Wednesday, 5 June 2013

130604


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130603 - http://bit.ly/13C5LnE yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Foxconn taking #Firefox OS to tablets, not just phones - http://cnet.co/18KDcI3 exciting #mozilla

EU-Kommission will Gentechnik-Mais SmartStax zulassen - http://bit.ly/ZKawhT how can they criticise Seralini when #EFSA fails like this?

Everyone at #Bilderberg, the world’s most elite conference - http://bit.ly/11B0wSd the rich plot to get richer

Censored in #China: ‘Today,’ ‘Tonight’ and ‘Big Yellow Duck’ - http://nyti.ms/13C8RrP fascinating (v @Journotopia @asteris)

Have 1.5 million adults really “stumbled across” online child porn? - http://bit.ly/14qW9Lp brilliant debunking of pernicious #FUD

Pharma firms face EU fines for delaying cheaper drugs - http://bit.ly/18PDy2D no more "pay for delay" - quite right #generics

NZ Sky City: Future Governments not bound by current deal - lawyer - http://bit.ly/11eXUJT but #TPP will change all that #newzealand

Open Sourcing the UK's Operating System - http://bit.ly/19Exgle #BSI behaving badly #openlaw

Eight bronze age boats surface at Fens creek in record find - http://bit.ly/12qFvkJ wonderful how stuff like this keeps turning up

President Obama Comes Out Strongly Against Patent Trolls; Here Are The Details - http://bit.ly/17lEvz6 seems promising

The Pleas in Law of the Spanish Actions against the Unitary Patent Regulations - http://bit.ly/11BUVuP potentially big for #UnitaryPatent

Lawmakers clash in public over draft EU data protection law - http://bit.ly/10O4IT5 doesn't look good #privacy

Malay business group says no to free trade deal, wants debate in Parliament - http://bit.ly/10O4QCc resistance to #TPP from unusual source

Turkish Prime Minister Blames Twitter For Mass Social Unrest, Because It Sure Beats Blaming Himself - http://bit.ly/1b0ykhg well put #tr

Cops Beat Woman Holding a Toddler After Her Friend Videotaped Them - http://bit.ly/13j1YwF no comment necessary

June 4th: The Struggle Of Memory Against Forgetting - http://bit.ly/13Ddfqv #BigYellowDuck #china

#Google Will Soon Launch Google Web Designer, A Free #HTML5 Development Tool For Creating Web Apps, Sites And Ads - http://tcrn.ch/18RAqmK

Bradley Manning generates more sympathy abroad - http://bit.ly/11j1Hqo interesting point (v @suigenerisjen)

24 hours to end the drug war in the Americas! - http://bit.ly/11Cqvse time for a new approach #epetition

Microsoft's Attack On Used Game Sales Asks Customers To Sacrifice Their Rights To Save An Industry - http://bit.ly/135tmMX

The Future of Creative Commons - http://bit.ly/19GbCwN "lays out priorities for each area in which we work" #cc

#MPAA: Oh, Of Course We Want To Help The Blind Read More... Just As Long As You Don't Touch Copyright - http://bit.ly/16HAyFN pathetic

Bill Gates Backs "Open Science" Social Network ResearchGate - http://bit.ly/13DrA6y 1st #opendata, now #openscience, #opensource soon...?

African groups reject G8 corporate food plan as "colonialism" - http://bit.ly/17YbryB cynical and shameless action by West

ISDS: "foreign corporations could challenge #NewZealand laws & regulations that undermine their expected profits" - http://bit.ly/11CyCoK

White House Also Releases Report On Patent Problems - http://bit.ly/135Nmz1 building momentum #patenttrolls

US opposes safeguards in WIPO treaty for the #blind that are included in ACTA, and Beijing treaty - http://bit.ly/18M2oOn just evil

Court Says Copying Journal Articles To Show Prior Art In Patent Proceedings Is Fair Use - http://bit.ly/11jfbT3 good sense prevails


Tuesday, 4 June 2013

130603


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130602 - http://bit.ly/11lFSty yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Russland verlangt Fluggastdaten aus EU-Ländern - http://bit.ly/13fkrtY steps down a slippery path (v @JanAlbrecht)

