Teaching About the Web Includes Troublesome Parts – NYTimes.com.
Here’s an interesting article about a curriculum to help teachers educate kids about how to act online. While the professor who created the program refers to these as “ethical” fault lines, it is surprising how many are also legal fault lines. Perhaps by framing them as ethical, he is embracing the fact that none of these issues are entirely clear (or bright line) from a legal standpoint.
Common Sense’s classes, based on research by Howard Gardner, a Harvard psychology and education professor, are grouped into topics he calls “ethical fault linesâ€: identity (how do you present yourself online?); privacy (the world can see everything you write); ownership (plagiarism, reproducing creative work); credibility (legitimate sources of information); and community (interacting with others).
Internet overtakes print in news consumption among Americans.
Between this report and the Post Office’s request to cut home delivery, it would seem as though we are in the midst of a huge shift away from print. I wouldn’t say that it is going away, but this begins to highlight the importance of a number of issues in information freedom (neutrality and access to name two). The architecture of physical information has certain values we may want to ensure are carried into the digital world. If those in power were able to control what appeared on the page at the touch of a button, imagine how different the world might look.
Time to re-read Code and donate to the EFF 
Web Security Trust Models | Freedom to Tinker
Really interesting post on different ways that we might structure trust/certificates online.
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Google shuts down music blogs without warning | Music | guardian.co.uk
This article shows how haphazard the notice/takedown process can be. Often nobody knows who has cleared permission, and bloggers cannot tell which posts are said to be offending.
I guess Google is only interested in hosting your speech if it’s in text?
Variable download pricing correlated with slower music sales.
More evidence of the problems with the music industry’s business model. It’s supply and demand…
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