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Fantastic use of Google Maps by protesting students in the U.K. to outwit police/authorities...certainly connects to Little Brother scenario.

The down side to Google owning everything..

The Internet can be a hostile place, with powerful companies paying handsome sums to hide negative content in Google search results or any quest for information that might hurt their bottom line. Unseen battles are waged every day to protect and destroy brands and reputations.

Website for Native Public Media. From their mission statement: "Native Public Media Strengthening and Expanding the Voice of Native America The struggle of Native America has long been the struggle for freedom.  Fundamentally, the freedoms that are so important to all Americans are the same freedoms that are important to Native people:  to be able to make our voices heard and make our own decisions about issues affecting our lives, our health, our safety, our governments, and our homes.  The effort to secure these freedoms, however, has time and again been undercut by a centuries-long legacy of economic and cultural exploitation and the resulting socio-economic conditions that have long kept Native people poor and powerless. " Found by googling "public media"

Website for "Arizona Public Media" (notice that this name is a registered trademark!). I found this by googling "public media"....

Not much on this site yet, but I found it by googling "public media". This is most of the text on the site: "The new Public Media Service will be based in Los Angeles and will involve the testing and development of a new radio and multimedia service directed to an ethnically diverse and underserved 25-40 year-old demographic and, initially, will target the fastest-growing population group in the region, Latinos."

A public relations/advertising outfit called "Public Media" (found by googling "public media" oddly enough...); from their welcome screen: "PUBLIC MEDIA is all about the client. Our production division, PUBLIC MEDIA and our advertising division, MAKE WAVES, create success for our clients by using new and traditional advertising, marketing, design and production techniques in creative and cost effective ways."

Is google a monopoly?

Using AdWords to test out possible book titles.

Eli Pariser discusses why and how online gatekeepers like Google and Facebook filter content, often giving users local, feel-good "information junkfood" that doesn't expand their world or challenge their point of view.

Book about copying culture...released under CC offered up for more copying.

A post by Doctorow discussing the "the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a secretive global copyright being privately negotiated by rich countries away from the UN"