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Reporters Without Borders have published a list of all the names of those imprisoned for cyberdissidence,  China tops the list with 51 known cyberactivists in jail.

 The Machinist is reporting that Search Wikia, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’ new open-source search engine is not living up to the hype.  Wales is the first to admit that there are problems, his goal is an ambitious one:  Jimmy Wales wants people out on the Internet to help build something as complex and useful asContinue reading “Search Wikia gets some bad reviews”

The Federal Communications Commission will investigate complaints that Comcast Corp. actively interferes with Internet traffic as its subscribers try to share files online, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Tuesday.

Sony BMG announced that it would abandon digital rights management software, it will start selling mp3s on Amazon without any copy protections, it is rumored that Steve Jobs is going to announce the same on Tuesday at the MacWorld Expo, which will probably drive the final nail in the DRM coffin.

nettime: In a move that could profoundly reshape the media landscape in France, President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday proposed banning commercials from public television and making up for some of the lost revenue with a first-of-its-kind tax on the Internet and mobile phones.

With the writer’s strike still looming large the NYTimes is hypothesizing about the death of television, particularly because of the popularity of online videos created by out of work actors and writers: Impossible is the Opposite of Possible for one

AT&T et al. may be getting ready to filter digital packets that contain copyrighted material, I say at least wait until the end of season 5 of The Wire…

Facebook’s most recent press release is about all the nifty things groups you can join and applications you can add, don’t forget about the ABC News/Facebook real-time debate activities planned for all the kiddies… On a similar note Jeff Jarvis discusses Obama being elected by the internet..

 Michael Geist has summarized 2007 in alphabetized form.  A  is for Access Copyright (originally published in the Toronto Star)

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will be back to work in the new year with or without writers. The Writers Guild of America (both Colbert & Stewart are members) is accusing Comedy Central of forcing the two hosts back to work, here is what the two fake news casters had to say: “In a statement,Continue reading “We would like to express our ambivalence…”