111230

#OpenStreetMap: The Next Wave Of Commoditization For Startups? - http://bit.ly/ruxEqL moving up the business stack #opensource #osm

Interview with Jim Zemlin, #Linux Foundation, Part II - http://bit.ly/vNEiQI insights on the world of #embedded systems and #asia

HTC Bows to Customer Demand, Unlocks #Android Bootloader - http://bit.ly/uWUfWD great trend

ICANN Chair: We will not delay or restrict new gTLD program - http://bit.ly/sGAwlY madness: this will end in net-wide tears #security

Monmouthpedia: #Wikipedia’s new project covering life in the Welsh town of Monmouth - http://tnw.co/uqD7Ti great move #wales

High Street Blues - http://bit.ly/rwhvtE great, reasoned analysis of the coming bloodbath #retailing #economics #demographics

Woof! GreenGoose's Household Wireless Sensors Now Available for Order - http://dthin.gs/uSWGFc plenty of clever hacks with these... #domotics

Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99% - http://bit.ly/tg6rKJ I know redundancy is good, but what about building on #diaspora?

A Defender of World’s Whales Sees Only a Tenuous Recovery - http://bit.ly/w03o08 sickening details of "scientific" whaling #japan

Wall Street Has a Vested Interest in Investor Ignorance - http://onforb.es/trO43K oh, yeah - obvious, really...

#Symbian is still top mobile OS - finished 2011 with resurgence - http://bit.ly/vUtPw3 pity #nokia is killing it, then... #mobile

Johnson & Johnson Refuses To License Three #HIV Drugs To Medicines #Patent Pool; Invites Patent Override - http://bit.ly/rFrbk6 lovely

If #Logos Were Honest - http://bit.ly/tkcTcp I don't think these are new (?), but they're quite witty (v @jscarantino @whiteafrican)

Reinvent the display–again - http://bit.ly/tgMmPl interesting tech, interesting company #pixelqi

#Anonymous targets Sony over #SOPA - http://bit.ly/srwF5A so who's next?

FDA Documents Show Agency Once Strongly Opposed Farm Antibiotic Overuse - http://bit.ly/rqvHhn strange how facts change... #lobbying

Dazzling Satellite Views of Vast Moon Crater - http://bit.ly/uFd1aB oooh, pretty #science

The Coming War on General Computation - http://bit.ly/uw8LlW IMHO the best talk of @doctorow yet; read it - it's crucially important

Doctors Discover Copyright Law: Cognitive Screening Test Killed Over Infringement Claims - http://bit.ly/v87XWi why #copyright was invented

#Israeli law firm threatens to sue #Twitter over alleged #Hezbollah accounts - http://tnw.co/vlg1vF uh-huh

#Nintendo, #Sony back off of #SOPA support - http://bit.ly/sG5E3s important: this shows kicking up a fuss works

Reddit brouhaha forces Paul Ryan to point out that he isn’t sponsoring #SOPA - http://tnw.co/uUCeKN another important sign of shifts

Candidates Starting To Turn #SOPA Into A Campaign Issue: Karen Kwiatkowski Goes After Bob Goodlatte - http://bit.ly/s8XJqK NB logic here

Very public #health - http://bit.ly/tO7EtP "to open up and share as much health information as possible" #opendata #privacy

Domain Blocking Will Encourage Yet More Fraud and Scams - http://bit.ly/sZWrcP this and new TLDs: what a recipe for disaster #sopa

111229

Bugs may be resistant to genetically modified corn - http://on.msnbc.com/vfFUEM good to see wider coverage of this #gm

#28C3: New attacks on #GSM mobiles and security measures shown - http://bit.ly/vEvEbR interesting stuff, as ever

Apps for #apes: Orang-utans want iPads for Christmas - http://bit.ly/uoUv6p fascinating opportunities for interspecies communication

European Countries Refuse to Release Information on CIA Rendition Flights - http://bit.ly/uVZp7J shabby & shameful (v @jmcest)#torture

16 Modern #China #Engineering Feats & Industrial Achievements - http://bit.ly/sbYeuk these are...rather impressive

Cablegate: Microsoft Attacks Free/Open Source Software in Indonesian Government, Breaks 1999 Monopolies Law – http://bit.ly/ubKYsv

Note is Creating #Phablet Market, Says #Samsung - http://dthin.gs/rPPdx8 significant, if confirmed

State of Adversarial #Stylometry: can you change your prose-style? - http://bit.ly/sZg3TZ what a great name: #Anonymouth

Modern Darknets - http://bit.ly/vGIHIR our future, courtesy of #SOPA and its inevitable descendants #censorship #surveillance #resilience

US Mainstream Media Refuses Op-Ed About TSA Eroding Civil Liberties... But Pravda Publishes It - http://bit.ly/tVQxf6 straws in the wind...

