Ars Technica provides commentary on a recent UN report that comes down hard on democratic countries such as France and Britain that have punitive laws against online file sharers. These so-called Three Strikes provisions permanently cut an offender off from the Internet as a result of violating those nation’s copyright laws. The UN report calls …
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‘World Wide Mind’ – Total Connectedness, and Its Consequences – NYTimes.com
After reading Katherine Bouton’s review of Michael Chorost’s newest book, World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet, I think that this has to go on my reading list. According to the review, Chorost’s book is about the convergence of human minds through technological mediation. Read the full review here: ‘World …
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Online Plagiarism and Cybercheating Still Strong – 61.9% | Thoughts of a Neo-Academic
I found a link on Slashdot.org this morning here to a blog post by Richard N. Landers titled Online Plagiarism and Cybercheating Still Strong – 61.9%. Landers does an admirable job discussing some of the recent findings by Neil Selwyn in his article “‘Not necessarily a bad thing . . .’: a study of online plagiarism …
The Oatmeal’s “This is the web right now” Webcomic is Spot-On
If you haven’t kept up with what is going on in the tech world recently, you should read The Oatmeal’s latest set of comics linked below. This compact, graphical guide will get you up-t0-date on Facebook, Apple’s Ping, Tumblr outages, Groupon, Netflix, HTML, and the AT&T vs. Verizon drama. My favorite is the Tumblrbeasts, which …
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Notes from Taiwan, postaday2011 is Difficult When Technology Strikes Back
Having no Internet access makes this whole postaday2011 thing rather difficult. However, we just got Internet access restored at Y’s parents’ house in Taiwan. There is a reason why the Internet stopped working. Yesterday, Y and I wanted to clean up the computer desk by the front door of their house and we wanted to …
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