International Law

These are some of the things I've been tweeting about over the past few days:

• the economist on "privacy in france: tweets and sours" http://j.mp/8ZSj97
• posterous gets better and better http://bit.ly/aFMv75
• controversial ... a group of scholars convened in new york this week to launch the foundation for male studies http://bit.ly/cKTlr7
• RT @SBSNews: One in 10 Australian teenagers experience cyberbullying http://bit.ly/djsirk ... as do and 1 in 2 social media experts
• slate's @emilybazelon and dahlia lithwick on "who should replace justice john paul stevens?" http://bit.ly/bUBUMg
• dahlia lithwick pays tribute to justice stevens ... "justice john paul stevens is the model for why empathy matters" http://bit.ly/a2Swsr
• just discovered @aimeemann on twitter ... "ice-t teaches aimee mann a lesson in politeness" http://bit.ly/blFEJB
• a different take on the tweetie acquisition by twitter ... "why twitter buying tweetie is great news" http://bit.ly/aDuNBA
• a great post at gawker tv ... "south park explains everything that is annoying about facebook" http://j.mp/cIxH9E
• wow this is extraordinary ... @SilkCharm goes on the attack against @mumbrella, accusing him of cyberbullying http://j.mp/94RC7n
• it's not a good day to be a twitter developer ... "evan williams?s message to twitter developers" http://j.mp/dgp6c1
• @loic from @seesmic says "of course we're hole fillers and why no-one should depend on only one platform" http://j.mp/dr9732
• another good post on techdirt ... "why 'copyright criminals' filmmakers won't get sued? because they'd win" http://bit.ly/bB4jOz
• an excellent post on "cyber-spin: how the internet gets framed as dangerous" http://j.mp/bMh3Dw
• happy birthday copyright! ... copyright turns 300 today http://j.mp/dhgwme
• about time ... "burning mean rethinks its legal ownership of your photos" http://bit.ly/aewrnH
• let's play cyberwar bingo! http://bit.ly/9bXTbE
• i like this idea ... "no time for grading? outsource it!" http://bit.ly/9RyDAh /cc @peterwickins @CathBx @duffyjm @NigelStobbs @judithmcn
• the wall street journal law blog "on justice stevens?s retirement: outtakes from around the web" http://bit.ly/dqZVO5
• RT @TweetStats: RT @motownmutt: according to tweetstats, tweetie is 4.4% among twitter apps. Be interesting to see how that number changes in a few months
• kim weatherall analyses the potential impact of the proposed acta (january 2010 leaked text) on australian law http://j.mp/dpMT37
• cnn sees the downside of citizen journalism ... "cnn sues citizen 'ireporter' for saying he works for cnn" http://j.mp/bqeNrE
• anita ramasastry in a piece for findaw's writ looks at the sex.com auction and asks, "what's a domain name worth?" http://bit.ly/cBywe7
• RT @OzMark17: Study shows Internet Use is Associated With Both Increases and Decreases in Depression http://bit.ly/d6Hjz4 (via @EWDnet @mpesce)
• surprise! ... "internet polls found to be unrepresentative" http://nyti.ms/b0Z0lX
• this is unexpected ... "george bush throws a cyber-dissidence conference" http://bit.ly/drhaPQ
• the fix asks "how will john paul stevens retirement affect the midterms?" http://bit.ly/9HWULH
• this could be interesting ... "hbo snags doc from 'entourage's' grenier" http://bit.ly/chbzR9
• a "smaller, cheaper ipad in the works?" ... isn't that an ipod touch? http://bit.ly/c0AV4h
• "i love you phillip morris" has been delayed again ... "carrey, mcgregor's gay comedy delayed indefinitely" http://bit.ly/axedDK
• us conservatives are really paranoid, aren't they? ... "will 'wall street 2' promote an obama-like 'socialist agenda'? http://bit.ly/aKzoZg
• oprah in primetime ... "on her new channel, a show starring winfry" http://nyti.ms/arKVNt
• it's a pity @jaketapper is not the permanent host of "this week" ... "abc''s 'this week' to get checked by politifact" http://nyti.ms/d2QyJA
• amnesia blog has some good alternatives to the ipad ... "should i buy an ipad?" http://bit.ly/bEjF9F
• RT @NickHodge: If you are a Vegan and you eat a Carnivorous Plant, are you still a Vegan?
• troubling but not unexpected news ... "junta to strangle fiji press freedom" http://bit.ly/dsu840
• jeff jarvis and his "bill of rights in cyberspace, amended" http://bit.ly/byJ854
• i'm not sure i agree, but antony green argues that the "political logic points to double dissolution" http://j.mp/coBHI3
