Category: politics
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Steve Irwin on Heggle
Heggle is a ‘video aggregation’ site similar to a ‘news aggregation site’. You can search this system for a topic like ‘Steve Irwin’ and it will come back with all the videos on all the video sites about this bloke. http://heggle.com/search?t=steve+irwin&c=0 And yes, Irwin was a totally embarrassment and I do agree with Germain Greer…
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What is the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force?
In its fourth year, the Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, through its core activities, working groups and regional nodes, made a substantive contribution to the preparations for the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society by sponsoring several regional meetings, organizing a series of global forums, producing several publications and participating…
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30 000 Police Monitor Blogs in China
I am not sure how accurate this claim is; that 30 000 police monitor Blogs in China, but it is form the Guardian, which is a pretty reliable if not at times a predictably narrow publication. When will big Western media realise that the Cold War is over and it is now safe to take…
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The OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data
Along with balancing the rules that govern Intellectual Property, the battles over the protection of personal data becomes another area of potential conflict within a society where information storage and global retrieval devices have become cheap and ubiquitous. Here is the international guidelines set by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development). Also see…
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What is the OpenNet Initiative?
The Internet is not so much a ‘global’ medium as is claimed, but is more a ‘patchwork’ medium comprisign of controls and filters by various geographical based state and commercial interests. If you are interested in studies of how the Internet is regulated by these various countries, see some of the reports on the OpenNet…