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March 1, 2010 at 5:50 pm
A very good piece by David Schneiderman on the effect of the internet on journalism. I particularly like his 'Final Perspective', which I think applies to organisations acroos sectors:
"Many of the fundamental, underlying principles of effective public relations remain unchanged by this emerging world without newspapers.
"But make no mistake, the revolution is indeed here.
"And that [...]

May 21, 2009 at 10:01 am
"Downloading music without the permission of the copyright holder should qualify for copyright laws' exemptions for 'fair use', a Harvard academic has said. Partial responsibility lies with the music industry itself for failing to adapt, he said."

Visit Harvard professor says downloading is 'fair use'

May 6, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Excellent post by Tim Davies. He argues that when it comes to governments and large organisations engaging with technology for social change, there is not one big challenge but lots of little ones; and that as those multiply, the ability to engage effectively shrinks. He then lists 50 key challenges that he's encountered so far this year: so now we know they exist we can do something about them; and – hopefully – improve the chances of technology to support social change effectively.

Visit OpenGov: One big challenge? Or a thousand small hurdles

January 16, 2009 at 4:00 am
These are my links for 8 January 2009 through 15 January 2009:

Us Now: A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet – "Us Now is a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet.
Us Now tells the stories of online networks that are challenging the [...]

January 5, 2009 at 7:37 am
These are my links for 4 January 2009 through 5 January 2009:

Adactio: Journal—The Rise of HTML5 –
Simply Google: all of Google's services in one place – This is a nice idea, if it really does what it says. Google is so big now and lots of blogs, services and tools that can be hard [...]