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When Dolphins Fight Back

The RIAA once infamously likened it's campaign of lawsuits against individual filesharers, which has included suits against clearly innocent grandparents, p…

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US Myspace Libel Case

C-Net is reporting that a school principal in the US state of Pennsylvania has filed a libel suit against four ex-students who, he alleges, harmed his reputatio…

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diagram of a blog

Very clever Op-Art from Paula Scher and the NYT (hat tip to Diane)…

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Blogging Code of Conduct

Lots of buzz on the internets today about Tim O'Reilly's proposed Blogging Code of Conduct...  My opinion: It's about damn time. The conversation r…

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DRM-free music from Apple & Microsoft

Apple has announced it would offer DRM-free music through iTunes. The offer is limited to the music catalog of one of the Major Labels, EMI. Customers still ca…

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Free software and Public Administration

From the Italian Association for Free Software (Associazione Software Libero) a press release about a case concerning free software and Public Administration &…

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Anger and video games

This is the first discussion of this oft-emotional topic that I feel corresponds to my first hand experience... "Study finds stable personalities unaffecte…

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The banality of heroism

Philip Zimbardo: "Heroes come in two main casts; life-long heroes, like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and heroes of the moment…