Thursday 28 February 2013

130227


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130226 - http://bit.ly/ZzLg9t yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Supreme Court Effectively Says There's No Way To Challenge Warrantless Wiretapping - http://bit.ly/ZzQ278 where are you going, America?

Change to UK Patents Act Removes Infringement For Use Of #ClinicalTrialData - http://bit.ly/V8eX2B small but welcome change

Downloads don't matter - http://bit.ly/ZzRo1A saith "Game of Thrones" film director David Petrarca #piracy

"immediately make all [#ACTA] documents available to the public." -http://bit.ly/ZI9baw (v @Act_on_Acta @PostActa)#EU

Variety doubles down on digital — drops #paywall in what it calls “end of an error” - http://bit.ly/WqAu34 interesting #publishing

Cabinet Office’s procurement reforms start to pay off - http://bit.ly/WqAGz4albeit slowly #uk

#ITU Sees Busy Year Ahead, Hopes To Overcome Divisions -http://bit.ly/WhkYvu right; so how's that gonna work?

Father Recreates Classic Paintings With Daughter’s Portraits -http://on.mash.to/13V72oM charming stuff to start the day with

RT @Stunning_Earth Very rare 'roll' cloud seen in Australia #stunningearth -http://bit.ly/XgXgwu >>dramatic (v @Asher_Wolf)#meteorology

Maybe there's hope for the music industry yet - http://cnet.co/XBKBVV there's always been hope: problem was obstinacy in face of change

EU fish discards deal welcomed by UK - http://bit.ly/XZXYvt let's hope it's enough & not too late... #fish

RT @klang67 Affluence is sick. Swedish library burns old books instead of donating them http://flip.it/go3lU via @juliapennlert>>shameful

WTO: LDCs To Press For Extension For TRIPS, Plain Packaging Back -http://bit.ly/ZzWb36 #DominicanRepublic wants to kill more people

Massenabmahner DigiProtect ist pleite - http://bit.ly/12aeNfv one down, many to go #copyright

Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Game of Thrones, Director Says - http://bit.ly/V8snf0 more background on this

Mozilla VP talks Firefox OS, the threat from Tizen and low-quality HTML5 apps - http://tnw.co/YzgTNr some good points, esp. re Tizen

Junge Abgeordnete der Koalition gegen Leistungsschutzrecht -http://bit.ly/WgPy8L good to see #lsr

US court brands whale activists 'pirates' - http://bbc.in/WgRheq nothing compared to #Japan's crime here (v @kaatje36 @4Animals_Nature)

Top German Police Officer: 'Anyone On The Internet Has Left The Private Sphere' - http://bit.ly/V8JsFS worrying #privacy #surveillance

Digital Colonialism: #Africa's new communication dimension -http://bit.ly/XhFhWJ @elmyra rightly sceptical of #PAIPO

Banned, blacklisted and embattled - the man who dared to take on energy giants - http://bit.ly/V94qEt kudos, brave bloke (v @Asher_Wolf)

Stop Calling Electronic Espionage Cyberwar - http://bit.ly/13jBsFA "Cyberwar never changes, mostly because it has never existed." yup

China must brace for impact of possible EU-US #TAFTA- http://bit.ly/15iCmjZ"promote FTA negotiations according to its own agenda"

European Union launches CKAN data portal - http://bit.ly/XaJHAe #opendata,#opensource

The Persecution of Bradley Manning - http://bit.ly/12aP4U6 good analysis

Freescale's Insanely Tiny #ARM Chip Will Put the Internet of Things Inside Your Body - http://bit.ly/XG6uAn presumably running #Linux?

Parltrack needs money to keep on turning PDFs and DOCs into usable data -http://bit.ly/13WFXlg dosh still needed #EU

Will Firefox OS Smartphones Have Adoption Success In #China? -http://bit.ly/YEiPsa seems that online banking a problem, as for Korea

"#tobacco industry also says that pictorial warnings do not deter potential consumers" - http://bit.ly/YEjdH0 so why are they fighting it?

'Data-Entry Error' Led Military to Falsely Claim Taliban Attacks Are Down -http://bit.ly/WhNjBY yes, numbers are so hard to add up

#Biofuels Policy Helping Destroy U.S. Grasslands At Fastest Rate Since 1930s, Boosting Threat of Dust-Bowlification - http://bit.ly/YEkRbT

Amazon Releases Cloud Player Music App Optimized To The iPad -http://bit.ly/15QdcKM the cloud spreads its, er, tentacles..or something

Geneticists Estimate Publication Date Of The 'Iliad' - http://bit.ly/Xi114X"Languages behave just extraordinarily like genes" (v @BoraZ)

Pilot badger culls set 2 go ahead - http://bit.ly/YzxGC8 slow moves on neonicotinoid pesticides; Patterson is Anti-environment secretary

Will #openscience be web-based? - http://bit.ly/YzLNVX might make sense#opensource #mozilla

Ehemaliger Chef der Monopolkommission: Leistungsschutzrecht gefährdet Blogger - http://bit.ly/VNwvQV you bet #lsr

Publishers do not manage peer-review, either. We do. - http://bit.ly/XCzNXF"confusion" over this struck me, too #openaccess (v @BoraZ)

Not-for-profit site openDemocracy appeals for £26K to avoid closure -http://bit.ly/Xb0dAf (v @PaulLewis @asteris) 

Reflecting on Public Access - http://bit.ly/Xb0T8T interesting points about#openaccess use in different domains 

Content-mining: EU MUST legitimize it - http://bit.ly/VNFr8R & must stop bullying researchers into accepting solutions based on licensing

#donottrack is still being hijacked & perverted by the ad industry. this thread shows @alexanderhanff fighting back: http://bit.ly/15iTypA

Rijksmuseum releases 111,000 high quality images to the public domain -http://bit.ly/V9JXPO kudos (v @klang67 @arkland_swe)#pd


Wednesday 27 February 2013

130226


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130225 - http://bit.ly/V45ABb yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

British Politician Tells Local Paper It Can't Quote Him Because He Dislikes Its Readers' Comments - http://bit.ly/YxpBvN contempt much?