As #GoDaddy Deals With #SOPA Fallout, Hollywood Wants To Punish GoDaddy For Enabling Infringement - http://bit.ly/uj7b3y well, yes

The P2PU Review of 2011 - http://bit.ly/ue2Tvc promising project #education

15 Percent of US File-Sharers Hide Their IP-Address, More to Folllow - http://bit.ly/sUat1j oh yes... #surveillance

"Freedom is in Peril" A sister to the more famous “Don’t Panic Carry on” World War II poster - http://bit.ly/uBGhg9 we're going to need it

pic of the week: Fireplace in the Painted Hall - http://bit.ly/rMDN6P magic #london #pix

'Closing the knowledge gap': why Google wants #Android to be open - http://bit.ly/uief0n spot on and well put #openness

111228

A Biotech Lab In Every Garage, Or In Every Library? - http://bit.ly/soWB9T the next revolution? #syntheticbiology

Google announces 3.7m #Android activations over the Christmas weekend - http://tnw.co/sjAZEd impressive

Open Web FTW - http://bit.ly/rThuP7 Matt Mullenweg on why we need it #openweb

Court Order Blocks BitTorrent, Megaupload and More - http://bit.ly/v0nsx9 #india behaving badly #censorship

Radical openness in educational materials: The next step in Washington - http://bit.ly/vcaGZL surprisingly clueful ideas here #oer #ocw

#Android: The Consequences Of Open - http://onforb.es/sAsSs7 moral: openness works

China’s Parallel Online Universe - http://bit.ly/t4HPe4 good intro to #china's massively efficient #censorship machine

Jamaica's #patois Bible: The word of God in creole - http://bbc.in/vHb2t1 wonderful stuff (v languagehat.com) #linguistics #language

#Twitter Ignored Request To Keep Subpoena Under Wraps - http://rww.to/vGpgvx on the side of the angels once more

Content industry supports "Stop Airline Piracy Act" (SAPA) - http://bit.ly/tNm8oM not a misprint; nicely done... #sopa

#CAD for #RNA - http://bit.ly/vQgggZ sounds cool, but is it #opensource? it needs to be...

Путин переведет правительство на #Linux - http://bit.ly/rtDae1 big: russian government moving to #freesw; also creating #opendata repository

Japanese Supreme Court Says Developer Of File Sharing s/w Not Guilty Of Infringement Done By Users - http://bit.ly/rIyPEJ ridiculous case

Archos #DECT-Enabled 35 Phone is a Smart Home Phone That Runs Android - http://bit.ly/tnxG2g #android getting everywhere

EU To Focus On Digital Content Policy In 2012 - http://bit.ly/sNkSAs NB: including #IPRED 2 #surveillance #censorship

#Mexico's cartels build own national radio system - http://yhoo.it/vyvSXC wow, that's what I call #resilience

Interview with Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation - http://bit.ly/shFEnM where he came from, where he's going... #linux

Blender Face Capture - http://bit.ly/t5hOm4 #blender is so cool #opensource

Five things we learned about #publishing in 2011 - http://oreil.ly/vEdbSe summary: old-style publishers are doomed

Church of the Nativity Clergy Brawl 2011 Goes Well - http://gaw.kr/rDp5FN thank goodness there are some things you can depend upon

The Great Digitization Or The Great Betrayal? - http://bit.ly/rO9Om4 I'm looking at you, #BritishLibrary #copyright

Expansion Of Patentability In The US: Google Acquired A Patent On Doodles - http://bit.ly/tX0ZkQ oh, come on (v @patentlyo @ArnaudAudouin)

Mega entrevista de Natal do #LibreOffice - http://bit.ly/sSXj13 very detailed #brazil

#GoDaddy: Never Mind That SOPA Thing, Look at Danica Patrick - http://dthin.gs/tpmVFe these people really have a deathwish

Painfully excluded from WP7′s roadmap: #Nokia - http://tnw.co/u6HBlZ huh?

Reddit Users to Target Supporters of #SOPA in Congress After Successful Boycott of GoDaddy - http://onforb.es/viF8fp could be fun

Copyright Tourism: Korean Companies Sue Guy From Australia For #Copyright Infringement... In California - http://bit.ly/ruP1gA bad precedent

111227

How Even Highly-Targeted #Censorship Can Lead To #Overblocking - http://bit.ly/ujeGpx yet another reason to fight it #newzbin2 #bt

RT @weirdshanghai#china copies usa, fingerprinting of laowai to begin. - http://bit.ly/vmYplL >>was bound to happen (v @sinosplice)

Toward a new model of scientific #publishing: discussion and a proposal - http://bit.ly/sQJ5Dl excellent, thoughtful analysis

#China sichert sich Ölfeld in #Afghanistan - http://bit.ly/tyQ4Qt symbolic much? #geopolitics

The coming #retail apocalypse: some axioms - http://bit.ly/vfqRjA not hugely new, but clearly put #internet

Eric Schmidt discusses #Google’s competitors, China, acquisitions - http://tnw.co/ry4iZN "record of your searches is retained" for a year

American corporate software can no longer be trusted for anything - http://bit.ly/rHPiFP Falkvinge on what #SOPA really teaches us #freesw

Jack Abramoff Explains The Return On Investment For Lobbying: 22,000% Is Surprisingly Low - http://bit.ly/ul0Ghu why it's going to get worse

Conservatives lining up in opposition to #SOPA - http://bit.ly/sGI39w striking trend

Lessons from Suppressing Research - http://bit.ly/rW9FUF provocative & thought provoking (v @AlecMuffett @glynwintle)

#Taiwan: Crowd-funded investigative journalism website kicks off - http://bit.ly/rNsllW interesting move

Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us - http://bit.ly/uTYPyd not quite what the point of this article was...

Stadterweiterung: Moskaus Megawachstum - http://bit.ly/umNGa7 gosh: #Moscow is Europe's biggest city; I didn't know that... #russia

How The Long Tail Cripples Bonus Content/Multimedia - http://bit.ly/t5JOlP that's good: who wants #ebooks to be like #TV?

