Letture in giro per la rete:
- Ground Report Empowers Citizen Journalism with CC Attribution License
Ground Report is a new citizen journalism site that “Empowers Global Users to Self-Publish, Rate Content and Earn Money.” In a move that helps insure user generated content can flourish on the web, they bolster their reputation and community participation by licensing all user-generated content under a CC Attribution license.
- Il mondo si interroga su Wikipedia
Suscitare “emozioni forti” è tipico di chi raggiunge la grande notorietà. Che questo sia il destino di Wikipedia ormai ci sono ben pochi dubbi. Con quasi un milione e 700mila voci in lingua inglese (contro le 120mila della mitica Enciclopedia Britannica), Wiki è lo strumento di consultazione più frequentato dai navigatori, il luogo dove ciascuno può condividere il proprio sapere, metterlo a disposizione degli altri. E proprio qui sta uno dei problemi.
- Free Culture: “Free me”, a DVD about Free Culture
The Free Me DVD is an attempt to help raise awareness of Free Culture. On the disc I have provided loads of different kinds of media – some of it can be played in your DVD player while other bits can be found when you put it in your computer. All of these works have been created and released under less restrictive licenses than the traditional “All Rights Reserved” copyright notice.
- Who Controls Your Television?
An inter-industry organization that creates television and video specifications used in Europe, Australia, and much of Africa and Asia is laying the foundation for a far different future — one in which major content providers get a veto over innovation and consumers face draconian digital rights management (DRM) restrictions on the use of TV content.
- I media italiani usano anche i nazisti per disinformarci
Come mai il segretario dell’UDC Lorenzo Cesa riceve il capo di un gruppuscolo fascista e antisemita venezuelano, coinvolto in passato perfino in un attentato contro papa Wojtyla?
- Brighton crime story shows how far FOI still has to go
Ward-by-ward crime figures are the sort of public data that should be routinely available to the public. There is nothing remotely sensitive about this information, which is inevitably collected by police and is in the public interest to disclose. In an ideal democracy, it wouldn’t really be necessary for a journalist to file a Freedom of Information Act request in order to obtain this data.
La pubblicità pensa di aver rotto chissà quale 
