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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Wikipedia founder gives up control of site over Fox News kiddie-porn scandal — Fox News reports that Jimmy Wales, co-founder and chairman of the foundation that runs do-it-yourself encyclopedia Wikipedia, has given up his administrative privileges on the site in response to a Wikipedia community backlash …
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Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Shakeup at Wikipedia in Wake of Porn Purge — A shakeup is underway at the top levels of Wikipedia, FoxNews.com has learned, as administrators try to deal with the growing controversy surrounding pornographic images that appear on the online encyclopedia and its associated websites.
danah boyd / apophenia:
Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated — From day one, Mark Zuckerberg wanted Facebook to become a social utility. He succeeded. Facebook is now a utility for many. The problem with utilities is that they get regulated. — Yesterday, I ranted about Facebook and “radical transparency.”
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Adam Thierer / Technology Liberation Front:
Facebook Isn't a “Utility” & You Certainly Shouldn't Want it to Be Regulated As Such — I have a lot of respect for danah boyd and have had the pleasure to interact with her when we both served on the Harvard online child safety task force, and at other times. She's a very gifted social media researcher.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Steve Jobs Offers World ‘Freedom From Porn’ — I didn't plan to pick a fight with Steve Jobs last night. It just sort of happened: An iPad advertisement ticked me off; I sent the Apple CEO an angry email; he told me about “freedom from porn.” — The electronic debate proceeded from there.
Thom Holwerda / OSNews:
Wild Fox: Firefox Fork with H.264 Support — Mozilla, sticking to its ideals of the open web, decided long ago that support for the patent-encumbered H264 codec would not be included in any of its products. Not only is H264 wholly incompatible with the open web and Free software, it is also incredibly expensive.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
HP bought Palm after a five-company bidding war — Palm and HP seem like the happiest of corporate couples right now, but theirs was a heated courtship: according to Palm's latest statement to shareholders, a total of 16 companies were contacted about a deal, and HP was the winner …
Michael Calore / Webmonkey:
New ‘OpenID Connect’ Proposal Could Solve Many of the Social Web's Woes — David Recordon, one of the key architects of OpenID and other identity technologies that have emerged over the past five years, has envisioned a new direction for OpenID. — His proposal, which was drafted with input …
Robert McMillan / PC World:
Car Hackers Can Kill Brakes, Engine, and More — University researchers have taken a close look at the computer systems used to run today's cars and discovered new ways to hack into them, sometimes with frightening results. — In a paper set to be presented at a security conference in Oakland …
Fred / A VC:
Draw Your Ideas — I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. It's a great talk. I particularly like his first point, which is that you should draw out your ideas before you start coding them. — The video is only 16 minutes long and it is well worth the time.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Time Warner Cable tries to put brakes on massive piracy case — Time Warner Cable has no intention of complying with thousands of requests asking it to identify copyright infringers. — Remember the US Copyright Group? They're the DC legal outfit that is turning P2P copyright infringement into cash …
