Children who use technology are ‘better writers’ BBC Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more confident about their writing skills, according to the National Literacy Trust.
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P2P | Music:- “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs,” said Hunter S. Thompson. Thing are even worse in the digital 21st century where the major labels call their own customers — including young children — criminals, publicly humiliating them in the lamescream media and dragging them through the courts as they try to gain control of how music is distributed online, and who distributes it
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- I recently had an opportunity to re-read a pamphlet I wrote in 2000 for a series on new thinking about mutualism published by the Co-operative Party.
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p2pnet news view P2P | Advertising:- “It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected.” Who says?
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p2pnet news view P2P | Advertising:- Jenna McWiliams (right) is among those of us who believe it’s good for people to be able to access information without having to jump a bunch of hurdles.
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Last week I sat around a large table on the top floor of Bush House in London with about twenty other people while we talked about the ways radio is changing and tried to imagine how English-language programming on BBC World Service could take advantage of the online, multimedia world that is emerging around us. I was invited because I appear on Digital Planet each week to think out loud about the impact of technology on our lives, but this was an internal BBC meeting rather than an open seminar, and the discussion was never intended to be made public
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The UK Home Office, which has just had its hopes of creating a vast Big Brother data base dashed, has also had its plans to restrict registered sex offenders from using the net similarly thwarted. In April the UK government said a new law would have applied to more than 30,000 sex offenders on the register, says the Guardian , going in failure to comply “would have carried up to five years’ imprisonment”. However, the Home Office has been “forced to climb down amid concerns that the plan is incompatible with the right to privacy,” says the story, continuing »»» There are fears that any move by the police to share the personal details and email addresses of registered sex offenders with the social networking sites would be open to legal challenges
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Ambulance Service of NSW internet and social media policy bans dissent 20009 Wikileaks Employee only document from the Ambulance Service of NSW (Australia) relating to the use of the internet and social media by their staff, can be verified by any employee of the ASNSW. It effectively gags employees of the ASNSW from raising concerns at the penalty of termination of employment
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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- President Barack Obama and Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates are being asked to back Hope Plus, a global, multilingual website promoting “social politics”. Through it, people would collaborate on “building schools, campaigning against pollution or helping disaster victims,” says the E-Government Bulletin . Slated for launch at the UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen in December, it’ll create “a place where people can meet, congregate, and participate with NGOs to change the world online,” says founder Phil Noble (right) who advised Obama presidential campaigners on internet activity “The name Hope Plus is derived from the premise that ‘If you take hope, people’s desire to do something, plus action, that equals change”, the story has Noble saying.
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p2pnet news view Advertising | Politics:- Fa$ebook is no different from any other company which pulls its money from online advertising.
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