Parmesan cheese: Thorn in US-EU free-trade agreement? - http://bit.ly/Zx5mkNGIs & hormones in meat stumbling blocks #opendrafts #TAFTA

“It would be inappropriate to try to alter U.S. labor law through the back door” -http://bit.ly/Yv1MGX unlike copyright #IPout #TAFTA

Fish discards ban 'may be diluted' - http://bbc.in/ZFQy78 #France#Spain et al. determined to destroy fishing stocks through greed

Local authorities network to focus on #openstandards and #interoperability -http://bit.ly/13O6ZuT nice move 

#ICANN allows hundreds of new Internet domain suffixes -http://cnet.co/VKd7Ej spammers and trolls worldwide rejoice #stupid

The CCIA & RIM Tell the FTC Banning Injunctions for FRAND Patents Can Make Smartphone Wars Worse - http://bit.ly/XWO7sZ just abolish them

Looking Back from Deep Space - http://bit.ly/Yxr2tZ lovely meditation

[RT] Early Lessons From New Zealand's 'Three Strikes' Punishments -http://bit.ly/YsrRqf and they're not good #justice #nz

#OpenData Is Not Just For Governments Anymore... - http://bit.ly/15fN5M2some interesting examples (v @remixtures)

#Sony jumps on the #Mozilla bandwagon, will launch #Firefox OS device in 2014 - http://tnw.co/YUyEZD another big vote of confidence

Freitag: Demonstrieren gegen das Leistungsschutzrecht - http://bit.ly/VKgJWQcome on, #Germany, this is madness #lsr

“Don’t Fear the Internet”: Exceptions to #Copyright in #Chile -http://bit.ly/WfIGIG a welcome but tiny victory for public (v @asteris)

Chinese pollution study 'blocked on grounds of state secrecy' -http://bit.ly/X7VdMD but only good secrets, you understand... #china

#Database Right: Joint Tortfeasor Fear - http://bit.ly/XyZdWa another reason we must repeal this idiotic directive (v @copyrightgirl)

Letter in response to text & data mining for scientific research purposes workshop - http://bit.ly/13k7l0r bad stuff here (v @eikoku)#tdm

How to Save a Dying Language: #Aramaic - http://bit.ly/WfRiyJ fascinating & melancholy tale (v @Carmilla5 @Asher_Wolf)#linguistics

Chinese Junk Patents Flood Into #Australia, Allowing Chinese Companies To Strategically Block Innovation - http://bit.ly/YUYMDD #china

#Leistungsschutzrecht ohne Snippets? - http://bit.ly/ZxxCDQ huh??? #lsw

France Considers Operating System-Level Filtering - http://bit.ly/X8ceXe yeah, that'll work...oh, wait #opensource #hadopi #pricing

EU Water privatisation push - http://bit.ly/ZGd5AY #water must be a #commons(v @olivierhoedeman @right2water)

"I helped these people get in power. And then they drove the man I loved to suicide" - http://bit.ly/ZxENfe read, get angry (v @Glinner)

#Hillsborough disaster: police chief apologises for 'ill-judged' email -http://bit.ly/Wg1LdG "ill-judged" as in "I got found out"...

We Paid for the Research, So Let’s See It - http://nyti.ms/XXOW4Kimmediately (v @howardknopf)#noembargo #openaccess

#RioTinto faces war crimes allegations - http://bit.ly/ZGi7NL "her abdomen was then cut open to remove the foetus" (v @Asher_Wolf @JLLLOW)

Trans-Atlantic Rifts: EU Activists Could Thwart US-EU Trade Deal -http://bit.ly/Xdv7q0 the coming battle over #GM, GI, #IPout of #TAFTA

Royal Pharmaceutical Society to play active role in AllTrials campaign -http://bit.ly/13kEWHJ #good news #opendata (v @bengoldacre)

Document Freedom Day: 2013 Event registration now open -http://bit.ly/128hDS2 just a month away #opensource #openstandards #dfd2013

Survey: Most Developers Now Prefer #HTML5 For Cross-Platform Development - http://tcrn.ch/15NeVQT great news for #firefoxOS

The US Department of Justice and USPTO call for compulsory licenses on thousands of "standards-essential" patents - http://bit.ly/13kS4MS

French Politicians Worry That Free Creative Commons Works Devalue 'Legal' Offers - http://bit.ly/YzZM2b er, what? #cc #france

Major news orgs file amicus brief in AP’s #Meltwater case - http://bit.ly/ZxX9gl#Leistungsschutzrecht all over again (v @mathewi)

#OpenData Institute Training & Learning - http://bit.ly/XAatla interesting, welcome move (v @kcorrick @jonworth)#odi

Indian Music Industry Exec Says The Unthinkable: 'Internet Piracy Is A Good Thing' - http://bit.ly/13fQ74M well done #india

Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors Use Bogus (c) Takedown To Block Publication Of Federally Mandated Stdrds - http://bit.ly/WdSgMr

Illegal P2P music sharing declined 17% in 2012 as Internet users turn 2 free, legal streaming services - http://tnw.co/YVNRZp as predicted

Twitter Announces App for Firefox OS - http://on.mash.to/Xetrwr important vote of confidence

Google's Andy Rubin on Firefox OS: "In General, I Feel Friendly" -http://bit.ly/VLpoZg "open is good"

How many unique English tweets are possible? How long for population of the world to read them all out loud? - http://what-if.xkcd.com/34/ brill

No Microsoft certificate support in Linux kernel says Torvalds - http://bit.ly/13g3oKA & in no uncertain terms...