Who Will Be The First Politician To Be GoDaddy'd? - http://bit.ly/uKUFoF cripes, what fun: the birth of a neologism #linguistics #sopa

111226

#Mozilla releases Learning, Freedom & the Web (e)book - http://bit.ly/rWaXpw free, of course: cc by-sa

#Oracle v. #Google - A Last Minute Present to Google from the USPTO - http://bit.ly/uZdqxn see? it can be done; so do it more often #patents

Kanji of the Year: the tie that binds - http://bit.ly/shCAkc long, wide-ranging post #linguistics #japanese

The year in big data and data science - http://oreil.ly/sMOVY7 a summary in case you blinked #opendata #hadoop

Photos of an Empty London on Christmas Morning - http://bit.ly/sl0bZK fab and eerie #london #pix

#GoDaddy's domain registration after #SOPA: behind the numbers - http://bit.ly/vOlgOz useful context

Skrillex: Happy Holidays! Pirate My Music, I’ll Still Love You - http://bit.ly/vRRYgL someone else who gets it #businessmodels

The State of Online Courseware With The UK's Open University - http://rww.to/umX1lM pugnacious piece; unflattering about MIT OCW #ou

#Brazil: Murder or Suicide of Controversial Blogger? - http://bit.ly/v7ZqVH certainly warrants further investigation (v @asteris)

Dutch Parliament: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal - http://bit.ly/rY4A8r but only for the moment: not over yet #nl

Tencent vs. Sina: The Fight for #China’s Social Graph - http://tcrn.ch/u92f5s never mind about boring #facebook, this is the big battle...

#Android Approved By Pentagon For #DoD Usage, Major Setback For #iPhone - http://bit.ly/uVijNl the killer advantage? #opensource, of course

#Africa's burgeoning middle class brings hope to a continent - http://bit.ly/tUcJha "world's fastest-growing mobile phone market" #android?

For shame! Microsoft’s continued support of the PROTECT IP Act is disgraceful - http://tnw.co/tAC5dy & it's not alone...

#Android Is Finally Coming Back to #Linux Kernel - http://bit.ly/uEU4qt about time, too

The Looming Library Lending Battle - http://bit.ly/tvirO3 </sigh> seems publishers are as clueless as recording industry #ebooks

Now #GoDaddy Has To Contend With ByeDaddy - http://tcrn.ch/vywk2w interesting tool: could have wider repurcussions

Sea Shepherd uses drone to hunt #whalers - http://bit.ly/tJgz4u #drones will be an absolute game-changer, especially in domestic use...

Downhill extreme: Rollerman overtaking motocycle! - http://bit.ly/ttVH3M this bloke is a complete nutter

100 people arrested in Chitral, protest rallies against timber mafia - http://bit.ly/tVw5lA depressing, so common it has a name

Lieberman wants #Taliban blocked on #Twitter - http://bit.ly/sCRgD2 because Net censorship works so well

Time to end the war on drugs - http://bit.ly/uounAT kudos to Richard Branson for this call (v @leashless)#portugal

Infringing Download Without Further Infringement Only Supports Lost License Fee--Real View v. 20-20 - http://bit.ly/szQ4MX signs of hope

New Wikipedia Layer on Geoloqi Gives You Vision Beyond the Greek Gods - http://rww.to/suJc68 "It is a robot that gently taps my shoulder"

Mozilla's Boot to Gecko Mobile OS Concept: One to Watch in 2012 - http://bit.ly/tZ59Z6 let's hope; linux-based stack

Reclamação contra concursos públicos ilegais - http://bit.ly/smG3kR nice move by Portuguese free software association #pt

JXD S7100 #Android Gaming Tablet/Handset Boasts Galaxy S II Specs 4 $140 - http://bit.ly/vlrOsZ this is the future (but at half this price)

What exactly is a consultant? - http://bit.ly/vHXAQN ha!

This is what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956 (note: required a forklift). - http://tnw.co/vuD4kJ ah, those were the days...

Obama Likes the Internet, So He’ll Probably Veto #SOPA If It Gets That Far - http://dthin.gs/uaZQzO naive, much? (v @jeffjarvis @karaswisher)

While Drafting #SOPA, the U.S. House Harbors BitTorrent Pirates - http://bit.ly/s1t39F well, that was inevitable, wasn't it? #hypocrisyisus

Who needs SOPA when you have GoDaddy's shutdown policy? - http://bit.ly/rS3wra more #godaddy fun

Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark - http://bit.ly/vb7K2A oh, lovely

"Nadie respeta la cultura de un país que lidera las descargas ilegales" - http://bit.ly/tr342a more cluelessness (v @RRSalceda @SinkDeep)

Movies, Now More Than Ever, Or Is It Video Games? - http://bit.ly/s7eJII whoa: "Studios admitting that they compete for leisure dollars?"

111223

Japanese File-Sharing App Creator Not Guilty of #Copyright Infringement - http://bit.ly/rXYjuu v important win #p2p #piracy

MorpHex part II - http://bit.ly/tCQ9N1 whoa: The Prisoner/RoboCop all rolled (sic) into one #future #robotics

anyone know if #apple has made any official statements about #SOPA? or any implicit support/condemnation? I think we need to know...

Over 40 Internet Companies Come Out Publicly Against SOPA - http://tcrn.ch/uIWe8W so where's #apple? "on the fence" is not an answer...

