Well, it’s the end of an academic year, and I’m thinking about these “links.” Should I continue them? Should I keep on with certain categories of them? I’m not sure. I think I’m going to take a break from them for the summer, and have a think about what’s really important to digital culture. I’m not sure that “security” really is, nor “copyright / patent” either. I’ll have a think about it – and see whether I can resist flagging those particular categories of link as important. Meanwhile, if there’s anything which is important that you think I’m missing, please do let me know.
- Saving Lives With Google Maps–Disaster-Tracking Software Developed by Abertay Student 18 May 2012, 9:01 pm
- Law Enforcers, Privacy Advocates Debate Cell Phone Data Bill 18 May 2012, 8:51 pm
- Hey ITU Member States: No More Secrecy, Release the Treaty proposals 18 May 2012, 5:14 pm
- Swedish Telcom Giant Teliasonera Caught Helping Authoritarian Regimes Spy on Their Citizens 18 May 2012, 4:41 pm
- Local Governments Have the Power to Restrict Drone Surveillance in the US 18 May 2012, 2:08 pm
- Top Handset Maker Confirms Backdoor in One of Its Models 18 May 2012, 10:58 am
- Facebook Sued For $15 Billion In Suit Over User Tracking 18 May 2012, 10:24 am
- Microsoft to charge customers $99 to remove OEM ‘crapware’ 18 May 2012, 6:32 am
- ICO: no fines for breaking cookie rules (EU) 18 May 2012, 6:30 am
- NIH study finds that coffee drinkers have lower risk of death 18 May 2012, 6:17 am
- London police collecting cellphone data 18 May 2012, 5:59 am
- Is aging a disease? 18 May 2012, 5:51 am
- Israel’s Butterfly UAVs 18 May 2012, 5:38 am
- GitLaw: GitHub for Laws and Legal Documents – a Tourniquet for American Liberty 18 May 2012, 5:35 am
- TED and inequality: The real story 18 May 2012, 4:53 am
- 25 petabytes bringing storage firm, court case to the brink of collapse 18 May 2012, 3:38 am
- Kindergarten Teacher Earns $700,000 by Selling Lesson Plans Online 18 May 2012, 1:16 am
- Patenting statistical techniques? Can you say WTF? 18 May 2012, 1:16 am
- Turkey kills school books, moves to tablet in all schools 18 May 2012, 1:15 am
- Coping With Preservation and Proportionality in Legal Holds 18 May 2012, 1:14 am
- It’s Tinkerers v. Hollywood as Copyright Office Mulls New Jailbreaking Rules 17 May 2012, 2:51 pm
- With New Privacy Policy, Twitter Commits to Respecting Do Not Track 17 May 2012, 1:56 pm
- To Warrant or Not to Warrant? ACLU, Police Clash Over Cellphone Location Data 17 May 2012, 12:02 pm
- The Dictator’s practical Internet guide to power retention 17 May 2012, 11:05 am
- Float-Tank Therapy: Experiencing Sensory Deprivation 17 May 2012, 11:05 am
- Apple is Filtering “Jailbreak” Term in the US iTunes Store 17 May 2012, 11:04 am
- BitTorrent Piracy Boosts Music Sales, Study Finds 17 May 2012, 10:58 am
- Indian Supreme Court website hacked in response to TPB, Vimeo block 17 May 2012, 10:56 am
- Twitter Implements Do Not Track Privacy Option 17 May 2012, 10:41 am
- Coffee drinking linked to longer life 17 May 2012, 10:41 am
- Seventh Circuit Addresses Audio Recordings and the First Amendment 17 May 2012, 10:10 am
- We got a takedown notice from LifeShield for our positive review 17 May 2012, 7:38 am
- How Pixar Almost Lost Toy Story 2 To A Bad Backup 17 May 2012, 6:13 am
- Work Is Work: Why Free Internships Are Immoral 17 May 2012, 6:13 am
- Top judge: ditching software patents a “bad solution” 17 May 2012, 5:17 am
