Links

Not that many links for you this week – it seems the media is focused on Japan and nuclear issues rather than the usual topics of the Links I gather. Enjoy!

Censorship:

• Digging too Deep: Journalist Arrests a Blow for Press Freedom in Turkey    15 March 2011, 9:25 am
• Thailand – 13 years in prison for posting three messages on website criticizing king    17 March 2011, 9:46 am
• Bloggers say they’ll have role in new Tunisia    18 March 2011, 8:32 am

Education:

• Open Educational Resources – and generally open stuff…    16 March 2011, 7:05 pm
• Digital Gaming Goes Academic    18 March 2011, 9:16 am

FOI:

• Sunshine Week: Do Open Government Laws Still Matter in the Era of WikiLeaks?    13 March 2011, 10:44 pm
• It’s Sunshine Week, But Obama’s Transparency Record Is Cloudy    14 March 2011, 1:11 pm
• EFF Seeks Cooperating FOIA Reviewers    15 March 2011, 5:48 am
• EFF Lets the Sunshine In    16 March 2011, 10:03 am
• The urge to classify    16 March 2011, 5:00 pm

Hacking:

• Sony to Get PS3 Hacker’s PayPal Records    16 March 2011, 3:15 pm
• Hosting Firm Objects to Sony Subpoena in PS3 Hacking Case    17 March 2011, 1:55 pm

Miscellany:

• EFF Urges Judge to Reject Dangerous New Copyright Troll Strategy    16 March 2011, 8:16 am
• Japan Earthquake Shortened Days, Increased Earth’s Wobble    16 March 2011, 10:02 am
• Gender, open technology and culture    16 March 2011, 7:12 pm
• Convert an old card catalog cabinet into an eReader storage and charging station    18 March 2011, 5:04 am
• Tsunami could disrupt supply of silicon wafers    18 March 2011, 8:32 am

Politics:

• Problems with Transparency: Brussels Eyes a Halt to SWIFT Data Agreement    16 March 2011, 8:28 am
• Sen. Blumenthal calls for Google antitrust hearing    18 March 2011, 8:32 am

Privacy:

• Tracking Protection Lists: A privacy enhancing technology that complements Do Not Track    16 March 2011, 5:46 pm

Robotics:

• Robot Nurses Are Less Weird When They Don’t Talk    16 March 2011, 11:05 am
• NASA’s humanoid robot unveiled on space station    17 March 2011, 6:24 am
• Bomb disposal robot getting ready for front-line action    17 March 2011, 10:14 am

Security:

• Former NSA, CIA Chief: Declassify Cyber Vulnerabilities    14 March 2011, 3:48 pm
• ‘We Need to See Ahead’    16 March 2011, 9:38 am
• Get SMART in Cyberspace: Protect Your Data    16 March 2011, 9:38 am
• Warning on GPS Jamming Threats    16 March 2011, 9:39 am
• Hacker Spies Hit Security Firm RSA    17 March 2011, 3:40 pm

Social Media:

• Social media eases quake donations, communication    11 March 2011, 9:22 pm
• Islamism and the Like Button: Can Radicalization Via Facebook Be Stopped?    15 March 2011, 10:26 am
• High price to be paid for controversial social-media mishaps    18 March 2011, 8:32 am

Technology:

• Rod Beckstrom, CEO of ICANN, talks about new domain names    13 March 2011, 10:24 pm
• NASA Considers Shooting Space Junk With Lasers    15 March 2011, 9:32 am
• 115-Year-Old Medical X-Ray Machine Comes Back to Life    16 March 2011, 9:02 am

WikiLeaks:

• Court Rules Against Privacy in Battle Over Twitter Records    11 March 2011, 3:06 pm
• The Bradley Manning Campaign: ‘I Have Watched My Friend Degrade over Time’    14 March 2011, 8:38 am
• Cruel and Unusual Punishment?: Protests Grow of Bradley Manning’s Treatment in Detention    15 March 2011, 9:34 am
• ACLU Protests Manning’s Treatment in Letter to Pentagon    16 March 2011, 3:05 pm
• Was it a CIA honeytrap after all? – Daddys-sverige    17 March 2011, 3:30 am
• Congress Asks to Review DoD and NSA Contracts With HBGary    17 March 2011, 12:10 pm

-D