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On 10 December 1948, the adoption by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights launched a new era. Lebanese scholar Charles Habib Malik described it to the assembled delegates as follows: Every member of the United Nations has solemnly pledged itself to achieve respect for and observance of human rights. But, precisely what these rights are we were never told before, either in the Charter or in any other national instrument. One of the fundamental rights the Universal Declaration described, in Article 19, was the right to freedom of speech: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. More information in more places than ever imagined In all of these places, the possibility of connecting to the world opens up many wonderful opportunities for improving people's lives.
RT @frasereC4: A story of Heathrow misery from @PaulLomax and #c4news on how the ice age effect could last for a long time to come http: ...
Widespread travel chaos caused by some of the severest winter weather for a century left Christmas commuter plans in tatters and swathes of the country paralysed today. Delays and cancellations at a host of UK airports continued to hit thousands of passengers, while plummeting overnight temperatures left almost the entire road network caked in black ice. After shutting yesterday, Heathrow said it would not be letting any flights land on its runway, with only a "handful" of departures taking place, pouring misery on hundreds of stranded people who were forced to spend the night in terminals. Edinburgh Airport closed this morning, before reopening for departing flights only. Gatwick Airport reopened after planes were grounded for large period of yesterday, but widespread disruption was expected with officials advising passengers to check with their airline before travelling.
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Getting Started With Content Management Systems - Smashing Magazine
Advertisement The need to update websites faster to keep content fresh has been ever growing. Ever since the first business owner wanted their Web designer to update their website faster, content management systems have played an important role on the Web. Why does this matter to you? In this article, we will look at how to tell if your organization needs a content management system. A content management system allows you to create, manage, store and edit massive amounts of content without any HTML programming skill. Also consider our previous articles: 10 Things To Consider When Choosing The Perfect CMSGoes over what features to look for when choosing a content management system.10 Harsh Truths About Corporate WebsitesExplains the mistakes we all make when running our websites. 1. If you have never heard the term before, a content management system (CMS) is a Web-based solution that makes it easy for a company to manage website updates internally. Do I Need a Content Management System?
Who pays for copyright enforcement?
From David Hansen, JD, Scholarly Communications intern at Duke University Libraries: Kevin’s last blog post on champerty got me thinking about another ancient legal doctrine, also dimly remembered from law school, which has some application to recent copyright cases: “adverse possession.” Adverse possession is a common law doctrine, dating back over eight hundred years, that was developed to settle disputes over real property when one person had legal title to the land, but another actually possessed the property. The doctrine illustrates a default rule of our legal system—that owners of private property should pay to police and enforce their own rights. Despite this assumption, copyright owners and their policymaker-supporters have recently made overtures toward public enforcement of these private rights. A more subtle brand of cost-shifting occurs, however, when those who assert copyright infringement attempt to shift liability from one private party to another.
A guide for care organisations developing a social media strategy | Be Inspired! Shirley Ayres Consulting
Social networking is a fundamental shift in the way we communicate. Three years ago, the term barely existed. I have received a lot of requests for advice about developing social media strategies in the care sector. I thought it would be helpful to share my thoughts and ideas about the challenges and opportunities presented by social networking. Why councils should embrace social media There can be few social workers unaware of the popularity of social media websites such as Linkedin and Facebook. The public sector needs more ‘Heads of Digital’ with thanks to Michael Taggart Local government blogging – ideas for you with thanks to Ingrid Koehler Decide what it is you want to achieve and explore how social networking will contribute to your communications and stakeholder engagement strategy. 1. 2. Why all local authorities need a social media policy A good social media policy is a good idea with thanks to Dave Briggs 3. Online resources for getting started with social media 4. ShareThis
JStylo-Anonymouth - PSAL
From PSAL The JStylo and Anonymouth integrated open-source project (JSAN) resides on GitHub. What is JSAN? JSAN is a writing style analysis and anonymization framework. It consists of two parts: JStylo - authorship attribution framework Anonymouth - authorship evasion (anonymization) framework JStylo is used as an underlying feature extraction and authorship attribution engine for Anonymouth, which uses the extracted stylometric features and classification results obtained through JStylo and suggests users changes to anonymize their writing style. Details about JSAN: Use Fewer Instances of the Letter "i": Toward Writing Style Anonymization. Tutorial JSAN tutorial: Presented at 28c3 video Download Downloads: If you use JStylo and/or Anonymouth in your research, please cite: Andrew McDonald, Sadia Afroz, Aylin Caliskan, Ariel Stolerman and Rachel Greenstadt. If you use the corpus in your research, please cite: Michael Brennan and Rachel Greenstadt. Developers
Could Twitter be censored?
The recent media obsession over superinjunctions could lead to the unthinkable: censorship of web content here in the UK. The story goes like this. If there is information about you that could reach the public domain and may harm you as a result, British courts may grant you an injunction. This power was designed to protect individuals from harassment, abuse or violence as a result of the information becoming public. A recent development is the superinjunction: a ruling that prevents even the existence of the injunction being made public. There is also such thing as a hyperinjunction. It costs between £50,000 and £100,000 to take out a superinjunction, and so far only men have done so. The upshot is that rich people have a way to protect their wholesome public image through the use of superinjunctions preventing media reporting, even if journalists consider the information to be in the public interest. This throws up a number of questions: This can be dangerous.
Twitter revolts!
Twitter is in revolt after Paul Chambers yesterday lost his appeal against a conviction for sending a menacing electronic communication. Chambers sent the following tweet publicly over the social networking website: "Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!" This flippant and foolish comment has so far cost Chambers his job, a £1,000 fine and given him a criminal record, which he had hoped his appeal would remove. She also claimed that: "Any ordinary person reading this would see it in that way and be alarmed."
