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How To Design Schools And A New Education System For The Future: A Video Interview With George Siemens How to design schools and a new education system for the future? Is it possible to extract only the positive aspects of the current education paradigm and create a brand new schooling model? Photo credit: Jose Manuel Gelpi Diaz Somehow we have to recognize what is it that ... read more | cat.: Information Access | Link Robin Good -- December 18

The One-Minute Journalist Guide To Understanding The Internet "The Internet makes it possible to communicate directly with those once known as recipients - readers, listeners and viewers - and to take advantage of their knowledge. Not the journalists who know it all are in demand, but those who communicate and investigate." Photo credit: Dmitry Margolin What ... read more | cat.: Information Access | Link Various Authors - Internet Manifesto -- November 11

How To Deceive, Lie And Spread Disinformation: A Guide To The Most Effective Disinformation Tactics What is disinformation? How news media manage to deceive and lie? What you and I can do to recognize misleading sources? In this guide H. Michael Sweeney uncovers the most effective disinformation tactics to help you identify half-truths. Photo credit: Sgame Disinformation is false or inaccurate information ... read more | cat.: Information Access | Link H. Michael Sweeney - WHALE -- August 19

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

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