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Library of Congress Acquires Entire Twitter Archive - 14 April 2010 - 0 views

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    The tittle seems clear. The US Library of Congress has announced plans to digitally archive all the billions of messages sent on Twitter since its launch four years ago. A lot of reactions can be observed. If interested, two others links right here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/library-of-congress-acquires-entire-twitter-archive/ http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/15/2873163.htm
Anne Zozo

Post Tech - Internet privacy comes to head; Facebook to change tools, Google accused o... - 0 views

  • "Thanks to both Google and Facebook, we have all the elements of a perfect privacy storm," said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of privacy group, the Center for Digital Democracy. "There are organized and spontaneous consumer protests; investigations by officials on both sides of the Atlantic, and a Congress finally waking up to this issue.
  • He has complained that regulators and lawmakers haven't been tough enough on Internet search engines, social networks and publishers for scarfing up user information to monetize into ads.
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    Article sums up the news around Facebook and Google Street View of the last weeks. The sleeping issue of privacy is said to have woken up. The U.S. Congress as well as the Federal Communications Commission and a Federal Trade Commission are asked to take action.
lacey walker

US Library of Congress to archive all Twitter Messages since site's launch - 0 views

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    Even though people are aware that when they tweet it is public record, but most would assume that these tweets were not being documented. Will people censor what they say once they know it is going to be on printed public record?
César Albarrán Torres

All your Twitter belongs to the Library of Congress | Richard Adams | World news | guar... - 0 views

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    Wait a minute....
Amit Kelkar

Will Congress Take Sides on Net Neutrality? | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) - 1 views

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    A fair amount has been written about the politics of net neutrality, but its technical aspects have generally pushed the debate to the fringes of the mainstream press.
Bujuanes Livermore

US to unveil new superfast broadband policy - 0 views

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    -US to aim for internet speeds of 100Mbps -Same as the Rudd Government's network -Congress will be asked to provide billions THE US is set to follow Australia in a bid to introduce superfast broadband to millions of homes within the next ten years. A new internet policy to be unveiled this week includes the goal of boosting domestic broadband speeds to 100Mbps - more than 25 times the current average.
César Albarrán Torres

Conservative Blogger Urges Obama Assassination on Twitter - DailyFinance - 0 views

  • As Congress entered the final round of debate Sunday over the controversial health insurance reform bill, a self-described conservative blogger used his public Twitter account to urge the assassination of President Barack Obama. U.S. Secret Service spokesperson Max Milien confirms to DailyFinance: "We are aware of the actual posting and are actively investigating." A request for comment from a Twitter spokesperson hasn't been returned.See full article from DailyFinance: http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/the-secret-service-is-investigating-a-conservative-bloggers-oba/19408303/?icid=sphere_copyright
  • Forell's tweets used the Twitter "hashtag" of "#tcot" -- which stands for "top conservatives on twitter." That's a list of conservatives on Twitter. Using such a filter makes it easy to find tweets by anyone who uses that tag (#tcot, in this case) to search Twitter.See full article from DailyFinance: http://srph.it/dCqW2m
  • "Let us all renounce the harsh rhetoric about the POTUS [president of the U.S.]. Several, including myself, hv used inappropriate language. Let's remain civil! #tcot."See full article from DailyFinance: http://srph.it/dCqW2m
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    "Let us all renounce the harsh rhetoric about the POTUS [president of the U.S.]. Several, including myself, hv used inappropriate language. Let's remain civil! #tcot." See full article from DailyFinance: http://srph.it/dCqW2m
Qi Li

Congress Approves Final Changes to Health Reform - 0 views

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    This is a blog on Obama's campaign website"www.mybarackobama.com". It is celebrating the passage of the new health-care bill as well as stressing the significant meaning of this new act.
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