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[NEXA]Scontri e video, il Tg1 "taglia" il web - Video - Corriere TV
by vale.it＠gmail.com Dec. 17, 2010

Dec. 17, 2010

Interessante. http://video.corriere.it/scontri-video-tg1-taglia-web-/0ea6ce98-09d5-11e0-b… V

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NY Books (Darnton): "The Library: Three Jeremiads"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 17, 2010

Dec. 17, 2010

Il progetto Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) prosegue. Vedere anche: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/digital_public_library juan carlos The Library: Three Jeremiads Robert Darnton <http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/robert-darnton/> When I look back at the plight of American research libraries in 2010, I feel inclined to break into a jeremiad. In fact, I want to deliver three jeremiads, because research libraries are facing crises on three fronts; but instead of prophesying doom, I hope to arrive at a happy ending. I can even begin happily, at least in describing the state of the university library at Harvard. True, the economic crisis hit us hard, so hard that we must do some fundamental reorganizing, but we can take measures to make a great library greater, and we can put our current difficulties into perspective by seeing them in the light of a long history. Having begun in 1638 with the 400 books in John Harvard's library, we now have accumulated nearly 17 million volumes and 400 million manuscript and archival items scattered through 45,000 distinct collections. I could string out the statistics indefinitely. We collect in more than 350 languages and many different formats. We have 12.8 million digital files, more than 100,000 serials, nearly 10 million photographs, online records of 3.4 million zoological specimens, and endlessly rich special collections, including the largest library of Chinese works outside of China (with the exception of the Library of Congress) and more Ukrainian titles than exist in Ukraine. We want to make it possible for other people to consult those collections by digitizing large portions of them and making them available, free of charge, to the rest of the world from an online repository. We group the material around themes such as women at work, immigration, epidemics and disease control, Islamic heritage, and scientific explorations---2.3 million pages in all. This Open Collections Program, as we call it, is part of a general policy of opening up our library to the outside world and sharing our intellectual wealth. The latest project is devoted to reading, its practices and history. It involved the digitization of more than 250,000 pages from manuscripts and rare books, including richly annotated works such as Melville's copy of Emerson's essays and Keats's copy of Shakespeare. [...] Continues here: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/library-three-jeremiad…

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Times: Zuckerberg persona dell'anno
by Paolo Brini Dec. 17, 2010

Dec. 17, 2010

Per la redazione del Times è Zuckerberg la persona dell'anno. Zuckerberg, dai lettori del Times, era stato premiato con meno di 1/5 dei voti riservati ad Assange (che è persona dell'anno per i lettori), e soprattutto con un rating infimo al confronto dell'incredibile 93/100 di Assange. Interessantissima la motivazione data, in cui si legge, fra le altre cose, che Zuckerberg e Assange sarebbero 2 facce della stessa medaglia e si batterebbero entrambi per la trasparenza. Difficile ipotizzare un'allucinazione di massa all'interno del Times (tipo LSD nell'acqua), più facile ipotizzare entusiastici slanci di servilismo nei confronti del regime. Ciao, Paolo

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Pirateria, via libera al testo: siamo contenti?
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Dec. 17, 2010

Dec. 17, 2010

Pirateria, via libera al testo L'authority approva le nuove norme a tutela del copyright: prevista una lista di pagine illegali, rischio oscuramento per chi viola le regole. Il testo sarà sottoposto a consultazione. Gentiloni: "Corretta una rotta sbagliata" http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2010/12/17/news/agcom_pirateria-1032352…

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Re: [nexa] egveny morozov: attacchi DDoS e disobbedienza civile
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Dec. 17, 2010

Dec. 17, 2010

Anzitutto grazie Raffale per la segnalazione. Ho letto lo scambio fra stefano e paolo... Sul tema io ci ho scritto un libro che si chiama Hacktivism e che temo molti di voi non avranno letto visto che è del 2001, ma per aggiungere qualcosa alla discussione e dirvi come la penso vi invito a leggere quello che ho scritto sull'infowar per articolo 21 http://bit.ly/hlBzeu e sull'approccio hacker alla guerra dell'informazione su Il Sole 24 ore: http://www.dicorinto.it/testate/ilsole24ore/con-wiki-senza-amare-julian a presto

