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Unescos World Press Freedom Day 2013 is promoting the idea that people need to be able to use social media for freedom of expression, whether its on Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Vkontakte, Tencent, Identi.ca, or blogs. Many people don’t know that they should be free and safe to blog, to upload pictures, to watch online video., [...]
The most common justification given for copyright law is that it helps creators make a living. Yet instead of helping indie musician Edwyn Collins, a corporation with absolutely no claim to Edwyns work was able to step in and prevented him from distributing his own work online through the employment of spurious copyright allegations. I [...]
My primary goal at present is to complete the first draft of The Girl In The Blue Flame Cafe, but Ive been pulled off on a few side trips. There are two time sensitive articles I must write for Whoa!Canada in the very near future, and a couple of things happening on the personal front [...]
[This was supposed to be a review, but what's between the covers isn't as interesting as the story around the books.] Word of mouth brought my attention to the lively Castle tv series. The shows premise pairs fictional Pulitzer Prize winning mystery writer Richard Rick Castle with the tough fictional NYC detective Kate Beckett. Like [...]
This is the first anniversary of the day the Internet went dark. All kinds of big powerful important websites went dark to protest two dreadful bits of American legislation, SOPA and PIPA. Amazingly, it worked, and the laws were withdrawn. It wasnt just American websites. The Internet doesnt stop at any border, so web sites [...]
No one should ever go to jail over copyright law. It is inconceivable to me that anyone should ever die over it. Now someone has. Aaron Swartz killed himself on Friday. He was 26. A legend in the tech community, probably a dotcom millionaire. He could have lounged around poolside sipping designer martinis for the [...]
I love J.R.R. Tolkiens book Lord of the Rings books. I thought Peter Jackson cut out exactly what he should have to make the movies, although perhaps a bit too much of the Eowyn bits. If anything, I think he improved on the trilogy. I didnt read the Hobbit until after I had already read [...]
In Brazil the Redemption through Reading program has been created with the intention that prisoners will not only improve their literacy skills but so that “a person can leave prison more enlightened and with an enlarged vision of the world”. — Alex Hundert Its bad enough that there is no longer any funding for librarians [...]
I dont use Facebook Apps because they all require ridiculous permissions. I am not willing to allow anyone else to speak for me, so Im certainly not likely to allow some software run by total strangers to post in my name. Ever. Even if I was willing to give permission for myself, I am certainly [...]