- Full Distributed Teams: are they viable? 17 May 2012, 4:28 am
- Study: Teens Think Your eBooks Are Lame, Prefer Actual Books 17 May 2012, 4:25 am
- If You Can Copyright an API, What Else Can You Copyright? 17 May 2012, 3:48 am
- If you’re seeing ads on Wikipedia, your computer probably has malware 17 May 2012, 3:47 am
- SocialCam’s shady secret 17 May 2012, 3:47 am
- How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing ‘Terrorists’ 17 May 2012, 3:34 am
- ACTA deathwatch: profs call process unconstitutional, Europe revolts 17 May 2012, 2:26 am
- How DNA Site 23andMe Outed Parents Who Gave Up Their First Baby 17 May 2012, 1:53 am
- Cyber-intelligence bill sponsor silent on FBI push to wiretap social networks 17 May 2012, 1:13 am
- Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality 17 May 2012, 1:04 am
- Justice Dept. Defends Public’s Constitutional ‘Right to Record’ Cops 16 May 2012, 5:01 pm
- U.S. Law Professors Cast Further Doubt on ACTA’s Constitutionality – State Department Confirms No ACTA Pre-Review 16 May 2012, 1:07 pm
- Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Mind 16 May 2012, 10:15 am
- Scientists Make Bird Flu Transmissible Between Humans Then Tell World How To Do It 16 May 2012, 7:22 am
- GM Says Facebook Ads Don’t Work, Pulls $10 Million Account 16 May 2012, 5:02 am
- Renouncing citizenship: Did Eduardo Saverin do anything wrong? 16 May 2012, 5:00 am
- How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit 16 May 2012, 4:56 am
- Banned PlayStation Hacker Sees Hope of Return in Jailbreaking Deliberations 16 May 2012, 3:30 am
- ACLU Warns State Dept. Against Firing Worker Who Criticized Government 15 May 2012, 2:35 pm
- Popular Surveillance Cameras Open to Hackers, Researcher Says 15 May 2012, 3:00 am
- Dell Apologizes for Hiring ‘Shut Up Bitch’ Moderator 15 May 2012, 2:27 am
- Google Shuts Down Conservative Blog 15 May 2012, 1:31 am
- They’re Not ‘Orphan Works’, They’re ‘Hostage Works’ 15 May 2012, 1:30 am
- Finnish court: open WiFi owners not responsible for copyright infringement 15 May 2012, 1:30 am
- How to harden your smartphone against stalkers—Android edition 14 May 2012, 5:30 pm
- TPP: Internet Freedom Activists Protest Secret Trade Agreement Being Negotiated This Week 14 May 2012, 4:06 pm
- DHS Considers Collecting DNA From Kids; DEA and US Marshals Already Do 14 May 2012, 1:45 pm
- Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived 14 May 2012, 11:31 am
- Yahoo chief executive steps down 14 May 2012, 4:35 am
- Darwin’s Creepiest Experiment Brought Back to Life 14 May 2012, 3:30 am
- Comic for May 14, 2012 13 May 2012, 10:00 pm
- Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic 13 May 2012, 5:49 am
- Dress code: blue tie and male 13 May 2012, 5:43 am
- 700,000 CA social services records lost—on microfiche 12 May 2012, 8:00 pm
- Does Thinking About God Improve Our Self-Control? 12 May 2012, 3:47 pm
- Motorman: Britain’s other massive press scandal 12 May 2012, 2:56 pm
- Younger Generation Embracing A New View Of Privacy 12 May 2012, 9:16 am
- Why we need to keep talking about women in tech 12 May 2012, 7:15 am
- Dutch Judge Who Ordered Pirate Bay Links Censored Has Conflict of Interest 12 May 2012, 6:16 am
- It’s OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Microsoft does it 11 May 2012, 12:34 pm
- Court Upholds Google-NSA Relationship Secrecy 11 May 2012, 12:29 pm
