Twitter April/May 2010

I post links to interesting articles, documents and the like on my Twitter feed, @macsithigh. It’s also a bit erratic (i.e. I don’t post every day or cover relevant topics with any consistency), but here are some selected links from April/May 2010:

• Competition Commission’s report on ITV advertising http://is.gd/ccV7Q
• What are Jeremy Hunt’s priorities as the new culture secretary? http://bit.ly/dy65WI
• Constructing Commons: important new article and responses from 3 US scholars now available http://is.gd/c8Cz9
• Here comes the inevitable case against Sony for messing with PS3s to prevent bad wicked Linux http://is.gd/bOK1m
• More AdWords cases – US 4th circuit, Rosetta Stone case via @ipkat http://is.gd/bOJFy
• Congrats to UEA colleague Brett Mills on work re ethics of animal documentaries e.g. http://is.gd/bOJe6 from @uea_news;  journal http://is.gd/bOJhz
• RT @tjmcintyre Council proposals for EU Cybercrime investigation unit and revocation of domain names: http://bit.ly/bC8LyA
• Second thoughtful-nostalgia link: newspapers and early radio http://is.gd/bGpmC
• CFP on ‘social media, dissent & political action’ from The Communication Review,’Twitter Revolutions?’ Deadline 1/June/10 http://is.gd/bzHwC
• RT @NickAnstead Uni. of Chicago study suggests that internet is not balkanised after all: http://bit.ly/bQak3O
• Brave response of Can. culture minister to art panic: “From what I know & have seen,I have no interest in seeing this exhibition personally” http://is.gd/bzHlk
• Fun times ahead – SCOTUS to have a shot at figuring out the first sale doctine, an appeal from 2008 Omega v Costco http://is.gd/bzHfJ
• Interesting article on ‘video pollution’ in the new First Monday: http://is.gd/bu9dY
• Best description of the Twitter advertising plan I’ve seen yet – worth reading. From @EpicenterBlog http://is.gd/bs9eD
• Another top-class graphic from @infobeautiful – this one on how much music artists earn online http://is.gd/br0kT
• Spmething interesting happening with this freelance contract – indemnities and the like – will watch it http://is.gd/bqYFA
• A particularly good episode of #radio4 Click On today (online soon at http://is.gd/bpKVV) – open data, Aus filter & more
• Apparently the ‘fourth screen’ is where it’s at: screens on the treadmill and in the lift. Hmm. http://is.gd/bpoV1
• Radio DJ follows traffic report re threat to jump from bridge w/ bouncycastle jokes & Van Halen ‘Jump’.Ofcom not amused.
• RT @ChrisTMarsden From Brussels with hate, compulsory web filters #debill #deact http://bit.ly/cTNtxY
• Carys Craig on ‘The Canadian Public Domain’: http://is.gd/bohtj
• Shetland Times lives on! Japanese newspaper requires advance application for any links to it. No right-click too. Hmm. http://is.gd/bohn2
• Arts and politics: BBC interviews w/ Bradshaw, Vaizey & Foster on Radio 3 (!) tomorrow afternoon. Info & send your Qs at http://is.gd/bm1SX