I wonder what Tim Berners Lee thinks of that. Sarkozy of France decided to ‘cut off the Internet’ on anyone who downloads music or any ‘illegal’ downloads:
music and films without paying for them could find their web access shut down by a government body, under a ground-breaking industry agreement backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy. [link]
I am sure the Bush admin will be very pleased. They now have a ‘buddy’ in supporting corporate interests.
I created a new wiki on social networking. Please visit the wiki and contribute if you would like. The wiki discusses the phenomenon of social networking from its initial evolution through IMs and chats to its current form of social tagging and metaverses.
It is at http://socialnets.wikispaces.com
Yet another social networking site – I can’t keep up with them any more:
According to its website, Cluztr lets you share your web-browsing with your friends and discover new sites and people relevant to you and your interests.
* See who’s on the same web page as you.
* Find out what sites your friends are visiting and follow them around the web.
* Chat and leave messages on any website you visit.
A conference in Rio de Janeiro will start Monday to discuss cyber crime including pedophilia and will be discussing the digital divide/digital inclusion. The conference is entitled the UN Internet Governance Forum, a product of the World Summit that took place in Tunisia in 2005. Among its topics is, of course, governance issues on the internet. It is expected that
2,000 participants from 100 countries will examine ways to tackle pedophilia and cybercrime. [The conference] will also discuss the implications of more than 80 percent of the world’s population not having access to the worldwide network, mainly those in developing countries.
Apparently ‘millions of pedophiles’ have been enabled by the openness of the Internet and have been able to connect and form networks:
The US Congress also gave information recently that hinted at the size of the problem. According to an agent in the Justice Department’s special crimes investigation bureau, the Internet has allowed “maybe millions” of pedophiles in the world to form a network online. [link]
For more information on the Forum, visit their official website.
I just found this really interesting feature: a web 2.0 presentation site that allows you to create and show your presentations online. Pretty cool, huh?.
You can embed your presentation or keep it on their server or put it in a webpage. See samples of some presentations online. They have interesting themes too.