Work in progress: #Sanskrit #Wikipedia - http://bit.ly/11lGb7w great idea; note to self: must learn sanskrit (v @sankarshan)

Suppressed By The BBC - http://bit.ly/ZnEExc #BBC decides to emulate its Turkish counterparts... #fail

R.I.P Atul Chitnis : The Man Who Changed the Open Source World - http://bit.ly/11lGOhy I didn't know him, but clearly a loss #india

Study calls for proper reporting of experiments - http://bit.ly/ZnFfPm hardly too much to ask (v @MLBrook)#plos

Anonymous lays out plan for its independent news site, funded by $55,000 from Indiegogo - http://tnw.co/18LqB9P intriguing

Activismo Digital en el #Perú - http://bit.ly/15wkT81 useful update on what's going on there

Foxconn Adopts #Firefox OS - http://mzl.la/18LrnUj not unexpected, but still big news #smartphones #tablets #mozilla

ARM announces processors, antipiracy chips at Computex - http://cnet.co/15wm8UR #ARM joins in the stupid

The Past, Present and Future of Sensor #Journalism - http://bit.ly/13fnfaB nice concept

China blocks encrypted version of Wikipedia ahead of June 4 Tiananmen anniversary - http://tnw.co/11cDQHS Middle Kingdom frightened of bits

Connecticut first state to require #GM labeling - http://bit.ly/14avwOe will the floodgates open now? #US

Hipsters - http://bit.ly/11lIwj1 nice #xkcd

Lions bred to be shot in South Africa's 'canned hunting' industry - video - http://bit.ly/11lK9Nm these pathetic "people" are just sick

LobbyPlag meldet sich zurück - http://bit.ly/10LjFFz yay #EU #lobbying

Seven rhinos killed by #poachers in #Kenya's bloodiest week - http://bit.ly/14nMHs8 sickening: we must all do more

Roundup of #occupygezi - http://bit.ly/19BH1k0 #erdogan has really blown this big time

Investor privileges in EU-US trade deal threaten public interest & democracy - http://bit.ly/11QBuo9 main threat of #TAFTA/#TTIP: fight it

Bradley Manning’s case is about more than freedom of speech - http://bit.ly/1aVift5 good analysis

NHS waiting times getting longer due to cuts, health chiefs warn - http://bit.ly/11gy88U gosh, look: more evidence #NHS is being destroyed

Lobbying – a legitimate exercise? - http://bit.ly/11yYHoE this completely ignores the asymmetries of #lobbying (v @ALTEREU)

Sky Broadband Starts Blocking Pirate Bay Proxies - http://bit.ly/10LyO9M waste of time and effort #UK

Introducing the OKF French-speaking community! - http://bit.ly/ZHdvaT nice move #fr

Software Livre em xeque no Paraná - http://bit.ly/12puY9x #microsoft strikes back #brazil

Leaked mandate for EU-US trade deal opens floodgate to lawsuits by corporations - http://bit.ly/13zGz13 this must be removed #TAFTA/#TTIP

The Status of Fisheries in #China: How deep will we have to dive to find the truth? - http://bit.ly/10LEtg5 important question (v @BoraZ)

EU Positions on investor-to-state dispute settlement - http://bit.ly/11zbpE3 more people waking up to the danger #TAFTA/#TTIP

“Irish SOPA” To Receive First Test in Pirate Bay Blocking Case - http://bit.ly/18MoD9g important case #ie

"fin du moratoire sur les OGM, la libéralisation des services publics, menace sur les libertés numériques" - http://bit.ly/11drDTp #TAFTA

SCOTUS: Police can take DNA sample without warrant - http://bit.ly/14bldt6 not "identifying", "defining" (v @alexanderhanff @cypherpunks)

UN report: The link between State #surveillance and #freedom of expression - http://bit.ly/15yzXSx good to see

Once Again, Convenience Trumps Free, As Few People Pirate Arrested Development - http://bit.ly/13gvKSL such a key point

El Acuerdo de Asociación Transpacífico en la política comercial chilena - http://bit.ly/11mGWNG detailed review of #TPP #chile