• @AndrewBartlett also looks at the extraordinary situation in tasmania - "it?s official: tasmania really is different!" http://bit.ly/bSQOz3
• @AndrewBartlett identifies "a few bits of history as sa upper house results declared" http://bit.ly/9HFoWs
• the excellent copyrights & campaigns blog says "chuck devore moves for summary judgment in don henley copyright suit" http://bit.ly/cuotrU
• politico on the scotus name game begins http://bit.ly/9t3vb8
• slate's christopher beam asks, "what kind of supreme court confirmation hearing does barack obama want?" http://bit.ly/9N1jYW
• this is huge twitter news! ... "twitter acquires tweetie" http://bit.ly/aRi5w7 ... i wonder what this means for @seesmic @tweetdeck @mixero?
• a good angle on the wikileaks story ... "but how could wikileaks break a story without traditional newspaper backing?" http://bit.ly/9RVFOJ
• My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: The Magnetic Fields (120), Angus & Julia Stone (39) and Augie March (29) http://bit.ly/dbQF7L
• RT @CopyrightLaw: Boing Boing: "How ACTA will change the world's internet laws" http://bit.ly/bZjDjA
• RT @WSJ: Retirement letter from Justice Stevens to President Obama: http://twitpic.com/1eap0i
• this is big news! ... "justice john paul stevens retires from us supreme court" http://j.mp/bp4RMh
• politico looks at some of the young new american political pundits and asks, "prodigies or pipsqueaks?" http://bit.ly/d8gLl7
• RT @jacketpotato: Wow, this is depressing http://nymag.com/news/politics/65239/ Why the US Senate doesn't work anymore.
• another interesting post at techdirt ... "newspapers pushing for hot news doctrine may find it come back to bite them" http://bit.ly/9NyKQM
• @HowardKurtz on murdoch's mantra ... "if you watch fox news you get an earful about how biased the rest of the media are" http://j.mp/aTXMxU
• yay! glee returns to channel ten on thursday april 29 http://bit.ly/cr2zu7 #glee
• a good editorial in the new york times ... "dial-up law in a broadband world" http://j.mp/buWTrE
• james sturm in slate ... "i'm quitting the internet. will i be liberated or left behind?" http://j.mp/cXfl1q
• very interesting ... "judge who was revealed as anonymous commenter sues newspaper for $50 million" http://bit.ly/bKoFFp
• techdirt on uk's digital economy bill ... "proposed by the unelected, debated by the ignorant, voted on by the absent" http://bit.ly/bm4cJJ
• gmail sneak peek and nested labels looks pretty good http://bit.ly/cmFKqC ... gmail just keeps getting better and better
• the new york times on "eliot spitzer?s long road to redemption" http://j.mp/bnWIHZ
• glenn beck: "i could give a flying crap about the political process ... we're an entertainment company" http://j.mp/8XmPFi
• amazingly foxnews only accounts for $2 million of this ... "glenn beck, the $32 million man" http://j.mp/bbz5wZ
• RT @miakgarlick: OECD releases report 'The Economic & Social Role of Internet Intermediaries' http://bit.ly/az6J3w
• RT @scrivenersfancy: Tony Abbott has made this gallery of 'Unnecessary Censorship': http://tinyurl.com/y8o3fnd
• RT @efa_oz: Simon Hackett: Conroy?s wrong on net filtering http://bit.ly/c56pkT #openinternet #nocleanfeed
• reading "why hp's superior slate will fail" http://regator.com/?u=3xbkfy
• this is interesting ... "the most influential muslim at the white house?" http://j.mp/cxZX4A
• peter osnos says bill gates, steve jobs, jeff bezos, sergey brin and larry page are in the ranks of edison and ford http://j.mp/9Rj7jT
• prepare for another facebook privacy war http://j.mp/cTLyh2
• slate asks "isn't it illegal for apple to restrict the ipad's software library?" http://j.mp/947mZC
• justice kirby spoke at qut today about gay marriage http://j.mp/aAFLpy
• it's a fine line ... "is it aggregation or stealing?" http://j.mp/cKrSwk
• some compelling reasons not to buy an ipad http://j.mp/d0ogX1 (but i still think i'll get one)
• RT @thetowncrier: So bored with @thepunchcomau deciding anti-net censorship is now a popular line so it will run the defence. Conroy and @Colgo - what a team.
• controversial ... christopher cox argues that "it's ok for vegans to eat oysters" http://j.mp/9Tv8zt
• huey in porn scandal ... "huey?s kitchen cooks up spicy site" http://j.mp/bzcyAM
• RT @efa_oz: Without civil liberties, government is just a criminal racket http://bit.ly/aGqT0o #openinternet #nocleanfeed

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