Scientists studying a crevasse in the Ethiopian desert say we may be witnessing the birth of a future ocean. In 2005, a 35-mile-long rift broke open as two parts of the African continent separated….
World leaders are due to join thousands of Berliners marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In this issue of Media Literacy Digest, open education advocate George Siemens, takes you to news and stories on emergent media, technology and learning, helping you make good sense of the many…
Italian police arrest influential mafia boss Luigi Esposito - the latest in a string of Camorra bosses held recently.
Hugh Pickens writes “The Telegraph reports that Professor Carol Tilley, a professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois, says that comics are just as sophisticated as…
Yesterday when I went into the bathroom stall, written on the wall beside me was,”If you watch jaws backwards its about a huge shark that throws up so many people that they need to open a beach.” I…
Twenty-six year-old gamer Guido Núñez-Mujica lives in Venezula, where the government has passed a new law that in effect criminalizes video games.
“These games are a cherished part of my…
Rock de Lux, una de las pocas revistas españolas especializadas en música moderna que resiste en nuestros quioscos (junto a Ruta 66), cumple 25 años y, para celebrarlo, ha publicado en su…
This March, IFPI – backed by several Hollywood movie companies – gave Telenor, Norway’s largest ISP, a warning: block your users from accessing The Pirate Bay within 14 days or we will take…
Danhoff, Leslie “All Rights Reserved” to “No Rights Reserved”: An Overview of Copyright and Other Licenses., 2009 [Preprint]
The site Bluebeat.com has a long, colorful and frankly bizarre legal history. Two and a half years ago, the site, which deals in digital audio racks, sued Apple, Microsoft, RealNetworks and Adobe….
A fun visualization by Focus magazine about …“the explosion of social networking sites over the past decade has facilitated a transformation in the way we communicate with each other….
CNETNate writes “You’ll laugh, but mostly you’ll cry. Some of the questions Google gets asked to deliver results for is beyond worrying. ‘Can you put peroxide in your ear?’, ‘Why would a pregnancy…