France Ready To Shut Down #Hadopi As It's 'Incompatible' With Digital Economy - http://bit.ly/17jeC34 "a colossal failure"

U.K. innovators use technology to make the world better, faster - http://bit.ly/ZoC4a5 #google doles out the dosh for good causes

Civilizations Beyond Earth: A Different Angle - http://bit.ly/14bNwHV fascinating ruminations

Taiwanese Users Thwart Government Plans to Introduce Internet Blacklist Law - http://bit.ly/17TlIfE yay, well done people #tw #copyright

This American Life Followup On Patents Reveals Intellectual Ventures Is Even Slimier Than Previously Believed - http://bit.ly/1aXjHuS wow

Documents: #Exxon Mobil Lied & Downplayed Contamination from Pipeline Rupture - http://bit.ly/11dYirT well, there's a surprise #tarsands


Monday, 3 June 2013

130602


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130601 - http://bit.ly/10IAUan yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Brazil: Prisoners Get Four Days Off Sentence Per Book Read - http://bit.ly/11MQsva brilliant idea (v @ircpresident @pranesh_prakash)

Little Brother Is Watching You - http://nyr.kr/1aQkI8a interesting history of #sousveillance

Why a Great Wave of Nostalgia Is Sweeping Through #China - http://nyr.kr/17LVUBS fascinating (v @abc1230 @isaac)

Microsoft Assigns Six Patents to Patent Troll Vringo -- Is This an Antitrust Issue? - http://bit.ly/11jREog good question

ISP liability and the right to oblivion: a recent Spanish ruling - http://bit.ly/18GYING interesting case #google #spain

A&E crisis leads to surge in cancelled operations - http://bit.ly/13cQN8P tory destruction of #NHS continues apace

#Venezuela Goes For Law Against Transgenic Seeds - http://bit.ly/15sDf9s interesting

Dutch Supreme Court: Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 does not infringe on iPad design - http://bit.ly/16AvOBF what a waste of time #apple

Round Table on Responsible Soy ignores demand for non-GM - http://bit.ly/11MU3cO #WWF loses all credibility supporting #RTRS

Aaron Swartz: hacker, genius… martyr? - http://bit.ly/11MWgVE nothing new, but well written and fair in its judgments

50 Industry Groups Form a New Alliance to  Manipulate Public Opinion About Junk Food, GMOs, and Harmful Additives - http://bit.ly/19yFZFF

Experts warn Myanmar about risks with investment treaties - http://bit.ly/18IN47w more wake up to investor-state dispute threat

Crowdfunding a tool to enable oceanography for the masses: OpenCTD - http://bit.ly/10Rbhkz fab project

#Lobbying row deepens as Lord Laird denies breach of rules - http://bit.ly/ZDuomA the rot goes deep

Too many MPs are wrapped in the tentacles of the lobbyists - http://bit.ly/18H8wHq putting it mildly #lobbying

Global Sharing Day Begins - http://bit.ly/15sMrKW share nicely...

Tiger Stripes of Enceladus - http://bit.ly/12of3bv just beautiful #space

Why did the Neanderthals die out? - http://bit.ly/11aPB1D has something to do with #Facebook, apparently...

#Turkey: “A Tree Dies, A Nation Rises”  - http://bit.ly/12olBqo useful update on what happened this weekend #occupygezi

Quick list: Problems for Free Software in #Romania - http://bit.ly/15sLG5a we've been here before...

Steelie Neelie brandishes the #netneutrality wand - http://bit.ly/13wfBHJ good analysis of possible shift

Mail on Sunday's mysterious story of Downing Street love affair - http://bit.ly/11khqbK what fun, even if it's only the Mail... #UK

How Vinegar Could Save 73,000 Women A Year From Cancer - http://onforb.es/10J6vZz great story #health

Watch Out for the Coming #TAFTA/#TTIP "Science-Based" Negotiating Trick - http://bit.ly/11fjBuf sullying the name of #science #opendata

Resentment against Erdogan explodes - http://econ.st/1496zCG @TheEconomist on #turkey (v @MarietjeD66)

