Midia Vida

drafted during 4 months by the Free/Libre Culture Forum. Each year, the FCForum brings together key organisation and active voices in the sphere of free/libre culture. It responds to the need for an international arena in which to put together and coordinate a global framework for action, and to the need to defend and expand [...]

ASSUNTO: BRASIL: Blackout-causas e implicações, classificados por: Encarregado de Negócios Jackson Cherie, Razões 1.4 (b) e (d). REFTELS: A) BRASÍLIA 2008 672, B) BRASÍLIA 2008 593, São Paulo C) 2008 260 1. (S) RESUMO: Em 10 de novembro às 22:13, o Brasil viveu um apagão que mergulhou 18 dos 27 estados do Brasil nas trevas, [...]

A little of the absurd, funny, creative and unregulated internet in 3 links. (I am so glad every time I find out that this piece of the world wide web is not extinct yet! ) 1- Welcome to zombo com The unnatainable is unknown at zombo com! (and the background music is top! ) 2- [...]

I got this email in my inbox today: WikiLeaks may be under attack. You were generous enough to write to us, but we have not had the labor resources to respond. Your support is important to us. Please read all of this email to understand what is going on. We apologize for not getting back [...]

http://blog.vrijschrift.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/82-Piratendebat.html Downloadverbod. Filteren. Afknijpen. Three strikes out. Bewaarplicht. ACTA. Het vrije internet wordt van vele kanten bedreigd. In het Europees Parlement strijden Piraten en Groenen samen voor de rechten van internetgebruikers. Europa heeft een handvest van digitale burgerrechten nodig, vinden zij. Wat moet er in zo’n Internet Bill of Rights komen te staan? Daarover gaan [...]

Amsterdam, 5 februari 2009 – De grootste privacyschenders van de afgelopen jaren zijn bekendgemaakt. Op vrijdag 5 februari werden tijdens een stampvol symposium de Big Brother Awards 2009 uitgereikt aan Minister Ter Horst, de nieuwe vingerafdrukdatabank, T-Mobile en Vodafone en mobiele naaktscanners van de politie. Met deze prijzen worden elk jaar personen, bedrijven, overheden en [...]

Privacywaakhond Bits of Freedom heeft Minister Hirsch Ballin van Justitie gevraagd om de bodyscan niet in te voeren. De bewindvoerder liet na overleg met de Amerikaanse minister van Binnenlandse Veiligheid weten dat hij de naaktscanners voor alle vluchten naar de Verenigde Staten wil verplichten, om dit later voor alle vluchten van en naar Nederland in [...]

The Expropriation of Digital Labor 
and What to Do About It View more presentations from The New School University. Quotes From the article: Post-Mortem Conference Mashup: The Internet as Playground and Factory  by Trebor Scholz scholzt@newschool.edu … Frequent reference points in the animated conversations included practices like gold farming, game modding, blogging, “turking” on Amazon.com’s Mechanical [...]

Trecho da ‘Carta pela Inovação, Criatividade e Acesso ao Conhecimento‘. http://fcforum.net/ A idéia é de que cada um de nós façamos a promoção dessa carta e a coloquemos em prática. A Cultura Livre amplia drasticamente os espaços de participação cívica, expandindo o leque de indivíduos e grupos capazes de contribuir para os debates públicos. Trata-se, [...]