UK Secretary of State to propose beyond fucked up changes to copyright law?
…including new, undemocratic, unparliamentary powers for the Secretary of State and prison sentences for file sharing.
[via:Waino]
17 November 2009
Extensive interview with Rupert Murdoch
From Sky News Australia, touches upon a lot of stuff from the Internet and the media to the global economy and its relation to the US and Australian immigration politics.
Regarding Murdoch’s views on Internet news: I’m the first to admit that my content consumption habits probably don’t reflect those of the general public. I don’t have any new ideas on how to support newspaper either. But I wouldn’t go back and manually read the New York Times Sunday mag. and be ready to pay small sums for it for it, I wouldn’t even know of it, if it wasn’t for content aggregators… Whether the content is free or not beyond the first paragraph, entirely avoiding to be indexed by Google doesn’t seem like a very good idea.
The Man is known for his fondness of giving consumers “choice.” So I simply don’t see the harm in readers or viewers coming in to content outlets from aggregators. I certainly have developed a sense of what I like, using aggregators or filters hasn’t affected my “loyalty” or trust towards content producers in any way other than me not necessarily skimming through all of a single publication in one sitting.
[via:Antti Vilpponen]