Iterations: From Amazon Prime To Amazon Pronto, The Future Of Physical Delivery - http://tcrn.ch/14lkQsL eeek, horribly attractive

Turkish demonstrations expose government influence over media - http://bit.ly/17gpdvJ good point #turkey

#ChuckNorris battles genetically modified foods - http://bit.ly/11kJoUO wow, no wonder #monsanto is giving up... (v @carlzimmer @WyoWeeds)

UK bid to reach deal on Assange's future - http://bit.ly/18HHb8b but what? (v @wikileaks)

Thousands march for rights in rare #Ethiopia protest - http://reut.rs/18K4UHc whoa, interesting world we live in... (@shaistaAziz @kaatje36)

Coalition energy policy 'threatens to destroy environmental case for #HS2' - http://bit.ly/11xJCnt total shambles #UK

#Copyright #Monopoly Enforcement Today Is A Mass Psychosis - http://bit.ly/11bJ9Hx "There is a word for this: neophobia"

#Prague evacuated, state of emergency as floods grip #Czech Republic - http://bit.ly/11bKAWB worrying (v @iva_jem @ronpatz)


Sunday, 2 June 2013

130601


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130531 - http://bit.ly/17cPdb9 yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

#Art And #Copyright In The Age Of Compulsive Looking - http://bit.ly/Zkf8cd re-inventing art galleries for digital world

Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter & Yahoo Refuse To Cooperate With UK's 'Snooper's Charter' - http://bit.ly/14h86Dh UK plan in tatters

Patrick Mercer MP signed a contract with a bogus #lobbying company - http://bit.ly/14h8Ecj just the start (v @Spinwatch)#transparency

Mes Aynak: #Afghanistan's Buddhist buried treasure faces destruction - http://bit.ly/10GbJ8C finely-written report

Labour calls Parliamentary vote on #badger cull - http://bit.ly/10GbQ3U "leading scientists warning against “untested and risky approach” "

RT @smulets Photos taken by #OccupyGezi activists http://occupygezipics.tumblr.com >>amazing pix (v @Glinner)

British taxpayers to pay 'millions' towards secretive #Bilderberg meeting security - http://bit.ly/13a72Du er, why? (v @Spinwatch)

IE10 blows past IE7 and IE6′s combined market share, Firefox gains too, but Chrome hits 21-month low - http://tnw.co/17HK2ks

Dolphins gain unprecedented protection in India - http://bit.ly/17cSKWS wow, hugely impressed with #India leading the way here

Mouldering city built of bread is a metaphor for Earth without humans - http://bit.ly/19vEkjT striking

California Shipping Lanes Moved in Attempt to Avoid Killing Whales - http://bit.ly/17HPmUN good news; maybe scout drones could be used here

Humaneness of #badger cull to be judged on noise of dying animals - http://bit.ly/11JUbK0 UK gov plans not just ineffective, but sick, too

Consumer rights groups: #TPP to hurt consumers - http://bit.ly/118z4uU waking up to problems: big business benefits mainly (v @DrRimmer)

By 2050, one in five Africans will live in #Nigeria - http://bit.ly/10PmwcY worth thinking about... #africa

Is there a Social-Media Fueled Protest Style? An Analysis From #jan25 to #geziparki - http://bit.ly/11ibrnQ superb analysis of #turkey now

Ontario wins important victory in $50-billion lawsuit against #tobacco firms - http://bit.ly/146HI2k great news (v @howardknopf)#canada

Crowd-funded Stenographers Denied Press Passes to the Bradley Manning Court Martial - http://bit.ly/15rocgf shabby obstructionism


Saturday, 1 June 2013

130531


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130530 - http://bit.ly/14db8sm yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Groups warn #TAFTA/#TTIP could weaken consumer laws ‘via the backdoor’ - http://bit.ly/179ZG7p not "could", this is one of its real aims

Code for America's Jennifer Pahlka to Take a Year-Long "Fellowship" as Deputy U.S. CTO - http://bit.ly/13oWLlS probably a good sign

FBI and New Zealand police ordered to return all personal data seized from #Megaupload - http://tnw.co/116ikV7 another defeat for US #NZ