Raspberry Pi beta boards populated (with pix) - http://bit.ly/tJ8RBF nearly there #linux #arm

motion to dismiss the Authors Guild as a plaintiff from its case against Google

1,000 noteworthy #opensource downloads - http://bit.ly/vCxYGH with capsule reviews; 1000 perfect gifts

Brazil's #Copyright Reform Draft Bill: The Good, The Bad And The Confused - http://bit.ly/ucb4AJ #brazil rather losing its way here

DoH lack of transparency hides £470m spent on management consultants - http://bit.ly/tT4dmB more spent on them than on lung & skin cancer

The rise and rise of the landless movement in Brazil - http://bit.ly/s2pnlM brazil's new forest code is utter madness, driving deforestation

“Yes We Scan” - http://bit.ly/tI7U4c "to digitize the contents of all US libraries including the Library of Congress"

Anti-CNN Spokesman Shaun Rein - http://bit.ly/v1RgRc interesting post about important issues #journalism #china

A new M.A. in entrepreneurial #journalism at CUNY - http://bit.ly/urLSHZ messages from the future

Daft Idea Of The Week: Giving People #Copyright In Their Faces - http://bit.ly/ryAvHw no, really?

Now sync your own videos to the #Kindle Fire with #Miro - http://bit.ly/tJCaTc #opensource video player now even more wonderful

FDA Won’t Act Against Ag Antibiotic Use - http://bit.ly/uBCI0E utterly nuts: many people will die as a result of this cave-in to lobbyists

Go Daddy No Longer Supports #SOPA - http://bit.ly/uOB0Oy wow, they crumpled faster than I expected (v @richi)#godaddy

1976 Letter from Potential Partner Calls Steve Jobs a ‘Joker’ - http://on.mash.to/vdWjWK rather amusing

INDA: Portal Brasileiro de Dados Abertos - http://bit.ly/ve1FVT cool: coming in 2012 #opendata #brazil

The role of belief in ebook pricing and what to do about it - http://bit.ly/sYPc2X needed: some facts #publishing

111222

The Future of Academic Research - http://bit.ly/tmXmp7 great post about #openscience - or lack of it

pic of the week: Wharfhenge - http://bit.ly/rQIEiJ the other place to be for the winter solstice (v @paul_clarke)#london

All the Companies Supporting #SOPA, the Awful Internet Censorship Law—and How to Contact Them - http://gizmo.do/v1d53L give them an earful

The Shadow Superpower - http://bit.ly/vLRdzt all about "Systeme D" - "l'economie de la débrouillardise" (v @johnrobb)#economics

Retired, Computerless Woman Fined For Pirating ‘Hooligan’ Movie - http://bit.ly/uxDA0w guilty until proved innocent: shame on you, #germany

#Nokia Lumia Accounted For Only 0.17 Percent Of UK Sales In November - http://bit.ly/vfJFaz the shift to Windows Phone is clearly working

A Ninja in Our Sites - http://bit.ly/rUYjjk great feature on Ninja Video saga and background to #SOPA

Stop fetishizing the scientific paper - http://bit.ly/vFkoCA interesting point about retractions in science (v @CameronNeylon)

Bankers Join Billionaires to Debunk ‘Imbecile’ Attack on Top 1% - http://bloom.bg/tytLDy a parade of discredited ideas (v Charles-H. Schulz)

US-Fähren rüsten sich für Moppel-Passagiere - http://bit.ly/rrLJVV unexpected side-effect of people getting fatter

European Commission's official #ACTA page - http://bit.ly/rXNUcO some useful links to dox (v @Dana_Council)

A wee conventional implicature - http://bit.ly/tO8b6N a wee analysis of an interesting usage #linguistics #language

RT @onewmphoto @KevorkO The French Armenian Genocide law has passed in the National Assembly. #Armenie #genocide >>#turkey won't like that

US police stock up on battle gear - http://bit.ly/t3tu2d I'm sure they'd never use it on ordinary citizens...

The Myth That #SOPA/PIPA Only Impact 'Foreign Sites' - http://bit.ly/u3Gn0N just in case you had any doubts #fud

Amazon’s e-book tax loophole could mean lower EU prices, but that’s bad for UK competition - http://tnw.co/tjrvRi ebook VAT should be 0%

Big losses for Maharashtra's Bt cotton farmers - http://bit.ly/w4Bqwk shouldn't #monsanto be footing this bill? #india

Why Samsung just entered the dual-SIM #smartphone game - http://bit.ly/rr0JLw shrewd - and necessary - move #emergingmarkets

New Agreement Between US and EU Will Compromise the Privacy Rights of International Travelers - http://bit.ly/tUmR2e EP veto, please...

