Facebook are due to meet with CEOP again in Washington on 12th April to ‘discuss it further’. I was just having a little think about Facebook’s news yesterday that it won’t be putting a CEOP panic button on all of its pages. Instead Facebook says it will have links to organisations including the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre on its reporting pages. Although I’m a huge supporter of CEOP’s marvellous work, I have to say I can see Facebook’s point. Grooming activity is not the only reason why people may want to report a post – think of bullying, copyright,

Massimo de Angelis report on the Yasuni’s struggle against petroleum extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon region, based and inspired by their “Mother Earth” related deity Pochamama, clearly discusses the same links we discuss in our section on neotraditional economics, and why these linkages between pre-industrial and post-industrial thinking and practices are important, see here for details. Massimo De Angelis on the role of Pochama : “Pochamama is the deity of Andean origin and refers to “mother earth”, not just as geological earth or nature but also as a set of relations, a deity of reproduction, a protective rather than creative deity or perhaps better, a deity for which human creation is just a moment of a reproduction cycle.

There is an interesting discussion going on about how the flow of data moving around the internet gives it a ’shape’ and what that shape means. You can see this discussion written up in an interesting article in the New York Times; ‘ Scientists Strive to Map the Shape-Shifting Net ‘. So what is mean by the ’shape’ of the Internet? We often instinctively see shape in three-dimensional terms - which is not always helpful when thinking of the Internet - which is essentially a ‘network of networks’ running on on-top a physical network