Ugandans Fight for More Time to comply with TRIPS - http://bit.ly/17Cr0vK quite right, too #LDCs #ug

EU moves again on financial disclosure of extractives industries - http://bit.ly/137qJfc great news; UK on wrong side of history again

School sexual abuse protester Ye Haiyan beaten up in her own home - http://bit.ly/1429Q6U awful (v @LetaHong @isaac)#china

NASA Confirms That Curiosity Found An Ancient Martian Stream - http://onforb.es/11sC59l exciting #science

Wheat drops as Japan suspends U.S. imports on modified crops - http://bit.ly/116jrV3 #TPP will make that impossible: wake up, #Japan

Ergonomic advice from the 17th century - http://bit.ly/142bcyn "cutting-edge 17th century advice on penmanship and ergonomics"; lovely

EU Mandate For #TAFTA Leaked: Includes Investor-State Dispute Resolution For Intellectual Monopolies - http://bit.ly/137rTax big, bad news

Open-Source House Building - http://bit.ly/15iaoVT great to see people exploring this (v @slashdot)

Corporations and Law Enforcement Are Spying on Environmentalists - http://bit.ly/142c6er redefining protests as domestic terrorism

A 22-Year-Old Woman Is About to Die for the Sake of a Fetus With No Chance of Survival - http://bit.ly/15iblO0 El Salvador's barbarism

Developing a unified rule for openness: Interview with Alek Tarkowski - http://bit.ly/14dlQiu exciting moves in #Poland; great interview

Gallery of Honour competition to spread free knowledge in #Russia - http://bit.ly/18DeiK9 great

Vrijschrift wijst mandaat voor onderhandelingen met Verenigde Staten over handelsverdrag af - http://bit.ly/15nXTHK bad stuff #TAFTA/#TTIP

Internet pornography: never again - http://bit.ly/116NBaF sad to see this ignorant, kneejerk reaction from @guardian, a new low for them

Spies need more oversight, not new powers - http://bit.ly/16vSmDq thoughtful, knowledgeable analysis #surveillance

MI5 failures over Woolwich probably 'misjudgement' not lack of snoopers' charter, says Sir Chris Fox - http://bit.ly/18E0YW6 good to hear

The NFB/MPAA statement - http://bit.ly/ZiXs0o it's a trick: the #MPAA is still kicking the #blind...

useful update on what happened in EU on clinical trials transparency - http://bit.ly/138eZt4 some progress, more work needed #opendata

Sharks Worth More for Tourism Than in Soup - http://bit.ly/19tom9W let's hope people realise this fast (v @BoraZ)

IP Commission: Cut Off WHO Funding If It Doesn't Make IP Protection Priority One - http://bit.ly/ZyA3um more callousness from maximalists

China hopes for transparent US-led TPP talks - http://bit.ly/13qrjDG wow, #china as champion of openness (v @maira)#TPP

Tumorous rats, GM contamination, and hidden conflicts of interest - http://bit.ly/15p5ndm this is turning into quite a saga #transparency

The LDC #TRIPS Transition Extension and the Question of Rollback - http://bit.ly/13qvgIu "no roll-back" is evil #LDCs

Imaging Breakthrough: See Atomic Bonds Before and After Molecular Reaction - http://bit.ly/11cfYoT wow #science (v @slashdot)

#Kazakhstan: Archeologists Unearth “Princess of the #Scythians” - http://bit.ly/11tBF2D fascinating culture

The Water Story - http://bit.ly/11gDhRr why #Hittite wa-a-tar fits right in with húdōr, wæter, vatn and vanduõ #linguistics #indoeuropean

Canadian #ACTA Compliance Bill Inches Forward - http://bit.ly/17bpnnW what a waste of time and effort

Anhörung zu Softwarepatenten im Rechtsausschuss des Bundestag - http://bit.ly/11tJ6H8 could anything really come of this? #swpats

#Android now owns half of #China's smartphone market - http://cnet.co/12U9ZGC impressive

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum Does Digital Archives Right -- Hi-Res Downloads & A Suite Of Online Editing Tools - http://bit.ly/11gEGHV exemplary

Who is the Chinese developer building a new billion dollar financial district in #London? - http://bit.ly/16wGXDr good question #china

