Cloud raises diplomatic issues, top Clinton aide says - Nextgov
Wow. Read it and weep. Tim O'Reilly is promoting this article. I haven't read anything quite so scarily propagandist since Caberet. What do I mean? (and who is this 'state'?)
Courtesy of One Economy Corporation "If e-mail lives in the cloud, who owns that information?" says State Department's Alec Ross.
Cloud computing is a double-edged sword in the fight for Internet freedom, a top State Department official said on Wednesday."
"During a major policy speech in January, Clinton announced that Internet freedom would become a strategic priority for the United States in 2010. In March, State revived the Global Internet Freedom Task Force, a Bush administration initiative that worked to harmonize policies departmentwide on protecting free speech. The renamed NetFreedom Task Force met on March 4, when 19 telecommunications and information technology companies discussed the corporate sector's role in facilitating Internet freedom."
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Diigo 05/05/2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Diigo 05/01/2010
Open Standards vs Cross Platform - it's starting to sound like politics. Confusing. Misleading. Impractical. Constrained.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Diigo 04/26/2010
Hitler gets reprieve from YouTube
LOL. A parody downfall video of the downfall of downfall. Electronic Frontier Foundation are the authors of this piece, suggesting that maybe Apple's approach to DRM is... ironically more modern.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Diigo 04/24/2010
PJF's Pages - Journal - Facebook privacy - Instant personalisation and connections
PJ Fenwick gives the lowdown on facebook's personalisation and what you are sharing with whom. If anyone ever wondered where the money was in the 'free' internet, then follow the moves that facebook and google are making to market all of the personal info that you so lovingly and willingly provide to your 'friends'.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Diigo 04/22/2010
Global 'Human Rights' Network Initiative founded or funded? by ICT companies increasingly at risk of government intervention. Hmm.
So far Microsoft, Yahoo and Google are on the board. It's troublingly necessary to include ICT businesses in this issue, however their role in the interest group makes for a confusing mix of human rights and network rights. Not always the same thing.YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Not only was Tudehope sacked for publishing satire videos of Liberal Party faction fights but was outed as ghosting Turnbull's twitter. What a job! Interesting to see how Australia's political parties use online media.
YouTube - Hitler Finds Out About iSnack 2.0
The impending downfall of the this satire video (see previous bookmark) inspired me to share it. It's vegemite. It's good.
Satirists bunker down after Downfall clips pulled - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Constantin films invokes copyright infringement and corporate citizenship to try to pull thousands of Downfall parody videos off the internet. As they admit, it's an impossible task which begs the question of why do it at all!
My favorite was/is the Vegemite iSnack 2.0 clip - which I'm bookmarking for everyone right now. And while I never expected to find the Liberal Party at all interesting, I didn't realise that heads had fallen over a Downfall vid satirising faction fighting, which is pertinent after yesterday's tutorial discussions!
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Diigo 04/21/2010
The increasing use of 'free' webmail services, and indeed full office suites, from online providers by business and governments means an increasing amount of funding for encryption and ad free internets.
This potentially leads to a new digital divide. The corporate or private internet of the wealthy, and the hyper surveilled commercial internet of the many.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Diigo 04/15/2010
What Larry Strickling Meant to Say (and Should have Said) | Center for Democracy & Technology
This article cogently describes the current US govt approach to policy and call for an Internet Policy 3.0. Also clarifies points and describes the issues in regulation and governance that are raised in response.
As per DeNardis, the first question is who is the board, then what are their interests, how are they funded, who do they represent, by what process are decisions made and implemented, are objections public etc.
If, as the press release suggests, this is the first of many more simple and stringent security and safety features, then what are they and who decides?
"The Facebook Safety Advisory Board comprises five leading Internet safety organizations from North America and Europe that serve in a consultative capacity to the company on issues related to online safety. The organizations on the board are Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, WiredSafety, Childnet International and The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI). "