Beppe Grillo's antics may yet shake the whole European system - http://bit.ly/13g4GoW interesting analysis

Brilliant Robot Scraps Can Form Selves Into Anything - http://bit.ly/YyiYcE intriguing #4dprinting

Cyber-warfare: The new Red Scare - http://bit.ly/XEda1T yup

"i risultati della ricerca prodotta con fondi pubblici debbano essere liberamente disponibili" - http://bit.ly/Xf8kKy (v @ghirardinicola) 


Tuesday 26 February 2013

130225


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130224 - http://bit.ly/X8fdNO yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

#Mozilla Unlocks the Power of the Web on Mobile with Firefox OS -http://bit.ly/138QKx1 official blog post on launch

No celebrations here: why the White House public access policy sucks -http://bit.ly/WjZadm not so good (v @McDawg)#openaccess #oa

EU-US trade deal: Creating a new world order - http://bit.ly/15dR9wf more breathless #TAFTA rhetoric #opendrafts

Kantar Worldpanel: Android And Verizon Back On Top In U.S. Smartphone Sales, Android At Nearly 50% Of Sales - http://tcrn.ch/VHuTbn

Tamiz v Google – Google’s liability for defamatory content - http://bit.ly/YraztFan Australian perspective (v @clarinette02)#au

Yandex deals Google a one-two punch, debuts alternative Android app store and 3D interface - http://tnw.co/Yrbcn3 interesting move

Popular to pariah... how Lord #Puttnam killed the historic Defamation Bill -http://ind.pn/Zuv5u4 this is how he will be remembered #shame

#Nigeria To Launch $15m Venture Capital Fund For Software Developers -http://bit.ly/VHNcx9 hope some's #opensource (v @africatechie)

The FT’s digital subscriptions exceeded print circulation for the first time in 2012 - http://tnw.co/139qD9h a milestone, but limited

Roko's Basilisk wants YOU - http://bit.ly/YR6saa "Those whacky extropian types have been hitting the nightmare sauce again"

Keith Jarrett is coming to town - http://bit.ly/XSJtMu fascinating profile of a great artist #music

MT @MLBrook Regarding data we need to start looking at standards. interoperability is key #OAintheUK >>must mean #openstandards #opendata

#Firefox vs Cookies - http://bit.ly/W7junN poses some important questions about forthcoming #mozilla move on #privacy

Public back #privacy law action on Google - http://bit.ly/139SfLa pity the European Parliament is gutting #dataprotection at the moment...

NASCAR Abuses DMCA To Try To Delete Fan Videos Of Daytona Crash -http://bit.ly/X9faBf gosh, that kind of thing has never happened before

4 Ways Google Has Already Appeased Big #Copyright - http://bit.ly/YrUBPU I predict #google will become the new #Microsoft soon...

The Secret Sharing History of Monopoly - http://bit.ly/15JKuv1 wow, extraordinary: advanced version of game was really about the #commons

rushkoff: Why I'm quitting Facebook - http://bit.ly/V141E5 "exploits our social interactions way a Tupperware party does" (v @Asher_Wolf)

#Censorship is alive and well in #Canada – just ask government scientists -http://bit.ly/Ys4CN1 shocking & disappointing (v @schestowitz)

So Open It Hurts: What the Internet did to Aaron Swartz -http://on.tnr.com/Zv0koN load of clichéd piffle (v @BiellaColeman @wearpants)

API, PNR, threat assessments, & data-mining: Member States push 4 access to travellers' personal data - http://bit.ly/YROe8p not on

Chinese comments on future work of WIPO patent committee (L&Es, patent quality and #patents and health) - http://bit.ly/Wmy2KO #china

Early Lessons From New Zealand's 'Three Strikes' Punishments -http://bit.ly/YsrRqf and they're not good #justice #nz

#Mozilla to the Rescue, Again? - http://bit.ly/VIwBJm #firefoxOS off to a better-than-expected start #openweb #opensource

DOJ Admits It Had To Put Aaron Swartz In Jail To Save Face Over The Arrest - http://bit.ly/XBkF9X pathetic

Will @edfenergy become the Barbra Streisand of climate protest? -http://bit.ly/15KGQko you bet...

#UNC Rape Victim May Be Expelled For Speaking About Her Case -http://bit.ly/XUYRYN so why would anyone now study there? (v @sivavaid) 

The Pirate Bay Departs #Sweden And Sets Sail For #Norway and #Spain -http://bit.ly/V2BptX & so it goes on...

NJ Gubenatorial Candidate Speaks Out Against Six Strikes: ISP Shouldn't Decide What You Can Download - http://bit.ly/XX4bIh good to see


Monday 25 February 2013

130224


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130223 - http://bit.ly/YnAimB yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Killer robots must be stopped - http://bit.ly/Yu8gUl too right; but will other killer robot - the military-industrial complex - let us?

Montana Bill Would Give Corporations The Right To Vote - http://bit.ly/123lGPByou can't make this stuff up #us

Fifty years ago today I met John Cleese - http://bit.ly/XtCyKZ evocative piece from Eric Idle on the roots of #MontyPython (v @Eaterofsun)

UK's top cardinal accused of 'inappropriate acts' by priests - http://bit.ly/YPPiZhwow, just in time for the papal enclave #hypocrisy

NASCAR blocks eyewitness video of Daytona crash, but YouTube reverses the takedown - http://bit.ly/XtCVFf don't miss #nascar's "excuse"

RT @TransformDrugs Teenage sports star hanged himself over 50p worth of cannabis: The Sun http://dlvr.it/30BKgh >>*legalise* it now

Motorola Surprises Microsoft - The Germany-Seattle-FTC FRAND Saga Continues - http://bit.ly/XtDzT8 what a soap opera

Presse-LSR scheitert wohl an EU-Orchideenrecht - http://bit.ly/123ntEb looks potentially significant #lsr

U.S. wants Wikileaks shut down - will recruit hackers for help -http://bit.ly/123nyrJ playing with fire here, chaps

Malware on oil rig computers raises security fears - http://bit.ly/WbKhPD well, stop just using Windows, & diversify computing environment