Australian Spies Want To Hack Tor After Realizing It Routes Around Their #Surveillance - http://bit.ly/17FuMV2 getting worse & worse #AU

Acuerdo Transpacífico: La negociación comercial que podría aumentar los costos médicos en Chile - http://bit.ly/11ICPgy oh yes #TPP


Friday, 31 May 2013

130530


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130529 - http://bit.ly/18xcSUa yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

EFF Makes Formal Objection to #DRM in #HTML5 - http://bit.ly/12j3d2n nice move; sad to see @timberners_lee on the wrong side of this

Afghanistan war has cost Britain more than £37bn, new book claims - http://bit.ly/Zv0ctR for nothing; imagine it spent on A&E depts...

Reporters Tell Attorney General Eric Holder They Won't Agree To 'Off The Record' Meeting - http://bit.ly/10BDE9v quite right

RT @NeelieKroesEU:"you saved their right to access the open internet, by guaranteeing #netneutrality" - http://bit.ly/18xhiud but how?

EU Clinical trials: clearer rules, better protection - http://bit.ly/16ruKjl looks like progress is being made towards #opendata

Number of ambulances turned away from A&E increases by 24% - http://bit.ly/12jDczM people are probably dying because of this collapse #NHS

New #dataprotection rules at risk, EU watchdog warns - http://bit.ly/Zv30r8 some MEPs betraying their constituents

EU ministers approve crackdown on over-fishing - http://bit.ly/176Uwsz I hope so - we can't go on like this

EU agrees workable deal on fisheries reform to recover fish stocks - http://bit.ly/15kPV27 wow,@GreenpeaceEU approves (v @jonworth)

Imprisoned CIA Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou Pens “Letter from Loretto” - http://bit.ly/16rBoWN well-written, fascinating

#Baidu announces new version of maps that allows friends 2 chat & share their real-time location - http://tnw.co/10JMSND chinese innovation

Innovators, Public Interest Groups & #OpenAccess Supporters Pull Out Of Talks On EU #Copyright In Protest - http://bit.ly/114xryo

EU citizens demand #transparency and independent science on GMOs - http://bit.ly/114ydvx why we must have #opendata from #EFSA

#Taiwan's #Copyright Proposals Would Combine SOPA With A Dash Of The Great Firewall Of #China - http://bit.ly/140zEAg not good

Sources: no Digital Economy Act copyright warning letters until 2016 at earliest - http://bit.ly/18ykPIP useful update (v @copyrightgirl)

why investor-state dispute resolution could sabotage national health efforts on smoking - http://huff.to/18AZn3m big threat (v @PCGTW)#TPP

Witnesses at US Trade Hearing Offer Opinions (& Warnings) on Intellectual Property in Upcoming Negotiations with EU - http://bit.ly/15lt8Dj

Non-GM demand rocketing in US - http://bit.ly/11CMR2R interesting if confirmed #gmlabelling

China to study joining #TPP - http://bit.ly/119M44x since TPP is anti-#china, that would be surprising, to say the least

EU, Canada’s differences over financial services holding up free trade pact: documents - http://bit.ly/13lFzhd grinding on #CETA

Theresa May betrays our values by banning extremists from airwaves - http://bit.ly/11qZcB5 pathetic kneejerk reaction (v @PoliceStateUK)

Massive Growth In Independent Musicians & Singers Over The Past Decade - http://bit.ly/11e1kk5 great analysis

Announcing the Financial #Transparency Coalition - http://bit.ly/12RDGrQ welcome move

#Ubuntu declares bug #1 -- '#Microsoft has a majority market share' -- closed - http://zd.net/19qpKKF what a jester

Latin American Civil Liberties groups urge MEPs to protect #privacy - http://bit.ly/10D2ohN knock-on benefits: just do it #dataprotection

Snooper's charter is threat to Net freedom, web 5 warn May - http://bit.ly/136p8pY kudos to Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo! & Twitter

Computer Scientists Urge Court 2 Block Copyright Claims in Oracle v. Google API Fight - http://bit.ly/12ky4LN (c) for APIs mad (v @webmink)

