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• Blue Mountain Arts Polis of Web 1.0 and His First Year as a Congressman in Web 2.0

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 689
  While in Washington, D.C. last week, one of BoomTown’s last stops was at the office of Colorado Democratic Congressman Jared Polis on Capitol Hill. Although I usually try avoid politicians at all costs, it was terrific to check in with Polis, who was one of the more interesting players in the Web 1.0 scene. His ...
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• Accused filesharers to be given right of appeal, says minster

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  A new clause in the digital economy bill will introduce an appeals procedure for people accused of piracy The government will allow people and companies accused of illicit filesharing to appeal before they are disconnected, under new measures to be introduced in the digital economy bill , said Stephen Timms, the ...
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• Is Health Care Reform Constitutional?

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 139
  Last seen reminding state agencies how they can and should legally discriminate against homosexuals, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is already promising to file a legal challenge to tonight’s health care bill. This of course leads us to another exciting round of “Is Health Care Reform ...
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• Obama, I Mean Chavez, Denies He’s Trying To Control Internet

  
  Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Authority: 616
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denied that the government plans to impose controls on the Internet, saying Sunday that his administration aims to increase Web access rather than limit it. Earlier this month, Chavez sparked concerns of a possible crackdown on Web sites critical of his ...
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• they’ve burnt Google brand in China, ex-Google China executive says

  
  D' Technology Weblog — Authority: 559
  Google Inc. would probably ‘peramnently withdraw’ from China market instead of abiding by country’s censorship laws. Google is likely to officially announce their plans on March 22 to pull out of China on April 10, Shanghai-based China Business News reported. Gabriel Stricker, a spokesman for Mountain View, ...
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• Open letter: Wash-up not appropriate for controversial disconnection proposals

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The digital economy bill is a highly controversial bill. Many of us believe that it threatens to severely infringe fundamental human rights, by allowing the disconnection of internet accounts for alleged copyright infringement, and also by new website blocking laws that could result in new ways to suppress free speech ...
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• Rush to pass digital bill will sidestep democracy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • Read the letter in full A group of senior public figures have called on the government to abandon its plan to push through controversial digital economy bill before the election, amid claims that the move could "sidestep" the democratic process. Earlier this week the government revealed that it wants to force ...
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• >>Obamanation and the Internet

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 432
  I have warned before that these people are attacking America on several fronts at the same time.  They tend to get the people focused and bogged down on one issue and go full speed ahead on another.  They also prefer to “slip” entire take overs or pieces of the “puzzles” as I have referred to them  into ...
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• National Broadband Plan Guru Blair Levin Speaks! (Plus the Press Release and Exec Summary)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 689
  While trolling around Washington, D.C. this past week, BoomTown dropped in on Blair Levin, the executive director of the National Broadband Plan, the opus just released by the Federal Communications Commission. Aimed primarily at boosting the proliferation of high-speed access across the United States, the plan has ...
  3 days ago

• Now lets visualise how the Digital Economy bill has changed..

  
  Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 136
  A simple programming tool is helpful in understanding whats changed - but we really need some proper internet-enabled means of viewing bills, as MySociety points out When programmers are working on code and want to see how the old and new versions compare, they use a program called "diff" to do a line-by-line ...
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• President Clinton Talks About His Internet Legacy (BTW, Hes an iPhone Dude, While the GOPs #41 Is a BlackBerry Teen)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 689
  Here is a video I did of former President Bill Clinton talking at an event related to the 25th anniversary of the first .com domain registration. Clinton gave a keynote speech first–which was inexplicably about healthcare legislation and then global warming. But, after it was done, he sat down with VeriSign ...
  4 days ago

• UTSU Election 2010: Not Web 2.0 Friendly

  
  blogUT — Authority: 123
  During UTSU elections it is always a good idea to step back from all the Orwellian0-sounded Solidarity and Unspecified Change and look at the election process itself. Like any municipal election, byelection or election in an authoritarian state, the University of Toronto Students’ Union elections tend to have a ...
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• Tweet the People: Twitter VC Wilson and Federal CTO Chopra Talk Policy in D.C.

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 689
  Ms. BoomTown went to Washington, D.C. this week to moderate a panel at an event here on the 25th anniversary of the first .com domain , looking at the future of the digital arena. Surprisingly, the panelists–Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson, Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra, Huffington Post Founder Arianna ...
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• When tweets can make you a jailbird (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 540
  AP – Maxi Sopo was having so much fun “living in paradise” in Mexico that he posted about it on Facebook … Here is the original: (AP)"> (AP)">When tweets can make you a jailbird (AP)
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• Election 2010: your chance to get involved

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The Guardian is teaming up with two leading online communities with the aim of creating a network of collaborators The 2010 general election will give British voters unprecedented power to shape the political agenda. As last years presidential vote in the United States demonstrated, politicians and the media no ...
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• Digital economy bill: Online piracy law unlikely to face major scrutiny

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Websites that host pirated content could be blocked as government rushes to get bill into law before election The government is planning to introduce controversial measures that would force internet companies to block websites that host substantial amounts of pirated content as it scrambles to get its digital economy ...
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• Ambitious plan seeks to make US a broadband leader (AFP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 540
  AFP – US regulators have unveiled details of an ambitious plan designed to vault the United States into… See the rest here: (AFP)"> (AFP)">Ambitious plan seeks to make US a broadband leader (AFP)
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• IRAN shuts down dissident websites

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 146
  Government moves to silence criticism it says is CIA funded The government in Tehran has closed down 29 websites associated with dissident political groups. The government FARS news organization said the sites were funded by the CIA.The government hacked the sites to detect who was running them and who used the sites. ...
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• Fear over rushed digital economy bill

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The controversial digital economy bill has moved a step closer to becoming law after the House of Lords last night approved the proposals - but critics say the legislation is in danger of being rushed through parliament. Despite reservations from a number of peers, the scheme - which includes the contentious three ...
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• Monday Night

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 139
  * Health care update: With only 219 “no” votes on health reform, maximum, momentum shifts toward passage. Pro-Life Dems Start Breaking In Pelosi’s Direction. InTrade Betting on ‘Obamacare.’ “I believe we have the votes.” * Virginia’s Attorney General flirts with birtherism. * With his ...
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