121018

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 121017 - http://bit.ly/TwWDKp yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD 

WIPO SCCR meets on copyright exceptions 4 disabilities -http://bit.ly/WCWnOI "major US objective to exclude persons who are deaf": shameful

Ubuntu Users To Get To Vote With Their Wallets In Support Of New Features -http://bit.ly/OKjPI6 good idea/bad idea?

Leg dich nicht mit dem Muezzin an - http://bit.ly/RDw7iP "Sie wollen Selbstzensur." #tr

FOI Requests: Do You Know about Your Right to Know? - http://bit.ly/TeEGWIinteresting research

NGOs denounce 'culture of secrecy' in EU chemicals agency -http://bit.ly/PbJ5bQ European Chemicals Agency is a joke

Not the Runty Raccoon, the Rufflered Rhino or (even) the Randall Ross -http://bit.ly/TeF4Va "Raring Ringtail"? hmm, unimpressed #ubuntu

Realpolitik 201 - http://bit.ly/RVWv8h frighteningly plausible: "‘anti-terrorist’ no-civil-rights legal regime, militarized police forces"

Google Summer of Code: 55 million lines of code released since 2005 -http://tnw.co/PbJyuE nice work #opensource

OSI and OSHWA Sign Agreement - http://bit.ly/RFJ6Aq so no more squabbling...

Twitter Uses Country-Specific Blocking Powers For The First Time To Restrict Neo-Nazi Account In Germany - http://tcrn.ch/R5RI6i interesting

US military gets into the 3D printing business - http://bit.ly/WqXwKS they'd be mad not to

Meteoric Growth of #LibreOffice on Display - http://bit.ly/Qv9vjw great news

British subpoenas blocked - http://bit.ly/RaN31i interesting case

School of Open builds curriculum at Creative Commons meeting -http://bit.ly/S57m1o "meaning and impact of “openness” in the digital age"

First life may have survived by cooperating - http://bit.ly/OKmq51 see? sharing goes right back to the beginning of life...

“Gang War” Trial Bias Court Ruling Gives Pirate Bay Fresh Hope Of Re-Trial -http://bit.ly/RVYWrr important development

EU Commission forces crisis-hit countries to privatise water -http://bit.ly/Tx09Vl scandalous abuse of people's misery to push agenda

‘Secrecy’ in the Court of Protection - http://bit.ly/R5SIY7 never heard of this before...

Open-Access Journal Experiment Begins Publishing Articles -http://bit.ly/PDAIWm important moves #elife #oa

Court in the net - http://bit.ly/RaNKHL how can we make the legal system transparent?

Civil Society Warnings About IPR Provisions in the Canada-EU Trade Agreement - http://bit.ly/T2f6SQ policy-launderers at work #ceta

Pigs Fly As Open Science Comes To Big Pharma - http://onforb.es/VdjyBe a watershed? we shall see... #opendata

UK’s four biggest mobile operators form joint venture to speed up #4G rollout -http://tnw.co/RFO28j let's see how works in practice

'environmental Taliban': Osborne slams Parl. climate change campaigners -http://ind.pn/TvTdHv reframing as terrorism (v @GeorgeMonbiot) 

The Apache Software Foundation Announces #Apache #OpenOffice as a Top-Level Project - http://bit.ly/RGdivb that's good

A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space -http://slate.me/RDP5G8 rather wonderful (v @stshank)

Another Big Loss For Nokia In Q3: $754M Operating Loss, Only 2.9M Lumias Sold As It Waits On WP8 Launch - http://tcrn.ch/TvXRFr so it goes on

#AU High Court and the Marlboro Man: the plain packaging decision -http://bit.ly/QvGtAd hugely important: kudos to court (v @suigenerisjen)

#Australia Announces Review of Pharmaceutical #Patents -http://bit.ly/R6boXw v interesting move

After India, Now #Indonesia Introduces Patent Licenses For #Generic Versions Of Drugs - http://bit.ly/WrMpBa interesting times in #pharma

Announcing the OpeningParliament blog! - http://bit.ly/RJ1Jqx widening the dialogue (v @DanSwislow)#ogov #opendata

Memo From Tina Brown to All Staff Re: Newsweek’s Digital Future -http://bit.ly/U8KeBY obvious for the last 15 years (v @carlzimmer)

Sanitary towel firm's 'CEO' sets traumatised man straight - http://bit.ly/TfkRyukudos to #bodyform: this is how it's done...

In Germany, taming the web - http://smrt.io/WrPQYS quick sketch of digital activism there #de

Crime in England and Wales falls 6% - http://bit.ly/Ve7Q9J still 545 murders in one year: must try harder...

Saving Rhino Phila – A Genre-Busting Documentary on the Massacre of a Species - http://bit.ly/RGGPov heart-wrenching stuff #conservation

Max Planck publishes Top 12 Reasons why the unitary patent proposals might prove "disastrous" - http://bit.ly/Rb5GCf count 'em (v @zoobab)

A look at the #Bitcoin network transaction history - http://bit.ly/WEc7Rw"current version of payment system not working as intended"

#Nutella Nastygrams Restaurant Promoting Its Product, Opens The Door For Competitors - http://bit.ly/T2Y333 leaves bad taste in mouth...

Cost of #badger cull may force U-turn - http://bit.ly/Rbgi3V "each culled badger carries a bounty on its head"; absurd waste of money

Rooting and flashing your device does not void the warranty in EU -http://bit.ly/QuuZPL rather important decision, I think

There Are 250,000 Active Patents That Impact Smartphones; Representing 1 In 6 Active Patents Today - http://bit.ly/U9vvXn thicket thickens

The really cheap #Android tablets are coming - http://bit.ly/T30NNO cheap as in $50; and it won't stop there...

The biggest bad news for Google: Motorola’s $527M Q3 operating loss kneecapped its earnings - http://tnw.co/Qx9KdY still a good move?

Dutch Propose Powers For Police To Break Into Computers, Install Spyware & Destroy Data -- Anywhere In The World - http://bit.ly/QuN3sW nuts

If You Explain Many Ways That Artists Can Make Money Outside Of Copyright, You're Against Artists Getting Paid - http://bit.ly/RXWxwe

UK's year of drought and flooding unprecedented, experts say -http://bit.ly/PEBTF9 & no one saw it com- oh, wait...