- How dumb court decisions made it impossible to sample like the Beastie Boys 11 May 2012, 11:19 am
- The First Photograph 11 May 2012, 10:59 am
- NY Twitter Decision Fails to Recognize Content and Location Data Require a Warrant 11 May 2012, 10:57 am
- Facebook Co-Founder Gives Up U.S. Citizenship 11 May 2012, 9:49 am
- Email ‘Vacations’ Decrease Stress, Increase Concentration 11 May 2012, 9:44 am
- Despite State Oversight, Vote-Counting Errors Abound 11 May 2012, 9:42 am
- And the Privacy Invasion Award Goes To … 11 May 2012, 9:32 am
- Kinect Cameras Watch for Autism 11 May 2012, 9:29 am
- Safeguarding East Germany’s Dark Past: Agency Chief Says Stasi Archive Should Stay Open 11 May 2012, 9:29 am
- On Diaspora’s Social Network, You Own Your Data 11 May 2012, 8:44 am
- The FBI took — and mysteriously returned — their server 11 May 2012, 6:02 am
- My Doctor’s Office Asked Me To Lie 11 May 2012, 4:55 am
- Insurance for All: Germans Can’t Fathom US Aversion to Obama’s Healthcare Reform 11 May 2012, 3:51 am
- Chomsky – Jobs aren’t coming back 11 May 2012, 2:56 am
- United Kingdom – Open letter to Members of Parliament on Internet surveillance 11 May 2012, 2:54 am
- Video streaming & net neutrality 11 May 2012, 2:52 am
- Cyber Briefings ‘Scare The Bejeezus’ Out Of CEOs 11 May 2012, 2:42 am
- Mozilla: Microsoft bans Firefox on ARM-based Windows 11 May 2012, 2:36 am
- In war for talent, ‘brogrammers’ will be losers 11 May 2012, 2:20 am
- Unpaid Internships: Bad for Students, Bad for Workers, Bad for Society 11 May 2012, 2:20 am
- Pay To “Highlight” Your Facebook Status Updates To More Friends 11 May 2012, 2:12 am
- Few Companies Fight Patriot Act Gag Orders, FBI Admits 10 May 2012, 3:58 pm
- California, Congress Move to Keep Facebook Passwords Private From Employers 10 May 2012, 2:57 pm
- 3 days before elections, largest German state censors Pirate Party from the net 10 May 2012, 2:46 pm
- Top U.S. Officer: Stop This ‘Total War’ on Islam Talk 10 May 2012, 12:50 pm
- When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed 10 May 2012, 10:49 am
- EFF to Testify at Hearings on Expanding DMCA Exemptions for Jailbreaking and Video Remixing 10 May 2012, 10:35 am
- Obama backs same-sex marriage 10 May 2012, 7:44 am
- U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam 10 May 2012, 1:00 am
- Apple Must Face Privacy Class Action over Smartphone Apps 10 May 2012, 12:53 am
- USPTO Validates RPost’s Registered Email Patent 10 May 2012, 12:40 am
- Myspace Settles With FTC Over Personal Data Privacy Charges 10 May 2012, 12:39 am
- FBI Fears Bitcoin’s Popularity with Criminals 9 May 2012, 7:51 pm
- Twitter Fights Back Against NY Judge’s Sweeping Order 9 May 2012, 3:10 pm
- The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don’t make sense anymore 9 May 2012, 2:42 pm
- Diabetic teen upset with TSA screeners at Salt Lake City Airport 9 May 2012, 2:28 pm
- Revenge of the pirates: Anonymous downs Pirate Bay censor 9 May 2012, 2:25 pm
- Searching the bottom of the web 9 May 2012, 2:21 pm
- Illinois Barred From Enforcing Police Eavesdropping Law 9 May 2012, 1:48 pm
- Law Professors Call for TPP Transparency 9 May 2012, 1:21 pm
- Search Results Protected by First Amendment, Google-Funded Analysis Says 9 May 2012, 12:47 pm
- Implanted User Interface Gives Patients New Options 9 May 2012, 9:49 am
- The bulk of all human utterances is plagiarism 9 May 2012, 7:37 am
- Drug-Defying Germs From India Speed Post-Antibiotic Era 9 May 2012, 6:29 am
