Far less serious than allegations of exploitative workforce practice of course - but predictably contentious amongst those who cleave to a citizen’s right to develop new ways to look at porn. The New York Times points out that the verdict may have much to do with a rolling assault on the internet by Italy’s governing classes - Italian president Silvio Berlusconi controls a chunky wedge of its traditional media outlets, and attempts to speed up the internet, for example, have met with consistent administrative resistance. Welcome to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams.

He introduces the labour class interest in all this discussion. What the iron law of wages really means is that workers, as a class, cannot become property owners and thus cannot escape from having to allow property owners to appropriate the product of their labour. In his Essay on Profits , David Ricardo argues: ‘the interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interest of every other class in the community.’[3] Challenges to traditional copyright resulting from peer-to-peer applications, free software, filesharing and appropriation art have caused a wide ranging debate on the future of copyright.

After a moment’s inspiration in yoga class , I realized the metaphor of the practice of yoga fit – both as a thread and a fun visual tool, which of course sent me scurrying to Flickr for creative commons photos. And of course, tested them. As promised earlier , here is my reflection of the keynote I did at the Instructional Technology Council’s annual gathering on February 22nd. The topic was “Online Facilitation: 14 years on.