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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130423 - http://bit.ly/17W6nZf yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Double Blow Against Freedom Of Speech For #Twitter Users In #Turkey - http://bit.ly/14Olgy2 not good

British culture should be seen as commodity, says Maria Miller - http://bit.ly/12Hj3kl well, course, everything's a commodity, no? #nhs

Against freedom - http://bit.ly/12Hj6N4 India's decision 2 partner with #microsoft will cost it dear through future lock-in (v @koolhead17)

El negocio farmacéutico tampoco es transparente - http://bit.ly/10yGoa2 why we must have clinical trials as #opendata (v @DaHammerstein)

How Ministry of Justice’s proposal for the tendering of criminal legal aid is misconceived & illiberal - http://bit.ly/17W7rfw dogma-led

Supreme Court justices tackle Texas-Oklahoma #water fight - http://bit.ly/15G6xV6 this will become common

Adopt an MP (in #newzealand) to educate them about #TPP - http://bit.ly/15G6PLP "to tackle their local MP on the subject of the TPP"

U.S. sues Novartis over alleged fraudulent kickbacks - http://bit.ly/ZO4ztD oh look, more Bad Pharma....

Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? a Tool to Help You Find Out - http://bit.ly/Y3au3K churnalism in US (v @newsbrooke)

Public Domain Human Genome Project Generated More Research And More Commercial Activity Than Proprietary Competitor – http://bit.ly/11BcyhQ

Richtlinie über Fluggast-Daten: EU-Innenausschuss stimmt gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung von Reisenden - http://bit.ly/YO50ow great news #EU

A&E patients 'being left on trolleys in corridors' - http://bit.ly/12Hq8RV #NHS privatisation will make this far worse... #UK

A reference article for the Communications Data bill - http://bit.ly/141pqlt people waking up to the dangers (v @julianhuppert)#snoopers

E-Commerce Giant Alibaba Works With Chinese Government to Bring Down Piracy in China - http://bit.ly/17hKJx7 seeking respectability? #china

Will the EU Parliament Let #TAFTA Turn Into Another #ACTA? - http://bit.ly/17Wfh8T big vote tomorrow - pl. contact your MEPs

No EU PNR before Data Protection Rules are firmly in place - http://bit.ly/13u6RlE good news, but maybe not definitive (v @kaatje36)

Abgeordnete begraben EU-Fluggastdatensystem - http://bit.ly/ZOfsvB well, let's hope so... #privacy #surveillance

Why is Reuters puzzled by global warming's acceleration? - http://bit.ly/17RwfCu one of the clearest explanations of today's #climatechange

Putting the evidence back into evidence based medicine - http://bit.ly/YOBRJQ #ESHLSG behaving badly #alltrials (v @bengoldacre)

UK may withdraw from European rights convention over Abu Qatada - http://bit.ly/ZIiS7e "temporary withdrawal": how pathetic is that?

Urgent: Please Write to Your MPs About Snooper's Charter - http://bit.ly/12gq9Lt let's add to the pressure building to kill it #uk

Hack the Police! - http://bit.ly/14P1en2 original sense of "hack": "Bring your unique talents to the fight against crime!" #opendata

Internet on TV, TV on Internet: EU seeks views on rapidly converging audiovisual world - http://bit.ly/13urGgX don't turn the Net into TV

Deborah Blum on science writing: I'm a neurotic over-researcher - http://bit.ly/ZIuh6O interesting points (v @Stephen_Curry)

Spain's #opensource centre publishes model for desktop cost savings - http://bit.ly/ZIxvas handy

Building foundation for an Open Data Directory - http://bit.ly/Y46Wy6 "central entry point to #OpenData related resources"; comments pl.

Civil society participation in drafting the UK National Action Plan – has it been worth it? - http://bit.ly/ZOzmXq you be the judge

#Openaccess science news is mostly good, with a bit of ugly - http://ars.to/YPEFX8 handy summary of what's been happening

yeah! Let's flood our public spaces with lots of "clean", porn-free WiFi - http://bit.ly/Y4c2ud stupid, unworkable idea, ably debunked

Gletscherschmelze: Alpen werden zur Seenlandschaft - http://bit.ly/10zsswc well, obvs

Finding Proxima Centauri - http://bit.ly/14PdeVy nice tale

Bureau Of Economic Analysis Shows Why #Copyright Terms Should Be Greatly Diminished - http://bit.ly/ZqF5YX fascinating analysis

Libel Reform – smells like victory - http://bit.ly/144a4MP nice summary. kudos to everyone that made this happen #UK

Facebook, Microsoft and BCS back government funding for UK computer science teaching - http://bit.ly/15H140m ORLY? (v Paolo Vecchi)

Free education on a hard drive to boost #Kenya in a tech-driven world - http://red.ht/17ipqeU great idea, showing power of #openness

SAP Africa Workforce to Double as Oil-Rich States Courted - http://bloom.bg/11kAPH3 only 2 fight neocolonialism & corruption, no? (v @mjasay)

When Corruption Fails: Hollywood Has 'Turned Off The Critical Thinking Functions Of Many Democrats' - http://bit.ly/Y4vNln sickening

Milestone Supreme Court Decision for #WikiLeaks Case in Iceland - http://bit.ly/Y4wewe #VISA blockade slapped down - quite right, too

#Google: That #Mozilla Penalty Only Impacted One Page Out Of 22 Million - http://selnd.com/10zMZAW #spam (v @stshank)

"Foreign citizens visiting #Israel may be asked 2 open their email accounts for airport security" - http://bit.ly/ZJ0JGe (v @jilliancyork)

Urgent: Please Write to MEPs Now about #TAFTA/#TTIP - http://bit.ly/17iINo9 important vote tomorrow: here's what we need #opendrafts #EU

Fake bomb detectors and the latest casualties of corruption - http://bit.ly/ZNjZPN lack of #transparency costs money & lives

Brussels ready to make concessions to untangle EU-India trade pact - http://bit.ly/11CREPm panicking much?

Frictionless Data: making it radically easier to get stuff done - http://bit.ly/XXlIEN "radical improvements in “logistics” of data"

Illegal procurement favouring #Microsoft in Portugal killed in the courts - http://bit.ly/15M5XF9 fab news (v @RuiSeabra)

Schweiz: Petition “Nein zum Überwachungsstaat!” - http://bit.ly/11EqDtG yay, #switzerland

Net freedom organizations urges #W3C to reject Encrypted Media Extensions, a proposal to build #DRM into the Web – http://bit.ly/Y4ViDn