Dead Megaupload Still Has Millions of Visitors - http://bit.ly/XNZXpp amazing example of digital momentum

Tory MP warned of powerful paedophile ring 30 years ago -http://ind.pn/15GfXy9 (v @LifeinSicily @Seville_Writer“@tom_watson)#uk

WebRTC – Ringing A Mobile Phone Near You - http://bit.ly/ZrTxMP "WebRTC goes beyond VoIP and video conferencing, with no plugins" #mozilla

Will Spotify build the copyright star? - http://bit.ly/123tqkx will the music industry finally get it? (v @remixtures @Copytwilight)

US Reps Start Intellectual Property Caucus - http://bit.ly/Zs2dCR 'cos everyone know #copyright & #patents are underprotected #maximalism

Only Gandalf can protect Europe from the Unitary Patent - http://bit.ly/15Gt5TQa trifle long, but lots of interesting stuff #swpats #eu

What price freedom with Labour's stance on #libel? - http://bit.ly/X4q4tx shame shame shame on #Labour (v @martaruco @asteris) 

BitTorrent Site Admin Hits Out at UK Music Industry Site Blocking Demand -http://bit.ly/ZBFwQo kudos: he's quoting #Tacitus

#Zambia: Chinese Experts to Monitor Internet? - http://bit.ly/Yq3E5J worrying, although the West isn't much better #surveillance #china

#Hitler 'Downfall' parodies removed from YouTube - http://bit.ly/XyCgiI where#copyright inevitably leads (v @davewiner @jeffjarvis)

The trouble with #TED talks - http://bit.ly/135vFDu fine, justified take-down of a format whose time has gone (if it ever came) (v @McDawg)

No celebrations here: why the White House public access policy sucks -http://bit.ly/WjZadm what he said (v @McDawg)#openaccess

Urgent! Help Stop The Destruction Of Bulgarian Nature - http://bit.ly/13DHwEtonce it's gone, it's gone (v ‏@mkpetkova @asteris)#bulgaria

Blaze Your Own Path: #FirefoxOS partners site - http://bit.ly/YoFGGh an impressive start: can it build on it? (v @storming)

Euro-deputies weaken data protection law - http://bit.ly/ZBZP05 good analysis (v @futureidentity @alexanderhanff @clarinette02)#privacy

Πολλές μικρές ACTA απειλούν την ελευθερία στο Διαδίκτυο -http://bit.ly/YuGhnH good summary of main threats (v @YBoyio)#TAFTA#CETA #TPP

White House Press Sec. Told Not To Acknowledge Drone Program Exists -http://huff.to/15H8Jdm people just imagined getting killed (v @drones)

We should aspire to a Global Knowledge #Commons - http://bit.ly/W3qt15aspire? no: demand it... 

Global allies give #Mozilla's #Firefox OS a mobile foothold -http://cnet.co/W3vGGf good, detailed report #smartphones

"shape global intellectual property, Internet commerce in ways that work to advantage of UUS companies" - http://wapo.st/UY0yGq #TAFTA #TPP

#HP switches to Android for $169 Slate 7, phones planned too -http://cnet.co/YQJAX7 pretty significant moves

Tell @edfenergy 2 drop legal action against No Dash 4 Gas activists -http://chn.ge/Xz6Ngm maybe it prefers PR disaster (v @GeorgeMonbiot)

EPA Contaminated by Conflict of Interest - http://to.pbs.org/XQfCV4 "borrowed from the Big Tobacco playbook, using science to create doubt"

#AU Public servants baulk at #FOI changes - http://bit.ly/ZtksYD hello? public servants as in serving the public? (v @piecritic)

#TPP: a gateway to GE? - http://bit.ly/Yv7Ddl of course, and resistance will be impossible thanks to investor-state provisions #NZ



Sunday 24 February 2013

130223


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130222 - http://bit.ly/XvVJAt yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

“Physically Together”: Here’s the Internal Yahoo No-Work-From-Home Memo for Remote Workers - http://dthin.gs/121mPXV #yahoo still clueless

Aaron Swartz and the Criminalization of Digital Dissent - http://bit.ly/Zz47W5hugely disturbing trend

Video: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum – with quadrocopters -http://bit.ly/X2yq4P further proof we are in trouble #drones

[corrected] Aussie hacker busted for new Xbox leak gag - http://bit.ly/X1U6wmmore ridiculous bullying (v @Asher_Wolf)#au

Meat here? Hunting for data about the food supply chain - http://bit.ly/YNAbzxgreat use of #opendata to dig deeper into news stories

Media group says #Zimbabwe police ban on hand-cranked, solar radios illegal ahead of polling - http://wapo.st/15aD8Q2 police state much?

Huge Grillo rally rounds off Italy election campaign - http://reut.rs/UTI6OWcome on, #Italy, play the joker... (v @LifeinSicily)

House of Lords wants "to avoid damaging "complex ecology" of research communication" - http://bit.ly/XJZrbN what, like 30% profit margins?


Our Right to Poison: Lessons from the Failed War on #Drugs -http://bit.ly/ZpzzSV superb journalism; #decriminalisation is only solution

#Firefox maker #Mozilla to launch smartphone operating system -http://bit.ly/ZpA6nK #freesw + chinese hardware = win (v @charlesarthur)

"Pagella Politica fact-checks campaign assertions and then ranks them on a scale" - http://econ.st/X2Jijb great move (v @LifeinSicily)#it

Big pharma's excuses for the monopolies on medicine won't wash -http://bit.ly/13xXS1v drug patents kill millions (v @DrRimmer @fitbmovie)

News International looks to Amazon cloud to save up to £10m -http://bit.ly/ZpM1lp "collapsing down" servers: hmm (v @andyo @swardley)

Our garbage - http://bit.ly/VDoy0y "I just want to say one word to you. Plastics. There's a great future in plastics." (v @chalkaholm)

