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Europe Under Internet Censorship Threat: New EU Telecom Package Challenges Basic Internet Freedoms If you are an Internet user and are concerned about future control and regulation of your ability to freely access your preferred content and services online, no matter where you live it is now the time for you to stop and understand what the European Parliament ... read more | cat.: Information Access | Link Blackout Europe Team - Blackout Europe -- April 29

Newspaper Industry And Online Business Models: Jeff Jarvis On Why Newspapers Are Doomed To Fail. Quickly The crack in the newspaper industry egg is very deep. The prospect that newspapers are doomed to fail is not anymore an hypothesis. The scarcity-based, top-down, mass-distribution business model adopted so far by the newspaper industry has no hope to survive or extend its agony in ... read more | cat.: Information Access | Link Jeff Jarvis - BuzzMachine -- April 22

How To Blog Anonymously And Maintain Control Of Your Personal Privacy - Guide If you want to cover sensitive issues on your blog, or just keep unwanted readers off your content, here are some specific guidelines on how to blog anonymously while maintaining greater control of your personal privacy. Photo credit: Slobodan Vasic As whistleblowing bloggers keep reporting on stories often ... read more | cat.: Information Access | Link Electronic Frontier Foundation Team - Electronic Frontier Foundation -- April 15

The Paradox Of Web 2.0 - Part 2: What You Really Need To Teach Your Kids The Paradox of Web 2.0 is the realization that the big transformations and changes sweeping the worlds of communication, marketing and new media, from bottom-up participation to sharing and open collaboration are light years ahead and as distant as a far away galaxy from the education ... read more | cat.: Information Access | Link Robin Good - Vance's GeekSpeek -- March 21

The Paradox Of Web 2.0 - Part 1: Is Teaching Equal To Learning? What is the Web 2.0 paradox? It is the living paradox of a society which while it learns and applies fundamental new rules of behaviour and communication thanks to rapid growth of the Internet in many business sectors, it fails yet to have enough moral maturity ... read more | cat.: Information Access | Link Robin Good - Vance's GeekSpeek -- March 20

How Peer Production And The Economic P2P Model Can Subvert The World Of Physical Production Is it true that the same method of peer and open production that has been dominating the world of open source software and freely available (often user-generated) content on the internet, is now also deeply influencing the way we think about designing and even making things? Photo ... read more | cat.: Information Access | Link Michel Bauwens - WE Magazine -- March 6

Net Neutrality: Is The Open Web For Anybody Or Just For Some? The celebrated openness of the Internet in which internet providers are not supposed to give preferential access or treatment to any Internet traffic keeps quietly losing powerful defenders. Photo credit: Norma Cornes Internet providers are still free to sell higher-speed traffic and better overall service levels, but letting ... read more | cat.: Information Access | Link John Blossom - Shore -- January 16

News Content: Newspapers Future Strategy May Be The Aggregation Of News Sources Should news content be the result of the aggregating and selecting from many and varied sources or the word coming from one single perspective? John Blossom analyzes the future of newspapers and openly asks some hard questions in this fascinating and scary article. Photo credit: Paul Turner ... read more | cat.: Information Access | Link John Blossom - Shore -- January 9

How To Be Happy Without Becoming A Monk - 10 Things I Have Changed To Live A More Self-Directed Life This is my small Christmas gift to you: Ten things I have changed in my life and which have provided me with an opportunity to live a richer, happier and more joyful life, one in which I feel gradually more and more in control of where ... read more | cat.: Information Access | Link Robin Good -- December 24

Is Web 2.0 Really Democratic? Web 2.0 has revolutionized the panorama of the information society: users have become information producers and the new web platforms have become relationship venues where new knowledge and ideas emerge. Also the new tools of social networking, social tagging, wikis and blogs enable new forms ... read more | cat.: Information Access | Link Robin Good -- October 10

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