October 2009
1 post
Enligt Min Humla » Saker som ser ut som en tanke →
In Swedish. The law for surveillance went through, the politicans sold out their promises and the public every step of the way. Transparency. Integrity. Accountability. The internet will not forget. We will make sure of that.
September 2009
9 posts
In praise of… Lithuania | FollowTheMoney.eu →
Sarkozy warns Czechs on Lisbon - The Irish Times -... →
SSRN-Toward a Broadband Public Interest Standard... →
Slipping through the net - how EU countries evade... →
Making life hard for journalists at the European... →
Barroso holds his own in spectacular brawl with... →
But watch out for Daniel Cohn-Bendit. He’s got a real mean left jab.
The Telecoms Package - a licence to chill (draft... →
Monica Horten, University of Westminster, Communications and Media Research Institute (CAMRI)
Music industry cooks UK government's piracy stats... →
Google still not fighting subpoena for... →
August 2009
1 post
Bratislava says Solyom will not be allowed to... →
July 2009
9 posts
Anyone can write this crap →
“That is, they’re not taking over the jobs of real journalists, those who do the good and important work. If you’re a “journalist” who writes ill-researched articles on things you don’t understand, or content-free celebrity puff-pieces, or worthless lifestyle articles based on a few of your friends, then you should be worrying.”
[Ben Rooney in the Comments has an interesting view. Is...
RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work... →
EU member states laid aside the advice of their... →
On the future of book publishing →
Someone just sold the Associated Press a bag of... →
Greek Bloggers to give up anonymity? Not without a... →
“I don’t think we’re made more decent and more honest by being bullied by...”
– Stephen Fry on the media industry equalling downloading with stealing handbags, iTunes Live Festival (available as Podgram)
We are under attack...
Nazi Leader Herman Goering, interviewed by Gustave Gilbert during the Easter recess of the Nuremberg trails, 1946 April 18, quoted in Gilbert’s book, Nuremberg Diary:
Goering, “Naturally the common people don’t want war… but it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a...
June 2009
1 post
Sarkozy tries to rescue internet law after court... →
Paris intends to move ahead with sections of its ‘three strikes’ law, stripping out its most controversial aspects following a ruling from France’s Constitutional Court that the bill contravenes the holiest of French documents, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789.
May 2009
1 post
How to spend €10 billion →
The European Commission’s own Financial Transparency System, which publishes data on end beneficiaries of a range of grants and contracts, was launched at the end of 2008, but with a fatal flaw, common to many government data websites. The website only offered a web-form based interface and there was no way to access the entire database, without building a screen-scraper.