RT @OpenFoodFacts @jgbarah @glynmoody we are creating an open database of food products here: http://openfoodfacts.org  #opendata #food

Is Smart Making Us Dumb? - http://on.wsj.com/YsQdxT worrying: I agree with @evgenymorozov here: this is about who's in control

great news:@dracos live tube map is now using #openstreetmap data -http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/ (v @bengoldacre)#opendata

It’s not you Facebook, it’s me — okay, it’s partly you: Why I unfriended almost everyone - http://bit.ly/XwV41U many will do this, I think

Six Strikes Officially Begins On Monday - http://bit.ly/YLNqBW & so the pointless accusations begin

Wrongheaded #Copyright Claim Blocks Online Posting of Important Technical Standards - http://bit.ly/XLzJ6R more ways (c) harms us

Non-Existent Bigger Than 7/7 Plot - http://bit.ly/X3jMdF "Convicting “terrorists” with no bombs, no parts, & no targets is shameful"

New Croatian FoIA – A Step Towards Open Government - http://bit.ly/Ylv6jlgreat stuff #croatia #transparency

EU #Transparency on Trial - http://bit.ly/X3jcez read the pathetic arguments against transparency - & laugh

OpenSpending around the world - http://bit.ly/VZsUBM lots, all over the place#opendata #transparency

#Oscar-nominated shorts pulled from YouTube in response to #Hollywoodpressure - http://bit.ly/Xszgrf nicely-time stupidity (v @ninapaley)


Saturday 23 February 2013

130222


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130221 - http://bit.ly/VAal4l yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Select Committee Inquiry into Clinical Trials Data - http://bit.ly/11Z4hYg urgent: deadline noon today; pl. submit if you can #opendata

#Roundup more toxic than officially declared - new study - http://bit.ly/11Z4Jpzworrying, if confirmed #monsanto

Deutsche EU-Abgeordnete lobbyieren für Sicherheitsindustrie -http://bit.ly/UPkX03 too much #lobbying

Energy company wants audio of foul-mouthed executive removed from the web - http://bit.ly/YqF9kV yeah, good luck with that

To Argue That 'Copyright And The First Amendment Coexisted For 200 Years' Is To Ignore Reality - http://bit.ly/Xp8f84 great rebuttal

Internet Archive Employees to be Paid in Bitcoin: Please Donate -http://bit.ly/11Z5sqG wow, that's amazing

Blender 2.66 Adds New Modes, Physics, Hair Rendering - http://bit.ly/UPmNy6#blender gets amazinger #opensource

Открытые данные Москвы - http://bit.ly/XPY9cB good news from #Russia#opendata

v impressed by @gleniswillmott at meeting on EU Clinical Trials Directive today; transparency & #opendata move a little closer #Euclinical

#Spotify - Large Scale, Low Latency, P2P Music-on-Demand Streaming -http://bit.ly/YhhNSR seems based on #linux & #hadoop (v @remixtures)

Stop The UK Fire Service Being Privatised - http://bit.ly/VThj7p not content with gutting the #NHS, now this: let's fight it #epetition

EU/US push WIPO negotiations against human rights, 4 restrictions on exceptions - http://bit.ly/UQokUL these people are disgusting #blind

Publishers Successfully Lobbying UK Lords Committee? -http://bit.ly/12WG8B6 well, they have no arguments, so they have to use lobbying #oa

EU negotiator says Canada must give up more to get free-trade deal -http://bit.ly/YHwPzd let's see him do the same for #TAFTA #CETA

Abe readying to announce Japan’s entry into #TPP talks - http://bit.ly/ZwXcfUnaively thinks it can get exemption for rice & beef: ha!

EU-Russian cooperation needed to stop Baltic Sea becoming ‘green soup’ -http://bit.ly/13sHpM2 too right

Bank of England close to yuan deal - http://bit.ly/X17sdT significant in lots of ways #china #economics

RT @catlx My latest project: #OpenSource Technology Transfer -http://bit.ly/UQwwEf (v @openp2pdesign)#openhardware

Android Users Have Notably Lower Mobile Voice and SMS Consumption than iPhone Users - http://onforb.es/VAQ52w maybe they have real lives...

BBC Pollard inquiry: why is it so hard to search the documents? -http://bit.ly/Yhv8dU maybe 'cos #BBC is clueless about technology?

al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge rones - http://bit.ly/Xu4YBi looks like we'll all be needing these, the way things are going...

Study: Online Courses May Be The Worst For Minorities And At-Risk Students - http://tcrn.ch/13askCV could be a problem; needs looking into

Google buildings in SV affected by toxic substances left behind by computer chip makers - http://tnw.co/Yh4mR1 </insert obvious comment>

Will Anyone Blink First? Canada - EU Trade Agreement Appears to Hit a Stalemate - http://bit.ly/ZndkNk good question #CETA

Orthography of Early Chinese Writing - http://bit.ly/Yh5WCa amazing scholarship, now freely available - kudos #linguistics #language

MT @StephanShaxper Please take my 'Open Data' survey, helping me with my strategic Review of Public Sector Information. http://y-g.co/XEHHhW 

Open Data & My Data - http://bit.ly/Yrh8tX #OKF "launching an Open Data & MyData Working Group"

How #opendata could transform the citizen-government relationship in #Ugandahttp://bit.ly/12X2dzA great initiative #transparency

Where Has the "Author" Gone in Copyright? - http://bit.ly/XpR1aK it has merged with the public: welcome to the age of expanding creativity

Oxford Dictionaries adds tweetable, dumbphone & FOSS to its latest editions -http://tnw.co/ZnfVqt yay, #FOSS is respectable #lexicography

'Report on European Parliament's free software use is coming' -http://bit.ly/YLJjoj excellent - I look forward to reading it #EU #freesw

3D-Printed Suckers Make #Robot #Octopus a Terrifying Possibility -http://on.mash.to/UR2SPf what could possibly go wrong?

