Stanford Center for Internet and Society

Co-sponsored by the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Future of Privacy Forum (among others), this inaugural "unconference" brings together interested individuals and organizations to share knowledge and foster collaboration. The event is June 20th, 2009, from 8AM to 5PM at the Center for American Progress (1333 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20005). You can register here and Shaun Dakin is the contact should you have any questions.

A friend in the eBay Israel office shared this with me... pretty interesting...

"Debates are communicative exchanges that evolve in time. Their minimal unit consists in a full set of four communicative “turns”, where at least two “speakers” – a ponens (P) and an opponens (O) – intervene in a P-O-P-O pattern.

In May, Free Press released a report titled Saving the News: Toward a National Journalism Strategy. The 48-page document is the most intelligent and comprehensive proposed solution to the crisis in journalism that I have seen, and I urge everyone to read it. The report begins by setting forth its highest priorities in devising a national journalism strategy, including protecting the First Amendment, promoting government accountability, producing quality news coverage, and encouraging innovation. With those principles in mind, the report outlines and critiques a host of proposed solutions, covering everything from micro-payments to a wholesale government bailout. Ultimately, Free Press proposes a multi-faceted approach to addressing the crisis, which blends expansive government funding for public media with legal and tax incentives to promote new ownership and alternative models.

Flickr has been offering users the ability to search by Creative Commons license since mid-2006, and I've been waiting for Yahoo to implement such a feature in their image search for quite a while.