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How Payola Works Today... Or Why You Only Hear Major Label Songs On The Radio - http://bit.ly/rtSqMu another reason they hate the Net

3 Million Texts for Free - http://bit.ly/nSmbxq "bringing over 1,000 new books online every day." totally fab #ebooks

Breakfast at Arduino - http://bit.ly/qSwyep four major announcements, making #arduino even more wonderful #openhardware

US Rep: #Copyright has actually been an "impediment" to rightsholders - http://bit.ly/pSuDb4 a glimmer of hope, here?

A Huge Oil Palm Plantation Puts African Rainforest at Risk - http://bit.ly/oaCPj3 #palmoil's blight spreads further

An open letter to J.R. Salamanca - http://bit.ly/oNIYAy addressing an orphan work's author...

The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice - http://bit.ly/rkiPfp cc-by-nc; can be read online

Saturn: New photos from Cassini’s recent Enceladus flyby - http://bit.ly/mOJgly wow #space

Defra Approval of UK #GM Wheat Trial a Mistake - http://bit.ly/qLGW2w this seems a very odd move

What the 2001 #Doha Declaration Changed - http://bit.ly/r3vm1c & how the West is trying to undermine affordable medicines for the poor

Now it's illegal to write down prices in Tesco supermarket - http://bit.ly/qbc7Ux so crowdsource remembered prices online (v @rlancefield)

The special trick that helps identify dodgy #stats - http://bit.ly/ruYZq6 I've always found Benford's Law rather wonderful #numbers

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh: BRAI Bill - Bulldozing public opinion - http://bit.ly/pl3XTw bullying, more like... #india #monsanto

Appeals Court Reinstates $675,000 File-Sharing Decision Against Joel Tenenbaum - http://bit.ly/r03FUb "case grinds on"

Cablegate: #EU-#US Negotiations on trade, health etc - http://bit.ly/n2FPmW nausea-inducing chumminess as they stitch us up

"would create the impression of a deal being struck behind closed doors": Italian WIPO rep of EU patent harmonisation – http://bit.ly/olsbV5

WTO Rules Against Dolphin-Safe Tuna Labels - http://bit.ly/qNvLb7 US consumers want it, dolphins want it...but WTO says no: time to go, #WTO

NYTimes.com Strikes False Balance On Climate Change - http://bit.ly/nFzNU2 "climate-realist perspective": lipstick on the denialist pig

#FSF speaks against patent and DRM provisions at Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiators' meeting - http://bit.ly/qfwXva good to see #tpp