“Amazon.com introduced its widely anticipated digital music store on Tuesday with nearly 2.3 million songs, none of them protected against copying. The store, Amazon MP3, will allow shoppers to buy and download individual songs or entire albums…”
A fascinating looking documentary based on the creation and controversy surrounding the “Super Columbine Massacre RPG!” game which sought to critical engage with the Columbine shootings using a videogame format.
Bill Thompson: “Helping children to understand that they can make someone else suffer by swapping photos or commenting on video clips, and that a “harmless bit of fun” to one person could be agonising humiliation for someone else, is really important.”
” An attack on a Dunedin student that was filmed and posted on YouTube is the latest in an emerging phenomenon of cyber bullying, schools say. ” [Via Jean]
“It’s said the powerful write their own laws but, in New Zealand, now everyone can. Due to a new wiki launched by the New Zealand police, members of the public can now contribute to the drafting of the country’s new policing act.”
Short story: “Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches… What if it controlled your life?” (Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) [Related Interview]
“New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Monday his office has subpoenaed Facebook, accusing the social networking site of not keeping young users safe from sexual predators and not responding to user complaints.”