[El reconocido y siempre crítico lingüista del MIT, Noam Chomsky, una de las voces más respetadas y consolidadas de la disidencia intelectual durante la última década, ha compilado una lista con las diez estrategias más comunes y efectivas que siguen las agendas "ocultas" para manipular al público a través de los medios de comunicación. ...]

[Steve White, Principal - White SW Computer Law In Australia, copyright protection arises as soon as an original copyright work is created. The copyright laws dictate who the copyright owner is and how long the protection lasts. Copyleft is a form of licensing by which the copyright owner may waive their rights and allow other people to share and make further amendments to the work. The concept of Copyleft is used particularly in relation to software. The idea behind Copyleft is to ensure that an individual cannot take advantage of being able to modify a free software program and then sell the resulting modified program as a new work. In some cases, any modifications made to a Copyleft program must be made freely available to all parties interested in using them. The GNU public licence is an example of a Copyleft licence. ]

The Future is Free or it won't be.

[Debes saber que el marketing, social media o no, siempre va precedido de un estudio previo y de un concienzudo diseño de estrategia con los objetivos y la imagen de marca como estrellas guía. Y eso por supuesto, ahora sí hablando de social media, se plasma en un documento que se conoce como plan estratégico de Social Media Marketing. En realidad es una parte del plan de Marketing Online y en muchos casos es inseparable de él, pero en otros puede existir de manera independiente. Esta premisa, partir de una estrategia y de un diseño elaborado a la medida de la marca es uno de los motivos por los que muchos repetimos que las agencias que venden "paquetes" social media con un precio fijo y contenido predefinido independientemente del cliente, no merecen la consideración de agencias de marketing. ...]

[ From mashable.com - Today, 1:07 PM The Supreme Court rejected a warrantless wiretapping lawsuit in a 5-4 vote Wednesday on the basis the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue. ...]

[Data brokers collect your personal information and post it in public profiles. Here's how to get it removed--either on your own or via a service. ...]

[TuneCore Artist Ariel Rubin has been busy. She ran two successful crowdfunding campaigns in the past two years, and her new group Ariel + The Undertow just released a debut, self-titled record. Ariel took the time to share some great tips with us on how to approach and get the most from a crowdfunding campaign. Whether you're just thinking about starting one yourself, or are already in the middle of one, we think these tips are worth checking out…]

[The Advocacy 2.0 Guide (Tools for Digital Advocacy) describes some of the best techniques and tools that digital activists - and others who wish to learn from this subject - can use as part of their online advocacy campaigns. While our previous guide (Blog for a Cause!) focused on the effective use of blogs as an advocacy tool, this guide will explore creative uses of other web 2.0 applications. ...]

[... Recently, Senator Ron Wyden asked CRS if it could explore the state of the movie industry today as compared to 1995 on a variety of different criteria. You can read the full report embedded below, but here are a few key points. First off, despite the industry's regular attempt to play up its contribution to GDP and employment, the report found that the combined GDP contribution of both the "motion picture and sound recording" industries was a whopping 0.4% in 2009. Back in 1995... it was also 0.4%. ...]

Europe's Digital Agenda 2013

[... How do ways of thinking change through time and space? British anthropologist Jack Goody posed this question in 'The Domestication of the Savage Mind', his 1997 publication covering new forms of communication within society. According to his study a culture which transmits its knowledge orally does not think in the same way as a writing-based culture. ...]

[January 15, 2013 Download PDF version. Read The New York Times article associated with this report. The following individuals contributed to this report: Morgan Marquis-Boire (lead technical research) and Jakub Dalek (lead technical research), Sarah McKune (lead legal research), Matthew Carrieri, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Ron Deibert, Saad Omar Khan, Helmi Noman, John Scott-Railton, and Greg Wiseman. Summary of Key Findings Blue Coat Devices capable of filtering, censorship, and surveillance are being used around the world. During several weeks of scanning and validation that ended in January 2013, we uncovered 61 Blue Coat ProxySG devices and 316 Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances, devices with specific functionality permitting filtering, censorship, and surveillance. ...]

[Cuando de tecnologías de la información (TICs) se trata, en realidad nuestra "lucha" excede ampliamente la frontera del software libre. En realidad, existen por lo menos 4 grandes frentes: hardware libre, software libre, estándares libres y formatos libres. ...]

[This page lists the different lobbies' s documents calling for an extensive definition of personal data, upon the revision of the data protection directive (see the ITRE draft opinion on the Proposal for a General Data Protection Regulation). The indicated month is when the position has been sent to Members of the European Parliament. ]