Temporary tattoos could make electronic telepathy and telekinesis possible -http://bit.ly/YLSS6K hmm...

The Open Data Institute opens up for applications to work with crime & justice data - http://tnw.co/WfgHUa great; let's add #clinicaldata

New Order From Seattle Judge in MS v. Motorola May Mean Good News for Motorola - http://bit.ly/159lqwm we shall see

CoolShip #Android keyboard computer reminds us of the 80's -http://bit.ly/X1q6Cv makes sense

São Paulo State Governor Vetoes Open Educational Resources Bill -http://bit.ly/YLVf9w really regrettable #OER #brazil

Hacking the Papal Election - http://bit.ly/WZvPar detailed & fascinating. by @schneierblog 

Desperate data about desperate children - http://bit.ly/ZnyISL another reason why we need #opendata

AIDS Study Shows Fastest Life Expectancy Gains 'In the History of Public Health' - http://gaw.kr/X1sh94 why withholding generics is murder

Blake Ross Leaving #Facebook - http://tcrn.ch/ZnSQnx maybe he'd like to get back to making the world a better place again.... #firefox

Second shoe drops: new White House Directive mandates OA -http://bit.ly/XR1I24 full analysis from @petersuber#openaccess #us

Taking on real reform in a post-#SOPA world http://bit.ly/120jdWd good to see @dkhanna11 moving forward here (v @doctorow)#IPout #TAFTA

UK's credit rating downgraded from AAA to AA1 by Moody's -http://bit.ly/XRb1z5 great: so all the suffering was a waste of time...

#Brazil Supreme Court denies #Monsanto extension on GM soy patent -http://bit.ly/120t52c not the end, but getting there


Friday 22 February 2013

130221


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130220 - http://bit.ly/WbTphR yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Indie booksellers sue Amazon and big publishers over #DRM (but have no idea what "DRM" and "open source" mean) - http://bit.ly/YI65NV

EP´s Industry committee debates clinical trial transparency; EC defends “small guys” - http://bit.ly/156KgN7 stupidity & obstructionism

MT @jamie_love EU is bulldozing the 3-step test language into blind treaty, in order to change WTO prudence>> not in my name: shame on #EU

What the Trans-Pacific Partnership Means for Intellectual Property -http://onphr.ma/YICiEO the usual #FUD from #phrma #tpp

EU, India Hoping to Clinch Trade Deal by April, Officials Say -http://bit.ly/11Xeapi still denying 1.7 billion people access to it

#NZ: Third person fined over internet piracy - http://bit.ly/12RjcmR and what does that achieve?

Save the Cameroonian rainforest -- stop the Herakles Farms' project -http://bit.ly/15xHS3e greed driving wanton destruction for #palmoil

Can your country be knocked out of the Internet? - http://bit.ly/YoO8Tvimportant issue

Dolphins Call Each Other By Name - http://bit.ly/VOiOU9 did anyone think otherwise...?

Germans can’t see meteorite YouTube videos due to copyright dispute -http://ars.to/WYM5tJ "music playing from a Russian car radio." #GEMA

360-degree panorama of #London smashes world record with 320 gigapixels and 48,640 shots - http://tnw.co/11XfU1U bring on the terapixels

RIAA Still Can't Figure Out How To Use Google's DMCA Tools, Blames Google - http://bit.ly/YdmRFW what do you expect, intelligence?

MT @NeelieKroesEU EU phone, mobile & Internet users have new #EU rights:http://bit.ly/YoQr9c >>pity European Parliament destroying them

The #OpenData Census – Tracking the State of Open Data Around the World -http://bit.ly/Zu2vwF great idea; help needed

European Monitoring Launched: The Transparency of Policing Protests -http://bit.ly/VOpIZH sad that we need this is in "democratic" lands

RT @jamie_love Sorry Europe, but you suck at WIPO this week>>proud of EU reps at WIPO kicking the blind in the teeth? I'm not... #shame

#Chrome OS Was Originally Based On......#Firefox? - http://bit.ly/12RtGCDfascinating

How to make #opendata more open? Close the gaps - http://bit.ly/XrxCTE worth thinking about #ogov

US says Japan must negotiate on rice 2 join trade talks - http://reut.rs/YoUjHea foretaste #TAFTA: US will want everything on table #Ipout

RT @jamie_love USA and EU just told negotiators here they "don't need a treaty" on copyright exceptions for the blind>>no: they aren't blind

MT ‏@jamie_love Get this. (c) lobby says 3-step test already applies to everything, but they will block treaty without expanding application

Europaparlamentarier verwässern Datenschutz weiter #EUDataP -http://bit.ly/157elMw proud of themselves for betraying the EU public?

Israel Grants Oil Rights in Syria to Murdoch & Rothschild - http://bit.ly/ZucXEk"drilling of new wells by an occupying power is illegal"

Five #Ubuntu Touch Facts - http://bit.ly/W62jCE & where to find out more#tablets

Bizarre: Indian Government Orders #Censorship Of One Its Own Sites -http://bit.ly/WUUQn4 weird #india

EU To Seek GIs In US FTA, But No New ACTA - http://bit.ly/157xtKx some fairly significant statements; but we need #opendrafts (v @PostActa)

EU cyber laws should target IT suppliers' #security negligence -http://bit.ly/Ye3fS7 yup; been saying this for years (v @vendorprisey)

questionnaire about licence formalities in #opensource-type assignment contracts - http://bit.ly/UN8wBX help required... #cc

12 Questions about #TPP that Obama & Abe Do Not Want to Hear this Week -http://bit.ly/XP5ZmH also relevant for #TAFTA #opendrafts #Ipout

TSA Agents Harass Three-Year-Old with Spina Bifida, Take Away Her Stuffed Animal - http://gaw.kr/13ozPSt this makes my blood boil

#Canada to Push Opening U.S. Govt Procurement Contracts at #TPP -http://on.wsj.com/Vzhdik this is thin gruel