#CBS Tells Court: No One Could Possibly Read Our Statements 'We Will Sue Aereo' To Mean We Will Sue Aereo - http://bit.ly/12kCQc6 hilarious


Thursday, 30 May 2013

130529


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130528 - http://bit.ly/18t92LK yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

US-EU Trade Deal In Trouble Before It Even Starts? - http://bit.ly/11opdBa will swivel-eyed loons change world history? #TAFTA/#TTIP

BSA-Piraterie-Studie: Leerstelle freie Software - http://bit.ly/17qSrbS further musings thereon #opensource

When the facts don’t fit your argument for snooping, just make them up - http://bit.ly/12NNwen great rebuttal of stupid comments

Il tribunale del riesame di Roma  annulla il decreto di sequestro del  Cyberlocker mondiale  Rapidgator - http://bit.ly/13Ygknh

“Licences4Europe” has not accepted “The Right to Read is the Right to Mine” - http://bit.ly/10zkEbK great polemic #openaccess #textmining

[RT]  Genachowski: Exit Interview - http://on.tnr.com/11vPsvp "The outgoing FCC boss on net neutrality, political polarization, & free speech"

RSA: National Recordal System for Indigenous Knowledge launched - http://bit.ly/19ljW5a interesting move

City of #Munich: "Migration to sustainable desktop completed successfully" - http://bit.ly/12NPw6g hugely important project - kudos to all

Could Crowdfunding Help Build Cities? - http://on.mash.to/1173ejo intriguing

Free David Byrne/St Vincent EP - http://bit.ly/11xyHQz fab

Wild lynx to be brought back to British countryside - http://bit.ly/1122VFj can't wait for wolves & bears too (v @Protohedgehog @edyong209)

Toronto cops hospitalize hotel guest who recorded them arresting another guest - http://bit.ly/1174raf luckily, they were recorded

Testimony Prepared for the USTR Hearing on #TAFTA/#TTIP - http://bit.ly/145xwno good analysis

Danish Police Admit That #DataRetention Hasn't Helped At All - http://bit.ly/10GYqkO great: now we have a data point we can point to #dk

How Long Before A Patent Kills A Hundred Million People? - http://bit.ly/11b5bye worth thinking about #genepatents #influenza

Ireland to introduce plain cigarette packets - http://bit.ly/15a0iq3 kudos; pity #cameron lacks the guts to follow suit #tobacco

#Australia government goes with #ODF document standard - http://bit.ly/15a0ZQd great move #openstandards


More Than 500 Million Photos Are Shared Every Day - http://on.mash.to/10I5I7O we live in the Age of #Sharing #opensource

VP8 cross-license draft compatible with FOSS #licensing - http://bit.ly/10AvwpH hmmm... (v @cdaffara)

Treaty for the #Blind in Jeopardy, #Copyright Zealots to Blame - http://bit.ly/ZeVUo8 but hey, #monopolies before #mercy (v @xpectro)

The Aftermath Of Napster: Letting Incumbents Veto Innovation Slows Down Innovation Drastically - http://bit.ly/18zpfN0 good points

Boris Johnson unveils plan for £1bn Chinese business district - http://bit.ly/11bsWWW bonkers - I like it... (v @ChinaBizWatch)#london

#Assange: latest interviews - http://bit.ly/16pX59L http://bit.ly/10IjOWG not dull, at least

First Crowdfunded #Space Telescope Open to the World - http://on.mash.to/18voVRV lovely idea

Cambridge University Linguists Use Twitter To Study How #Welsh Language Use Is Changing - http://tcrn.ch/Zf2zim fascinating #linguistics

EU Ombudsman: EFSA fails on conflict of interests - http://bit.ly/15aH8QG #EFSA must be reformed if it is to be credible

Dänemark: Internetüberwachung ist unbrauchbar zur Strafverfolgung - http://bit.ly/18zuKLJ important admision #dk

White House Makes It Impossible For The Blind To Sign Petition Supporting Copyright Treaty For The Blind - http://bit.ly/13jyTQv

Days to stop the #whale massacre - http://bit.ly/118jCQo how could any decent human being kill these animals for dogfood? #epetition