MediaShift Opinion January 31, 2011 By Kat Aaron The newspaper industry has been buffeted by the advent of the Internet, but it would be unwise of them, says journalist Kat Aaron, to stand by without fighting for net neutrality and a free and open Internet. -db Tagged:
A small claims court judge dismissed an emotional distress lawsuit against the University of California Berkeley daily newspaper noting that the statute of limitation had expired. -db Student Press Law Center January 28, 2011 By Nathan Hardin CALIFORNIA — A judge on Wednesday dismissed an emotional distress lawsuit against the editor in chief of the Daily Californian. Rajesh Srinivasan was sued in a Fresno County small-claims court by podiatrist Harvey Purtz over articles written about
Los Angeles Times January 29, 2011 With a few phone calls to the likes of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, the Egyptian government stymied the social media, effectively limiting its role in organizing the demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak. -db
Egypt today closed down the country’s last working internet service–the ISP that provided technological services to aviation, banking and financial sectors in the country and the American University in Cairo–according to the Wall Street Journal’s Dispatches blog. Egypt’s actions have inspired US technology bloggers to ponder what to do in the event the US government threw the hypothetical (or maybe not so hypothetical) kill switch. PC World has an Internet hotwiring roundup–including links to FidoNet,
Wired January 31, 2011 In the aftermath of the Egyptian government’s switching off Internet access, Wired offers a manuel for preventing the shutdown and if it does materialize despite your efforts, how to get back online. -db