I just got done listening to the JISC podcast “The Google Generation: Myth or Reality?“, and it seems like the key thing discussed in it (I haven’t had time to read the report) crosses over with some of what Andrew Keen discusses in The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture: [...]

(HT to CircleID) bytelevel has produced a map of the world based on all of the Country Code – Top Level Domain Names (cc-TLDs). http://bytelevel.com/map/ It even includes the oddballs such as Bouvet Island (.bv)!

The International Herald Tribune has a great article on the dispute before the WTO on gambling between Antigua and Barbuda and the United States. Online gambling case pits Antigua against U.S. and challenges WTO, By Gary Rivlin It lays out the angles that you wouldn’t see in just reading the case documents. My favorite quote [...]

Via email from the WTO: WTO ISSUES COMPLIANCE PANEL REPORT ON GAMBLING DISPUTE The WTO, on 30 March 2007, issued the report of the compliance panel in the case brought by Antigua and Barbuda regarding “United States – Measures affecting the cross-border supply of gambling and betting services” (DS285). Download: Panel report in Word format: [...]

As mentioned in my earlier post, EFF-Austin is meeting on the 15th at Cafe Caffeine in Austin. Full details, for those interested, below the fold.

Via Boing Boing, the WiFi Liberator is: …an open-source toolkit for a laptop computer that enables its user to “liberate” pay-per-use wireless networks and create a free, open node that anyone can connect to for Internet access. [Link]. The idea is that one person pays for use, and then shares that connection with others. This [...]

Two Scottish firms, Patent and Trade Mark powerhouse Marks & Clerk and Pinsent Masons — who are big on IT issues and publish the excellent OUT-LAW — are expanding their operations in China. [The Herald]. For those of you in and around Austin, EFF-Austin’s next general meeting will be on 15 February at Cafe Caffeine, [...]