- Queen’s Speech: Internet monitoring plan to have ‘strict safeguards’ 9 May 2012, 6:21 am
- New Defamation Bill ‘to protect freedom of speech’ 9 May 2012, 5:08 am
- Yahoo Board Member Out Over CEO’s Bogus Résumé 9 May 2012, 4:18 am
- Argentine government setting agenda by using fake Twitter accounts 9 May 2012, 4:16 am
- Study explains how retailers stop Linux from entering the market 9 May 2012, 4:16 am
- Netherlands first country in Europe with net neutrality 9 May 2012, 4:12 am
- I’m calling this Bubble 2.0, and it’s ready to burst 9 May 2012, 4:11 am
- Out of Bulgaria and Romania: Wave of Immigrants Overwhelms German System 9 May 2012, 4:11 am
- Laboring under the Nazis: German High Court to Address Ghetto Pensions 9 May 2012, 1:53 am
- North Carolina bans gay marriages 9 May 2012, 1:46 am
- Ten Thousand 8 May 2012, 9:00 pm
- Twitter Hits Back at Court, Prosecutors Over ‘Occupy’ Order 8 May 2012, 3:45 pm
- Pirates Beware: DVD Anti-Piracy Warning Now Twice as Fierce 8 May 2012, 3:45 pm
- FTC Slaps Myspace for Privacy Breaches 8 May 2012, 12:36 pm
- Writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak dies 8 May 2012, 12:35 pm
- Principal Accused of Spying on Students, Parents With Fake Facebook Account 8 May 2012, 11:45 am
- Oops! Air Force Drones Can Now (Accidentally) Spy on You 8 May 2012, 9:56 am
- Count Roadkill From Your Bike for Science 8 May 2012, 9:32 am
- TPP Exposed: a Video to Raise Awareness about the Agreement’s Secretive Negotiations 8 May 2012, 9:27 am
- Database of Fallen Soldiers: Germany Still Locates 40,000 War Casualties a Year 8 May 2012, 9:10 am
- The Great Outdoors Is Good for Allergies 8 May 2012, 8:00 am
- UK Considering Requiring a License to View Porn 8 May 2012, 6:36 am
- Dying to be thin: Anorexia in Japan 8 May 2012, 6:35 am
- Have we got news for you: Iris scanners make the news 8 May 2012, 6:13 am
- This Week in Transparency: Drones, Secret Surveillance, and Classifying the Wizard of Oz 8 May 2012, 1:12 am
- This Week in Internet Censorship: A Resignation in the Palestinian Authority, China Tries to Make a Blind Man Disappear, and Vietnam Prepares to Attack Anonymous Speech 7 May 2012, 10:45 pm
- Seized Hip-Hop Site Lashes Out At Feds, RIAA 7 May 2012, 8:19 pm
- Homeland Security Concedes Airport Body Scanner ‘Vulnerabilities’ 7 May 2012, 3:45 pm
- Congress Funds Killer Drones the Air Force Says It Can’t Handle 7 May 2012, 1:52 pm
- Americans’ Challenge to No-Fly List Gets Day in Court 7 May 2012, 1:17 pm
- Oracle v. Google and the Dangerous Implications of Treating APIs as Copyrightable 7 May 2012, 12:52 pm
- Good Citizenship for Online Service Providers: Let’s Not Let the DailyKos Takedown Be a Preview of the 2012 Campaign Season 7 May 2012, 11:23 am
- Will edX Put Harvard and MIT Out of Business? 7 May 2012, 9:48 am
- Kroes Throws in Towel on ACTA 7 May 2012, 4:04 am
- The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps 7 May 2012, 3:58 am
- Doramad Radioactive Toothpaste 7 May 2012, 3:49 am
- EFF Urges Appeals Court to Protect Forums Allowing Users to Speak Online 7 May 2012, 12:14 am
- Every Major’s Terrible 6 May 2012, 9:00 pm
- Leave only footprints: how Google’s ethical ignorance gets it in trouble 6 May 2012, 1:22 pm
- Google Could Face $10 Million Fine For Tracking Safari Users 6 May 2012, 8:45 am
- Reddit’s TestPAC is campaigning to defeat Lamar Smith, SOPA’s daddy 6 May 2012, 8:39 am