#Microsoft foresees chaos if Google v. Oracle result stands -http://ars.to/12Tw77M "destabilize" entire sw industry: no, exactly wrong

HOWTO: effectively argue against Internet #censorship ideas -http://bit.ly/YFoiNa useful: good explanations, lots of sensible suggestions

text version of guide to arguing against #censorship - http://bit.ly/YeVs6sprobably easier to read - worth looking at

WIPO Treaty For The Blind - http://bit.ly/XPjaUA disgusting attempt by (c) maximalists to take away more from the blind & poor, not give

No Nudity: Playboy's iPhone App To Test Men's 'For The Articles' Excuse -http://bit.ly/11YmlBR ha! nicely done

RT @jeremyscahill Aaron Swartz faced 50+ years in prison, but Blackwater execs get 4 months house arrest.>>my thought too (v @Glinner)

Beware of #NBC’s Hacked Website - http://gaw.kr/YpV4Qv good job I never go there #security


Thursday 21 February 2013

130220


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130219 - http://bit.ly/133DjOz yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

[RT] #monsanto: "to suggest that plants just grow themselves is preposterous" - http://bit.ly/153ClAh says it all, really (v @Tgeigs)#GM

Transatlantic trade deal is Obama's chance for a legacy - http://bit.ly/12LhJOPno, that's #climatechange, actually #IPout of #TAFTA

I Can't Let You Do That, Dave - http://bit.ly/ZqORdD great meditation on why#DRM must be extirpated

Kaptur Reintroduces Seed Replanting Bill But Supreme Court Decision Coming Soon - http://bit.ly/WW28bP pointless; abolish #genepatents

E.ON lobbied for stiff sentences against Kingsnorth activists, papers show -http://bit.ly/VIvY56 "over-bearing, arrogant and illiberal"

Why do US & EU trade negotiators hate the Berne Copyright Limitations & Exceptions? - http://bit.ly/Y6hY39 'cos (c) maximalists are greedy

Η Open Data Day 2013 γιορτάζεται και στην Ελλάδα! - http://bit.ly/Y98XVlthat's good (v @karounos)#opendata

Cardinal Favored to Become First Black Pope Blames Gay Priests for the Church’s Sexual Abuse Scandals - http://gaw.kr/YziJzS great

Investors running wild on land: the threats posed by international investment agreements - http://bit.ly/Y99JBB this will cause riots

Big Tobacco-Backed Lawmakers Take Down Oklahoma’s Anti-Smoking Bill -http://bit.ly/ZqS3pS now share responsibility for deaths to come

WIPO Negotiations Over Changes To Copyright For Those With Disabilities Once Again Shrouded In Secrecy - http://bit.ly/Xoz21d lots to hide

The Continuing Disaster Of Open Government In Germany -http://bit.ly/Y6oCX4 come on, people, you can do better than this #opendata

#China to introduce carbon tax - http://bit.ly/13ejeR9 leads the way (v @hamishNews @superglaze)

#Python Software Foundation: An Update on Our #Trademark Issue -http://bit.ly/15uoX9D things beginning to move? (v @webmink)

Transcript of Oral Argument in Bowman v. #Monsanto: Where's Patent Exhaustion for Self-Replicating Patented Seeds? - http://bit.ly/Vvg2AD

EU Parliament: Will Liberals (ALDE) Weaken Privacy in Industry Committee? -http://bit.ly/XoDSvk that would be madness

anyone else finding #Firefox 19 a complete dog on Ubuntu? I've had to restart it 3 times so far to kill its 100% CPU hogging #fail #mozilla

Written questions: Self-regulation of online and digital services -http://bit.ly/Zg47pX good questions from @MarietjeD66 about bad trend

Photography industry shows mass opposition to government #copyrightchanges - http://bit.ly/UH9xeP + usual sense of entitlement #orphans

5 reasons to oppose the Government's Secret Courts plans -http://bit.ly/W38B6i we musn't allow this shameful move (v @AnnieMachon)

Publishers Flip Out, Call Bill To Provide #OpenAccess To Federally Funded Works A 'Boondoggle' - http://bit.ly/W3xfU7 that's rich

Armed #UK Police Raid House Over Facebook Picture Showing Toy Weapon In Background - http://bit.ly/XkIea1 because, er, #terrorism

Taking The Message Of Open Government To #Burma - http://bit.ly/YmFLbg"the golden thread of transparncy" #ogov

in 2007, Haliburton applies for patent on patent trolling - http://1.usa.gov/12MysBq beyond parody (v @jwildeboer)

Insist That People Coexisted With Dinosaurs…Get an A in Science Class! -http://bit.ly/Ya0mBB seriously stupid in #oklahoma (v @normative)

Resources Between the Stars - http://bit.ly/12MI2nX fascinating musings#space

EU-US Free Trade Agreement: End of the Asian Century? - http://bit.ly/UIpBNtyes, the pathetic fantasy of 2 declining powers... #TAFTA

Why You Won't Be Reading a New #Tolkien Biography - http://bit.ly/155pTQv#copyright at its finest; JRR must be proud of his son (v @sjvn)

Sonar Project is to build a Linux operating system focused on accessibility -http://bit.ly/12NiLK9 benefactor urgently needed (v @webmink)

Europäisches Parlament: Industrie-Ausschuss stimmt gegen Datenschutz -http://bit.ly/11VqXbN "Bürgerrechte gelten als Extremposition!"

EU-US trade deal needs rules of engagement - http://bit.ly/UIuVAi "refuseniks more muted": you wait, mate #IPout of #TAFTA #opendrafts

#Obama golfed with oil giants during climate rally - http://bit.ly/12Ogpe2 how history should remember him... (v @Asher_Wolf @billmckibben)

#EDF Suing Climate Activists For £5 Million - Protesters Face Losing Homes -http://bit.ly/YBsjSX pure intimidation; remember #mclibel?