Bell Canada drops traffic shaping in favor of an "economic" approach - http://bit.ly/uzkMsQ useful analysis; general lessons #ca

#Nokia retires the #Symbian brand - http://bit.ly/u6cVx6 chucks away one of best-known brands; folly

it's been about 12 days since the thing started and yesterday we hit the crazy number. One million dollars. - http://bit.ly/ugdWdZ kudos

Software Patents and Barriers to Entry - http://onforb.es/voyNGe what he said #swpats

Smartphones killing point-and-shoots, now take almost 1/3 of photos - http://bit.ly/rvHe53 they're not phones, they're Universal Devices

How #SOPA Creates The Architecture For Much More Widespread Censorship - http://bit.ly/sgmqny probably it's worst aspect

The Digital Roll-Out of Resilient Communities - http://bit.ly/s4WUtw interesting graph for #android

RT @aprica Yeah: Romanian Senate rejects new #dataretention law bit.ly/tHp3T4 >>good move #ro

Sonos removes Windows DRM playback, customers left high & dry - http://bit.ly/sXSvrF will people never learn? this is what #drm does

#Google Will Pay #Mozilla Almost $300M Per Year in Search Deal - http://dthin.gs/uWJLzL very good news for #opensource and #openweb

Study: Apps Are For #Android, Games For the iPhone - http://rww.to/tYqU6Z now I understand: #iPhone is the Xbox of smartphones

#GoDaddy's SOPA Support Sparks Calls for #Boycotts and Domain Transfers - http://rww.to/sPV4TF couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of fools

Cheezburger CEO threatens to yank 1,000 domains from #GoDaddy over SOPA support - http://tnw.co/vh7fs4 kudos, mighty #Cheezburger #boycott

Paul Graham: #SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day - http://tcrn.ch/uSl449 kudos, Mr Graham #boycott

Hurt Locker BitTorrent Lawsuit Dies, But Not Without Controversy - http://bit.ly/v4HYGq "250K sued for alleged BitTorrent downloads"

Best. Spam. Evah. - http://bit.ly/sht7ua who says geeks are unlucky in love? (v @BiellaColeman)#linux

111221

Do We Really Need #Copyright For #Academic Publishing? - http://bit.ly/ukdwNM well, do we?

'Lower IT budget will push public administrations to open source" - http://bit.ly/tMKK8m let's hope: it's about time (v @Sjig)#eu

Rentnerin ohne Computer muss wegen Raubkopie zahlen - http://bit.ly/udDJTt further proof the system has gone bonkers #copyright

interesting map of most popular #mobile OS by country - http://bit.ly/vneycC this will look radically different in a year (v @vickeegan)

RT @Falkvinge German #Piratenpartei appears to stabilize around 7-9% in country-wide polls. wahlrecht.de Glückwunsch! >>interesting

Irish property developers' grand vision for Battersea power station left in ruins - http://bit.ly/uPCLYC yet another scheme fails #london

#Android: 700,000 Activations Per Day, WiFi Not Included? - http://bit.ly/vOeymc that's over 200 million per year currently

Microsoft und Nokia liebäugelten mit RIM-Übernahme - http://bit.ly/sUXmiv #RIM is clearly toast

Brand Identity - http://bit.ly/s6FTQA makes sense #xkcd

#Microsoft, #Nokia linked to comments on negative Lumia review - http://cnet.co/sDabQJ they can't even do #astroturfing properly

New #Firefox for #Android Experience Optimized for Tablets - http://bit.ly/v6KPiZ cool; now all I need is a tablet

Tomorrow’s #SOPA hearing has been cancelled - http://tnw.co/t2oXNy let's hope it's not a trick...

Both Sides Claim Victory In Microsoft-Motorola Patent Dispute At ITC - http://bit.ly/skYHmK well, they would do

#Apple Claims Samsung Tablet, Phone Cases Infringe Patents - http://buswk.co/urqZRd next: claims patent on air inside (v @opensourcerer)

UK Ministry of Justice dreams of £1bn mega IT framework - http://bit.ly/uQxjra they never learn, do they? #itdisasters

RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP- Addresses - http://bit.ly/tlrIRX so they won't mind everyone using that excuse, no?#Big Entertainment Companies Issuing Wrongful YouTube Claims On Public Domain Works - http://bit.ly/s0WrSq but they never get punished

#India’s $45 tablet sold out in a week as pre-orders open for $55 device - http://tnw.co/rEWCUQ this is the power of #android

MT @rmack @_rubensk:“CNNIC to apply for .公司 (company) and .网络 (network)" http://bit.ly/vXRSrs >>so much more attractive than .com, .net

Why #Java Isn't Dead On #Ubuntu - http://bit.ly/saqsFi @webmink clears up the confusion

SurDoc Raises $4 Million For Sharing Formatted Documents Across All Platforms - http://tcrn.ch/uakgb2 uses #UOML: anyone know this?

Ideas for OpenPhilosophy.org - http://bit.ly/vCJE1p sounds good

#China tops U.S, Japan to become top #patent filer - http://reut.rs/tNNl8B no surprise, but quantity does not equal quality (v @fosspatents)

Ofcom maps out what 'psychics' are allowed to do on TV - http://bit.ly/w5cNCd well done, #ofcom

Mobile #censorship - http://bit.ly/ruGXEx ORG site to monitor growing problem in UK

Japanese Company Works On 13-Foot #Robot With Built-In Cockpit - http://tcrn.ch/rHufzN what could possibly go wrong?

U.S. Holds On to Biometrics Database of 3 Million Iraqis - http://bit.ly/udqrVc "Iraqis might be able to access the database’s contents"

You knew the old Mozilla, meet the new Mozilla - http://bit.ly/s8pvv5 "the emergence of new facets of #Mozilla" (v @gnat)

Did You Embed The Leaked Trailer For Dark Knight Rises On Your Blog? Under #SOPA, You May Face Jail Time - http://bit.ly/sMJrMm ready?