- Nightclub security uses Facebook for identification 6 May 2012, 8:27 am
- The Internet Kill Switch; With Global Wiretapping Capability? 6 May 2012, 7:47 am
- Elsevier’s recent update to its letter to the mathematical community 6 May 2012, 7:38 am
- Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropriate’ Comments 6 May 2012, 7:35 am
- Google Argues Authors’ Group Lacks Standing in Copyright Suit 4 May 2012, 10:14 pm
- Make Every Day a Day Against DRM 4 May 2012, 2:35 pm
- FBI pushing for surveillance backdoors on websites 4 May 2012, 12:22 pm
- DOJ Official: Any Privacy Protection is Too Much Privacy Protection for Cell Phone Tracking 4 May 2012, 12:19 pm
- Day Against DRM 4 May 2012, 10:20 am
- UK to science publishers: don’t follow recording industry down the tubes 4 May 2012, 10:17 am
- As An Author, Why I Truly Hate Ebook DRM 4 May 2012, 10:06 am
- DRM-Free Day, forever. 4 May 2012, 10:06 am
- Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement 4 May 2012, 10:04 am
- B&N Removes Magazine From Nook Store Due To Feature Article On 'Hacking' 4 May 2012, 10:04 am
- Taps and Rhythms Replace Keyboard Shortcuts 4 May 2012, 10:02 am
- Twitter Cannot Predict Elections Either 4 May 2012, 10:00 am
- Echoes of News Corp. in the FCC’s Report on Google Street View 4 May 2012, 5:05 am
- Yahoo CEO might have lied about having CS degree 4 May 2012, 4:33 am
- Google’s Fiber Makes MPAA Skittish. 4 May 2012, 3:45 am
- Judge Alsup asks Oracle/Google to brief API issue in light of new EU ruling 4 May 2012, 3:36 am
- May 04, 2012 3 May 2012, 9:00 pm
- Malicious apps hosted in Google store turn Android phones into zombies 3 May 2012, 5:45 pm
- Unsealed Court Records Confirm that RIAA Delays Were Behind Year-Long Seizure of Hip Hop Music Blog 3 May 2012, 4:42 pm
- World Press Freedom Day: The U.S. Must Lead By Example 3 May 2012, 4:22 pm
- The EU Cookie Law 3 May 2012, 9:39 am
- Why CISPA is a threat to the world 3 May 2012, 9:36 am
- Macho cultures are fairer for women 3 May 2012, 9:35 am
- Religious Sites are Worst for Malware, Report Finds 3 May 2012, 9:33 am
- Judge: An IP-Address Doesn’t Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate) 3 May 2012, 5:08 am
- Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index 3 May 2012, 4:25 am
- Getting Beaten by a Voting Bot in 50 Minutes 3 May 2012, 3:48 am
- Reddit: Where women strip for Internet money 3 May 2012, 3:43 am
- Bronze Age Espionage: Did Ancient Germans Steal the Pharaoh’s Chair Design? 3 May 2012, 3:40 am
- ISPs Improve Their DNS Hijacking And How To Stop It 3 May 2012, 3:37 am
- Comic for May 3, 2012 2 May 2012, 10:00 pm
- Special 301 Report 2012: The USTR’s Bogus List of Countries That “Don’t Enforce” Copyrights 2 May 2012, 4:49 pm
- 2007 raids on console mod-chippers result in indictments nearly 5 years later 1 May 2012, 9:55 am
- Release of exploit code puts Oracle Database users at risk of attack 30 April 2012, 1:35 pm
- 90% of popular SSL sites vulnerable to exploits, researchers find 26 April 2012, 1:15 pm
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I’ve never been able to get through all of them, even though they are categories of interest to me. I find myself skimming through and selecting 1-2 to read. At the same time, I wouldn’t have come across them otherwise so they have been educational for me. So that’s how a reader uses them, but of course this is your space and you should use it as you like!