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Akhter belongs to a motley band of “InfoLadies,” who are piloting a revolutionary idea - giving millions of Bangladeshis, trapped in a cycle of poverty and natural disaster, access to information on their doorstep to improve their chances in life.

Living Paintings by Alexa Meade

Moodleman looks at Mahara

“ A while back, I was talking with a teenage girl about her privacy settings and noticed that she had made lots of content available to friends-of-friends. I asked her if she made her content available to her mother. She responded with, “of course not!” I had noticed that she had listed her aunt as a friend of hers and so I surfed with her to her aunt’s page and pointed out that her mother was a friend of her aunt, thus a friend-of-a-friend. She was horrified. It had never dawned on her that her mother might be included in that grouping.

— danah boyd - Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant)
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/05/14/facebook-and-radical-transparency-a-rant.html

“Walking on Eggshells” is a 24-minute documentary about appropriation, creative influence, re-use and intellectual property in the remix age. It is a conversation among various musicians, visual artists, writers and lawyers, all sharing their views on why and how we use and create culture, and how intellectual property law, originally designed to provide people with incentives to create, sometimes hinders creative production far more than it enhances it.

Student project from CPSC 184: Intellectual Property in the Digital Age at Yale

Walking On Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age (PART 2/3)

Walking On Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age (PART 3/3)

“ Nowhere in the Constitution does it say, “Congress shall give away the public’s priceless assets to companies and then sit around sucking its collective thumb while the companies screw the public.” If AT&T and Comcast don’t want to give us the service we want, let them buy every inch of conduit and right-of-way at market prices. Until then, they can STFU and give us the network we demand.

— I love it when Cory gets pissed, especially about Net Neutrality.

Dewanatron Electrical Instruments

The pedagogy of tinkering

yes, more Hitler meme…

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