Wednesday 20 February 2013

130219


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130218 - http://bit.ly/130GO8g yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Oilsands monitoring plan results not available yet - http://bit.ly/W0XISm nothing to hide, of course (v @timbray)#tarsands #ca

National kicks for touch on plain packaging - sad to see #NZ gov's pusillanimity here; people will die as a result of this #smoking #tpp

Half of Chinese government officials fear microblogging services could cause social unrest: Survey - http://tnw.co/130HzOT #china

EPSU is disappointed about Parliament’s vote on Concessions -http://bit.ly/ZohEzx EU must listen to public (v @erikwesselius)

Shale gas debate intensifies in Germany ahead of election -http://bit.ly/12G9dAE disappointingly pro-shale piece #renewables

Fujitsu Finally Enters Europe’s Smartphone Market With A Senior-Focused#Android Device With France Telecom - http://tcrn.ch/Y5jj8v

Free trade deals delay #NZ public health initiative - http://bit.ly/Y5jtwF  investor-state disputes a huge threat to people's lives #TPP

Information technology in #Africa - http://econ.st/ZoiOuU useful round-up of what's going on, by Economist

"investigation by detectives resulted in all 5 men being charged with creating a false belief" - http://bit.ly/VsEX7O (v @PeteDotAscian)

MT @stshank @Mandiant report on Chinese hacking (PDF):http://bit.ly/152Ikp2 >>AFAICS all Windows-based; fascinating details

WIPO Special Session negotiations on treaty for blind, text -http://bit.ly/Y5m3ms "USPTO held a 90 min. briefing for publishers" shame

ParlTrack - http://bit.ly/YjJsOO good background to important tool#transparency #EU

London court ruling could have grave consequences for free speech online -http://bit.ly/Y5muNr Index is rightly worried #censorship

Former File-Sharing Site Admin Fined 6.4 Million Euros - http://bit.ly/W11awjpicking on the little people is easy... #italy

The Weird Youth of the Animal Kingdom (Slide Show) - http://bit.ly/WKpKP0these. are. insane. #evolution

#Bhutan's Government: Gross National Happiness, Yes; Sense Of Humor, Not So Much - http://bit.ly/ZcHdzQ not all sweetness & light

#Python #Trademark Filer Ignorant Of Python? - http://bit.ly/Xqo7pK lots of fascinating background to this case

#WIPO provides limited access to observe informal negotiations, bans use of Internet social media - http://bit.ly/UCeZiZ in 2013? pathetic

#EU Data Protection: Please Write to MEPs Now - http://bit.ly/138V2zNimportant & urgent: pl. send something today if you can #DP #privacy

Morgen Abstimmung im ITRE-Ausschuss des Europäischen Parlaments: Noch 24h um unseren Datenschutz zu retten - http://bit.ly/ZoNts9 wichtig

Robert Scoble Is Switching To #Android - http://bit.ly/VtffjA aaaaaand another one...

#Apple accounts for 20% of all 2012 US consumer technology sales revenue -http://bit.ly/W7THGo impressive (v @jackschofield)

France Plans To Prohibit Cash Payments Over €1,000 - http://bit.ly/YkieYv how long before others follow? #money

How #Vaccines Have Changed Our World In One Graphic -http://onforb.es/WUbQLV well, that's pretty unequivocal (v @BoraZ)

update for those who are waiting to write to your MEPs (hint hint hint):http://www.privacycampaign.eu/ is now up again - take a look

Meet the fetish model who became an internet #privacy activist -http://bit.ly/XrpTa5 interesting (v @aprica @netzpolitik)

European Commission puts 'big business' before citizens - http://bit.ly/Y67HlGcrucial issue for #TAFTA #opendrafts #Ipout

#Georgia Set to Execute Man with IQ of 70 Today - http://bit.ly/15s98jv man is clearly ill; people condemning him are sick (v @normative)

California #tobacco control program cuts healthcare by $134 billion in 19 years -http://bit.ly/YDS57D wow (not #OA) (v @TransformDrugs)

“Where is EU internet ambassador Zu Guttenberg?” asks @MarietjeD66-http://bit.ly/Zp45jq that's a very good question (v @Marcvanderham)

#Python-lovers sling 'death threats' at UK ISP in #trademark row -http://bit.ly/12HV1qP neither acceptable nor necessary

#Ubuntu for #tablets arriving on Nexus 7, Nexus 10 this week -http://ars.to/11SXr6J choice is good

#Sweden Pirate Party Threatened with Law Suit - http://bit.ly/ZpdKGG & the legal bullying continues (v @PostActa)

#HADOPI May Be Succeeding -- In Driving French Customers To Dotcom's#Mega - http://bit.ly/XL4HZX as we predicted...

Tough fight for medical clinical trial #transparency in European Parliament -http://bit.ly/13aE1Ft this is a real mess (v @bengoldacre) 

Gestapo Courts - http://huff.to/15sFM4I old but important piece about why secret courts aren't needed - by someone who knows #uk

Österreich auf dem Weg zum Transparenzgesetz - http://bit.ly/Xsl8gj yay, great news #transparency #austria

#Canada’s futile quest to own postal codes: why governments should make data a public good - http://bit.ly/132aylm spot on #opendata

#monsanto: "to suggest that plants just grow themselves is preposterous" -http://bit.ly/153ClAh says it all, really (v @Tgeigs)#GM

Early Lessons from #NZ Copyright Tribunal - http://bit.ly/13b5CpT important analysis of how trad justice is being subverted (v @PostActa)

Lobbyists Get Head Start on Potential EU Trade Accord -http://bloom.bg/UEvVWi public already disadvantaged (v @erikwesselius)#IPout #TAFTA

Dirty Deeds: French National Library Privatizes Public Domain, Part 2 -http://bit.ly/W8GblW don't miss the lovely sting in the tail

Symbolfoto: Bundesregierung erklärt ihre OpenData-Politik - http://bit.ly/XjdKVU#opensource - ja; #opendata - nein.... #de