Man arrested for failing to tweet

Though Twitter is rapidly growing as a communication tool – as well as a social network service – it’s significance seemed to reach an unprecedented peak today, as it was announced that a man in the United States was actually arrested for failing to send a tweet as commanded by the police. Yes, it sounds […]

‘The Iraq Center’ – autonomous initiative to counter Danish government failure

One of the major national newspapers in Denmark, Politiken, has – somewhat contrary their not particularly leftist ideology – launched an autonomous (and may I say impressive) initiative to try to save some of the remaining Iraqi interpretors that the Danish government has rejected for asylum and started deporting back to war-torn Iraq to an […]

A call for respect and fullfilling of the rights of citizens and artists in the digital era

During the last years, innumerous organisations, activists, researchers and others savvy of the Internet have been fighting to create awareness of the importance of retaining net neutrality in the online sphere, where a myriad of commercial interests are using every possible means to gain dominance. Yet another large-scale initiative of advocacy is now taking place […]

Bill Gates’ plan for fixing the world

Last night in New York, Bill Gates presented his philanthropic plan on how to use a vast amount of his earned fortune to improve the world in a range of areas. Whether it will actually do any good in the large picture is hard to predict, but he surely deserves credit for trying. Mashable writes: […]

Angry Mermaid Award launches

ATTAC Denmark, Corporate Europe Observatory, Focus on the Global South, Friends of the Earth International and Spinwatch now launches the Angry Mermaid Award – an award which will be given to the company or organization that has worked the hardest to prevent and sabotage positive action to improve our climate. The winner will be decided […]

Danish anti-piracy agency throw in the towel

/// UPDATE NOV 8, 2009: This piece was Boing Boing’ed today, both on the site and in the newsletter. /// /// See also ping-backs from siltala.net, gadgetsteria.com, theworldmatters.org, newsblog.twitwp.com, skivadlime.se, nezinau.lt and partidulpiratilor.ro /// Just now it has been announced in the press by the official Danish Anti-Piracy agency, Antipiratgruppen, that they are throwing in […]

Map of silenced blogging voices

Check out this interactive map from Global Voices showing bloggers who have been silenced – that is threatened, arrested, or even worse – for speaking their minds online. Even in the US there was one — Elliot Madison, who was taken by the FBI for tweeting on how to evade arrest during the G20 protests […]

A people’s history of the internet: from Arpanet in 1969 to today

Just found this timeline of Internet history, which is interesting not only for it’s historic value, but also because it is compiled partly from user contributions. The text reads: To mark the 40th anniversary of the first stirrings of the internet we asked you to tell us your experiences of life online. Hundreds of you […]