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nanocr: “After a lot of hard work, we’ve finally released doubleTwist desktop. The goal of doubleTwist is to simplify the flow of media across devices and social networks. To give an example: say you shot a video with your Nokia N95 cellphone. How do you send that video to your friend and make sure he’llContinue reading “Doubletwist Desktop: Say Goodbye to DRM”

The trial of linux programmer turned wife murderer is being live blogged by two reporters: “The Hans Reiser trial has been underway for some time now, the prosecution is moving towards the end of its case. For those interested, not only in the outcome of the trial, but a detailed description of the trial, includingContinue reading “Court TV…uh…I mean court live blogging”

TechDirt is reporting that all the coverage the classic bittorent site is actually increasing its traffic, looks like the Danish ban is doing more harm than good by its standards.

The nytimes has an article about the “stickiness” of facebook profiles, once its out there… its out there: “Some users have discovered that it is nearly impossible to remove themselves entirely from Facebook, setting off a fresh round of concern over the popular social network’s use of personal data.”

nettime: “Matteo Pasquinelli’s recent article “The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage” examines recent practices concerned with licensing as an anti-capitalist tactic and its broader ideological ramifications for dialogs about file sharing and freedom of information, using the ideas of the parasite, cognitive capitalism and offering a strategy of sabotage.” link 

Video remix featuring all the current US political agents of change (although some have dropped out of the race to be head change-master)

“The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it. In order to send a message from one corner of the internet to another, the protocols of communication demand that the whole message be copied along the way severalContinue reading “Better Than Free: Kevin Kelly’s new book”

Researchers from the University of Virginia recently announced that in a study of the top 150 Facebook applications, more than 90% were given access to information that was not needed to function correctly. That Scrabble or Superpoke application you really like? Its developers get access to your religion, sexuality and home town. Facebook’s position wasContinue reading “Surprise of the century: Facebook releases too much user info”

“An article about the Prophet Muhammad in the English-language Wikipedia has become the subject of an online protest in the last few weeks because of its representations of Muhammad, taken from medieval manuscripts” NYTimes

“Filters can be put in the applications for example. You know, one could have a filter on the end user’s computer that would actually eliminate any benefit from…encryption because if you want to hear it, you’d have to decrypt it, and at that point the filter could work.” video