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NYTimes: "In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 17, 2010

Dec. 17, 2010

December 16, 2010 In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture By PATRICIA COHEN <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/patricia_cohen…> With little fanfare, Google has made a mammoth database culled from nearly 5.2 million digitized books available to the public for free downloads and online searches, opening a new landscape of possibilities for research and education in the humanities. The digital storehouse, which comprises words and short phrases as well as a year-by-year count of how often they appear, represents the first time a data set of this magnitude and searching tools are at the disposal of Ph.D.'s, middle school students and anyone else who likes to spend time in front of a small screen. It consists of the 500 billion words contained in books published between 1500 and 2008 in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Russian. The intended audience is scholarly, but a simple online tool <http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/> allows anyone with a computer to plug in a string of up to five words and see a graph that charts the phrase's use over time --- a diversion that can quickly become as addictive as the habit-forming game Angry Birds. With a click you can see that "women," in comparison with "men," is rarely mentioned until the early 1970s, when feminism gained a foothold. The lines eventually cross paths about 1986. [...] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html

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Commissario Kroes su cybersecurity
by Paolo Brini Dec. 17, 2010

Dec. 17, 2010

Discorso di Neelie Kroes su trasparenza, cybersecurity, Wikileaks, Anonymous e Low Orbit Ion Cannon. <http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/760&forma…> Ciao, Paolo

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Fw: [Creis_Terminal] L'Etat va vendre nos données personnelles de carte grise : bel exemple pour le droit d'opposition!
by Mariella Berra Dec. 16, 2010

Dec. 16, 2010

A prposito di privatizzazione e di spazi che si restringono voir ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maurice Liscouët" <maurice.liscouet(a)univ-nantes.fr> To: <creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 5:26 PM Subject: [Creis_Terminal] L'Etat va vendre nos données personnelles de carte grise : bel exemple pour le droit d'opposition! http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualite/societe/20101214.OBS4690/l-etat-va… --- Maurice Liscouët _______________________________________________ Creis_terminal mailing list Creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org https://listes.globenet.org/listinfo/creis_terminal

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Repubblica (Zambardino): Nicola D'Angelo: “La libertà non è un procedimento amministrativo”
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 16, 2010

Dec. 16, 2010

D’Angelo (Agcom): “La libertà non è un procedimento amministrativo” <http://zambardino.blogautore.repubblica.it/2010/12/15/dangelo-agcom-il-decr…> /Nicola D’Angelo(bio) <http://www2.agcom.it/intro_/commiss_dangelo.htm> è consigliere dell’Autorità per le comunicazioni. Ha accettato di discutere con noi dei problemi posti dall’attuazione del decreto Romani su web, web tv/radio e download (peer to peer)./ *Dottor d’Angelo, lei, come consigliere AgCom, è entrato perfino nei dispacci di Wikileaks, con una dichiarazione sul decreto Romani… Hanno riferito correttamente il suo pensiero? Lei aveva parlato con queste persone?* No, non c’è stato alcun colloquio. Credo che si siano serviti di qualche intervista, ma devo dire che non hanno scritto inesattezze su ciò che penso. *Venerdì 17 il Consiglio si riunirà. Varerete un’altra bozza di regolamento. Non c’è molta chiarezza, sia nella rete che nei media, di ciò che effettivamente si discute.* Il regolamento di cui si è discusso nelle settimane passate riguardava le web radio e la web tv e trattava dei servizi televisivi cosiddetti lineari e non lineari <http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televisione>. Su quello schema io mi ero dimesso da relatore, perché ritenevo non accettabili i contenuti inseriti nella bozza. All’atto della pubblicazione del regolamento, vedremo esattamente la portata del testo. Venerdì prossimo invece si parla della normativa sul diritto d’autore. Il testo che sarà approvato dopodomani andrà poi in consultazione. Ma nella bozza che circola ci sono elementi sui quali sono molto critico che spero possano cambiare. *Può specificare il suo dissenso?* Credo sia inutile premettere che il diritto d’autore vada tutelato. E’ giusto, ma bisogna trovare forme di tutela che devono tuttavia essere adeguate alle forme tecnologiche che la rete ha dato alla diffusione dei contenuti. Dove comincia il dissenso è che, con l’intento di tutelare il diritto d’autore, si arrivi a pensare che l’autorità debba ricevere dai fornitori di accesso tutti i dati di traffico degli utenti. La stessa autorità dovrebbe poi capire se siano ravvisabili in quei dati degli usi illeciti. [...] Continua qui: http://zambardino.blogautore.repubblica.it/2010/12/15/dangelo-agcom-il-decr…