FOSS dev's campaign against software patents in #australia moves ahead - http://bit.ly/tvctbQ good to see #swpats #au (v @zoobab)

Google’s Rubin: ITC ruling in Apple/HTC case may see start of patent settlements - http://tnw.co/scSWd1 really? #android

Virtual Choir 3: Water Night - http://bit.ly/rMQ9OA you choice to singalongawhitacre #music

Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices - http://bit.ly/tLR7q7 telling that this is necessary

US Government Targets The Pirate Bay, Megaupload and Others - http://bit.ly/sViLXI isn't it time we just ignored this nonsense?

#Scribd Protests #SOPA By Making A Billion Pages On The Web Disappear - http://tcrn.ch/v0GCXN clever metaphor

Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis - http://bit.ly/v0yRQT significant indicator #demographics

Legal Affairs committee meeting 20 December - http://bit.ly/vTpLJY #gallo is a disaster: trying to force #ACTA through without due scrutiny

Why do women menstruate? - http://bit.ly/vfQy8B something I've wondered too; here's a plausible explanation

#Bitcoin's comeback: should Western Union be afraid? - http://bit.ly/vc0sgq not dead yet

A simple HTML tag will crash 64-bit #Windows 7 - http://bit.ly/rZIksh stability, what's that? (v @BrendanEich @briankrebs)

The Future of #Drone Warfare - http://bit.ly/uzrQ86 important: coming to a sky near you

111220

Three Strikes Approach Rejected By Irish Data Protection Commissioner, Gov't Seeks Censorship Plan Instead - http://bit.ly/vbSURb </sigh>

LiMux—Free Software for Munich - http://bit.ly/t50mcy fab, detailed history of this key project (v @jjkaraganis)#linux

Open Access Is Spreading -- But Is It Really Open Access? - http://bit.ly/s4fXfF er, probably not #licensing

“Spanish Napster” Victorious As Court Rejects Major Label Copyright Case - http://bit.ly/vUoqMj hugely important win #spain

EC Toughens Checks as China Fails to Stop #GM Rice Contamination - http://bit.ly/sRrbwa probably unstoppable; time to abolish gene patents

#RIAA's Report Card on #Google's Anti-Piracy Policies - http://bit.ly/tPKzxM hilarious: "Stop Self-Serving Alarmist Rhetoric" (v @jonbains)

Source: #Groupon Doesn’t Have The Cash to Build Its New Data Center - http://bit.ly/ufhwoF anyone else think this will end in tears?

RECAP & UPDATE: the Unitary Patent System and Unified Patent Court - http://bit.ly/szPtAv good summary of a real mess

The Myth of the Unintended Infringer in #SOPA and PIPA - http://bit.ly/s80jZ5 good point from Paul Vixie

Apache's Open Letter to the #ODF Ecosystem - http://bit.ly/vg2dNY "we seek to offer a neutral and powerful collaboration opportunity" #asf

How #Twitter Stores 250 Million Tweets a Day Using #MySQL - http://bit.ly/tR4Xn0 great data point for #opensource (v @gnat)

The Open Access Movement is disorganized; this must not continue - http://bit.ly/viHyXK "we need an Open Access Institute": yes #oa

BT Joins the Patent Hall of Shame - http://bit.ly/uVUOb0 does #BT really want to be hated...*again*? #android #patents

New Anti-#SOPA Song & Crowdsourced Video From Dan Bull - http://bit.ly/u2Eb4m totally fab: do listen and pass it on

Open Humanities Working Group Update - http://bit.ly/saUw3U "now have a blog to help coordinate all of the projects in the humanities:"

Dell and China's Baidu launch new smartphone - http://bit.ly/sk9ixC "uses the "Baidu Yi" platform, which is compatible with Android app"

RT @FelixTreguer#Gallo says waiting for EUCJ opinion on #ACTA would be too long & "disastrous" for the EU economy... #dogmatism >>what rot

Invisible #Censorship: How the Government Censors Without Being Seen - http://bit.ly/sclt0o #india becomes #china: sad

Postmarket Effects of Intellectual Monopoly - http://bit.ly/tOL7Jj why downloadable music is more expensive than CDs; nice analysis

Consistency of Korea-US Free Trade Agreement #Copyright Provisions with U.S. Law - http://bit.ly/rNqkJ0 interesting, unsurprising

Senado Mexicano se postra a los pies de la industria del copyright - http://bit.ly/thlTeb wow, this is seriously bad #leyDoring

Can the USPTO Be Sued Under the APA for Issuing Bad Patents? - http://bit.ly/vpJf6b now there's an idea...

OpenCorporates: 1 year on: 10 times bigger, masses more data… & a new #API - http://bit.ly/uzvY3r I predict great things for this #opendata

European Parliament opposes free ads for proprietary software on EU web sites - http://bit.ly/uM0t1R quite right (v @Sjig)#eu

Infographic Remix: #ACTA, Lethal Weapon Against your Rights! - http://bit.ly/rU84QE EU people: soon time to contact your MEPs

US Govt secretly snoops on your email - http://bit.ly/ugemzq the answer is clearly to write more, and more rubbish

Copyright law: no one understands it - http://bit.ly/s8LUoS not even lawyers, caught here using copyright pix without permission

Is America a Failing State? - http://bit.ly/uf7KYd and is the UK next in line?

