Consultation on Irish broadcasting law
Steer your computer to econsultation.ie for a new development in Ireland; online consultation (mandated by motion in both houses of parliament) on the drafting of a new Broadcasting Act. (It’s not online-only…alternatives are here).
This bill hasn’t been introduced in either house of parliament - so it’s unusual enough that the draft is publicly available. [...]
Russian cyberculture, cyberthis, cyberthat
A new book available for download (under a Creative Commons licence). Here is the bibilographic information. I’ve just downloaded a couple of chapters relevant my current and forthcoming research, but would be interested in other responses:
Henrike Schmidt, Katy Teubener, Natalja Konradova (eds)
Control + Shift. Public and Private Usages of the Russian Internet
Norderstedt: Books [...]
Wifi … powered up
The Toronto Star reports on the (overdue) launch of an interesting city-wide (well, a-few-blocks-wide for now) municipal WiFi network in Toronto. Toronto Hydro (note to non-Canadians: the supply of electricity is frequently referred to informally as ‘hydro’ in Canada, due to the history of hydroelectric power plants…) is responsible for this - and it’s [...]