The Net Age

I traded in my BP credit card points for an all paid vacation in Louisiana. Thanks BP! TGIF

With an Unsubstantiated Lawsuit Legal Analysis by Kurt Opsahl, EFF.org “LIGATT Security, a controversial Georgia-based computer security firm, is embroiled in an ongoing flame war with its online detractors, who question the firm’s legitimacy and stock prospects. Earlier this month, LIGATT upped the ante by filing suit in a Georgia court, threatening about 25 anonymous [...]

No to Oligarchy by Bernie Sanders, CommonDreams.org “The American people are hurting. As a result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on Wall Street, millions of Americans have lost their jobs, homes, life savings and their ability to get a higher education. Today, some 22 percent of our children live in poverty, and millions [...]

Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers Rulemaking Fixes Critical DMCA Wrongs, EFF.org “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos — people who, until now, could have been [...]

Center For Democracy & Technology, CDT.org “I’m spending the week in sunny San Jose, California for the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference. Social networking is clearly the focus this week; a stated goal of the conference is the creation of a social network users “Bill of Rights,” that would create a set of “best [...]

The Shirley Sherrod episode… R J Matson Cartoons Brought to our attention by TruthDig.com

Reflection: The capital bubble is the biggest of them all… In the last 20 years we have experienced manic depressive swings in oil prices, followed by the Nasdaq/dot.com bubble, the real estate/toxic lending bubble. Are we now witnessing the capital’s bubble? By capital is meant a geographical location where an obscene amount of money is [...]

In Other News, No WMD in Iraq Stop the presses and call the government spokespeople back from Martha’s Vineyard. by Jeremy Scahill, The Nation “The corporate media have discovered that the United States is radically outsourcing national security and sensitive intelligence operations. Cable news channels breathlessly report on the “groundbreaking,” “exclusive” Washington Post series, Top [...]

“As a bloggerand researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Zuckerman’s work is rooted in the idea that we, as global citizens, should be listening to what others have to say. In a recent talk at TEDGlobal2010 in Oxford, Zuckerman expounded the idea that new media, in its current incarnation, [...]

Oil magnate and star of Dallas got religion. J.R. Ewing Goes Green “Larry Hagman, who played the scheming Texas oilman on the long-running television show “Dallas,” is reprising his role as J.R. in an advertising campaign for SolarWorld.” TGIF