EU patent gets Legal Affairs Committee green light - http://bit.ly/rK70P1 that's a pity; still nees european parliament approval

Statistik: Energieverbrauch Deutschlands sinkt kräftig - http://bit.ly/tXxCJS largely thanks to the weather, apparently #de

Learning from LiMux - http://bit.ly/uNSjM7 do we have the "formalized body of knowledge or best practices" we need yet? #linux #opensource

Indian farm suicides - key facts and figures - http://bit.ly/szDYmG terrible numbers, getting worse

There's a map for that - http://oreil.ly/tvVgjp fighting gerrymandering with #opensource #opendata

Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Stolen From Dulwich Park - http://bit.ly/u6G9ip probably to be melted down; what pathetic individuals

HMRC: crack down on tax dodgers - http://bit.ly/tNPsI0 epetition to stop this ridiculous state of affairs

Sprint goes on the offensive with patent suit against cable - http://bit.ly/sPGlhF more patent madness: what a surprise

What #fairuse is for - http://bit.ly/sz2omS thoughts on the Authors’ Guild lawsuit against the Hathi Trust

Apple’s latest patent spells big trouble for competitors - http://bit.ly/s6NcAa another ridiculously obvious, easy to implement technique

Kindle Fire, Nook #Tablet pushing Android tablet share to 40 percent, predicts IDC - http://bit.ly/tt9YIo a prediction, but plausible

Cryptocat - http://bit.ly/tyujap "open source encrypted, private alternative to other services such as Facebook chat" (v @putt1ck)

Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox - http://bit.ly/tXMK3D as some of us predicted (v @beltzner @paulrouget)

TEXTUS: an open source platform for working with collections of texts and metadata - http://bit.ly/tdahCJ sounds great; just needs writing

Veoh Still Perfectly Legal... But Also Still Dead Due To Bogus Copyright Lawsuit - http://bit.ly/rppmJc good ruling, but too late...

Twitter to open source code from newly-acquired Whisper Systems - http://bit.ly/tKduMi well done chaps

A new way to contribute to #Wikipedia - http://bit.ly/tAXilP significant move

Best idea of 2011: Give control of Net content to group that sued a dead grandmother - http://bit.ly/uAh2wJ (v @normative @cybertheorist)

111219

India’s Smartphone Market: 68% Annual Growth, iOS captures 2.6% - http://bit.ly/sLTU5y but no #android figure; growth 10%

European Parliament adopts proposals to improve EU #transparency rules - http://bit.ly/stTLZC shame it's taken this long

Access to data in industry-sponsored trials - http://bit.ly/sSBeER important stuff #opendata #clinicaltrials

MT @Glinner @GeraghtyDarren Disgusting. EMI threatens Ireland with legal action if they don't #censor the internet – http://bit.ly/tNf8BY

Whitehall: Govt-related private email, texts will be uncloaked - http://bit.ly/uR8bLI important #FOI clarification #uk

Time for OSchoice.eu? - http://bit.ly/rFZHx4 interesting thought experiment; won't ever happen

Inside The Atlantic: How One Magazine Got Profitable by Going ‘Digital First’ - http://on.mash.to/ukc05w this is how to do it

#Fairuse in Europe: Bernt Hugenholtz and Martin Senftleben in search of flexibilities - http://bit.ly/rULDeU interesting report

Result! #Vodafone now allows internet underwear shopping - http://bit.ly/syYrdv why it is always worth kicking up a fuss #censorship

The #OpenAccess Interviews: OMICS Publishing Group’s Srinu Babu Gedela - http://bit.ly/tyVQc6 "a predatory Open Access publisher"?

Dec. 19, 1974: Build Your Own Computer at Home! - http://bit.ly/v9uibH 256-byte memory; so far, so fast #altair

How does mobile Internet filtering work? - http://bit.ly/ttBpnX increasingly important question #censorship

Coalmine a 'threat to global warming target' - http://bit.ly/tV9C5b such as "China First" project - at least they're honest about priorities

Meizu CEO Confirms Meizu mPad Tablet Exists! - http://bit.ly/w3d9n8 #android-based #china

Could Domestic Surveillance #Drones Spur Tougher #Privacy Laws? - http://bit.ly/t2xzJL interesting perspective

EU Council Quietly Adopts #ACTA, By Hiding It In An Agriculture And Fisheries Meeting - http://bit.ly/ue8MeE in case you missed it #fishy

The List Of Internet Censoring Countries The MPAA Thinks Provide A Good Example For The US - http://bit.ly/s7Leai guess who... #sopa

Why Defensive .XXX Registration Is Only the Beginning of a Branding Nightmare - http://on.mash.to/vMyPBK just as I and everyone predicted

Don't Break the Internet - http://bit.ly/up6bpf "unprecedented, legally sanctioned assault on Internet’s critical technical infrastructure"

Geologists Find Source of Stonehenge’s Inner Stones - http://bit.ly/stwuiy cool #archaeology

#Tibet’s resource curse - http://bit.ly/vqPhXG the dark side of green energy #china #lithium

What the Frack? Hydraulic Fracturing Companies Exempt from Public Health Laws - http://bit.ly/vsi6Xx gosh, how handy (v @dcarli)

Does Congress Even Realize That The Courts Appear To Think That #SOPA Is Already In Force? - http://bit.ly/rqccnh crazy & disturbing

AT&T admits defeat on T-Mobile takeover, will pay $4 billion breakup fee - http://bit.ly/tshcSX ouch

MT @chrisblizzard Louis CK's event costs were $170k. Since he streamed for-pay MP4 for $550k in revenue that's $11k in MP4 license fees.