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Morozov: "Should we oppose sit-ins just because crazy people can abuse them?"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Dec. 16, 2010

Dec. 16, 2010

Fino a questo articolo - superbo - avevo trovato Morozov piuttosto simile ai vari Lanier e Carr, ovvero, coloro che stanno cavalcando l'onda "Internet-ci-rende-stupidi". Da quello che leggo qui, e' invece chiaramente di un altro livello. Da leggere e meditare. juan carlos Should we oppose sit-ins just because crazy people can abuse them? <http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/12/16/should_we_ban_sit_ins_b…> Posted By Evgeny Morozov <http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/blog/5386> Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 10:54 AM<http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=20> I am still trying to untangle the numerous moral complexities involved in DDoS attacks. Two arguments stand out in particular. First - and I briefly touched upon this subject in my previous post <http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/12/14/more_on_ddos_as_civil_d…> - some Internet experts fear that participating in DDoS attacks, even if one has morally justifiable reasons for doing so, might make DDoS a more acceptable form of silencing dissent. As such, anyone participating in DDoS -- even if they have perfectly good reasons for doing so -- should first consider the indirect consequences of popularizing DDoS as a tactic. (I have written about DDoS as a new censorship mechanism on numerous occasions -- see, for example, the story <http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/08/07/is_cyxymu_the_first_dig…> of the Georgian blogger Cyxymu.) Let's leave philosophy aside for a moment and just use some common sense. Would we advise anyone participating in lunch-counter sit-ins during the civil rights era not to do it because it may popularize sit-ins as a tactic that might be abused by all sorts of crazy people and criminals? I don't think so: just because one can organize a sit-in to block an entrance to the offices of ACLU to protest their defense of civil liberties would hardly be a factor in deciding whether to block an entrance to the offices of the Department of Defense to protest a war. Why is DDoS different? Arguably, physical civil disobedience is often much easier to conduct than its virtual counterpart: having 100 people show up and block entrance to Amazon's offices, on average, is far more effective than having the same 100 people launch DDoS attacks on its web-site. Sure, there are oddballs like Jester, who claims to have taken the entire WikiLeaks with a solo DoS attack; but such people are not exactly missing from the offline domain. Cindy Sheehan <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Sheehan> has been quite effective acting solo - is it a reason to impose a moratorium on acts of civil disobedience? I don't think so. I think that those who worry about the adverse effects of popularizing DDoS as a tactic misunderstand what civil disobedience is (moreover, I'm not sure they understand the distinction between its direct and indirect varieties). Civil disobedience involves breaches of law by /definition; /anyone lamenting the popularization of DDoS as a tactic is only lamenting the fact that those practicing it would violate the rule of law. But what such critics do not seem to understand is that for a breach of law to count as civil disobedience its perpetrators should be willing to accept the consequences, get arrested and serve jail time if this if what the law demands. Submitting oneself to the rule of law after breaching it /*is*/the /compensatory/act that makes such acts morally permissible. [...] Continua qui: http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/12/16/should_we_ban_sit_ins_b…

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