111218

#RIAA and Homeland Security Caught Downloading Torrents - http://bit.ly/rW8u9t this was inevitable #hypocrisy

#Wikipedia's latest annual report: the way the world tells its story - http://bit.ly/sJkJUP Wael Ghonim: ‘Our revolution is like Wikipedia…’

FSF: We want to do more for you! - http://bit.ly/tHVlvU the perfect geek prezzie...

Facebook For #Android Finally Has More Daily Active Users Than #Facebook For #iPhone - http://tcrn.ch/tbVBtc another data point

How #SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries - http://bit.ly/vvdqs4 #OCW, #OER and #fairuse all at risk

Russia #oil spills wreak devastation - http://bit.ly/snKKw4 depressing story; good reporting (v @asteris)#environment #energy

GOP chairman expects Obama to sign #SOPA - http://bit.ly/t0LUeQ and disgrace that he is, he will, sadly (v @howardknopf)

I went to same school as Julian #Assange, but we learned different lessons - http://bit.ly/s8hIDH fascinating analysis: do read #occupy

Anatomy Of An Idea - http://bit.ly/run5T1 yup, that's how we do it these days (v @leashless)#research #links

From Rogue To Vogue: Megaupload and Kim Dotcom - http://bit.ly/tzxQnr the real story of #megasong from the man behind it

p2pnet: last post - http://bit.ly/tBYz7X good luck with new venture, Jon Newton - and thanks for all your work

Private copying levy: societies "did not do enough", rules French court - http://bit.ly/uU5Yag bonkers #france

RT @markmackinnon#Kazakhstan unrest spreads to regional capital as death toll rises: bbc.in/vSEMEY >>could this ignite the country?

UK Music statement on copyright proposals - http://bit.ly/uYYn2E rich: calls minor rebalancing "ideologically driven changes" (v @hugonaut)

BT sues Google over patents allegedly infringed by Android - http://bit.ly/swCZoA all of them risible, e.g.: "navigation information system"

Cartoon: #SOPA Opera - http://rww.to/urAA1F yup

#VirginMedia's '#censorship gone mad' - http://bit.ly/s1oPRH this is a joke, right? (v @tim)

111217

Former Tunisian Regime Goes Beyond Spying On Internet Traffic... To Rewriting Emails & More - http://bit.ly/sbf9on now that's sneaky

Do We Really Have to Prepare for the Fourth Box? - http://bit.ly/rMfL7G sombre but important thoughts from Rick Falkvinge

#Apple Abuses #Patent System Again To Obstruct W3C Open Standard - http://bit.ly/sLjHFp going for leadership in evil

Create Subway Maps with jQuery Plugin - http://rww.to/syg1Yk amazing power & durability of Tube map design

Small Entertainment Web Site Fears #SOPA Will Cause It To Shut Down... But ICE Can Already Shut It - http://bit.ly/swopGT all about control

Why is it so easy to save the banks – but so hard to save the biosphere? - http://bit.ly/u1pKCH great question (v @mbauwens)

French Ecology/Green Eva Joly : "Légalisons le partage sur internet !" - http://bit.ly/v9uHlM good idea #france (v @beabusaniche)

Seasonal flame bait - http://bit.ly/rFvO5l must-read: the real purpose of #SOPA (I agree, sadly...)

useful intro to #meshnets and adhoc networking - http://bit.ly/ubuFX9 ever-more necessary (v @Asher_Wolf @fo0_)#wireless #surveillance

Australian Government unlikely to aid #Assange - http://bit.ly/uMxXDv standing up for its citizens...or not (v @wikileaks)

PCMCIA Computer Project Aims Even Higher (and Cheaper) Than Raspberry Pi - http://bit.ly/rO1y9g aiming at $15 per unit #linux

Reuters moves global online newsroom to Bangalore - http://bit.ly/sPiI0h symbolic shift east (v @rmack)

RT @GeorgeMonbiot That #BradleyManning may face life w/o parole for performing service to democracy is the #Dreyfus scandal of our time.

Coming Soon: Ubiquitous Long-Term Surveillance From Big Brother - http://bit.ly/sfx3AI blame Moore's Law for storage #surveillance

Opening Government Data in #Bulgaria - http://bit.ly/tWhDpu great to see #opendata

In case #SOPA passes: emergency list of IP addresses for popular websites - http://bit.ly/uQHUyQ getting serious

What I Learned About the Wired World on Jury Duty - http://rww.to/t2up1x unusual, raises important issues #socialnws

Why you (yes you) should donate your medical data - http://bit.ly/sAHdEg well, maybe #privacy #research

European Parliament adopts proposals to improve EU #transparency rules - http://bit.ly/vSlmOw but will the Council agree?

World's Smallest and Most Power-Efficient Fingerprint Sensor in China - http://bit.ly/vAURXo can't imagine they'll be interested...

Indonesian paper firm logging tiger sanctuary: NGOs - http://f24.my/s4I6Ap Asia Pulp & Paper looking v evil if true #APP #indonesia

British fishing industry lands controversial EU deal - http://bit.ly/sDMzPY fishermen overfish for years, then whinge about smaller quotas

#Water Will Be Critical Limiting Factor of 21st Century Production - http://bit.ly/s1YREI oil? who cares? you can't drink it (v @mbauwens)

RT @zoobab Substantive patent law will remain part of the Unitary Patent, thus making it part of EU legal order ur1.ca/6sa7s >>big