What do these people smoke? It wasn't the British who invented “taxation without representation” but it did cost them an empire. There are already many business models vying to replace the “music labels,” this nonsense can only speed the day...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/15/0130220/UK-Royalty-Group-Wants-ISPs-To-Pay-For-Pirating-Customers?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

UK Royalty Group Wants ISPs To Pay For Pirating Customers

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 15, @03:14AM

"A group representing British songwriters and composers will on Wednesday call for the introduction of a levy on broadband providers based on the amount of pirated music they allow to pass through their networks. Will Page, chief economist at PRS for Music, will argue at a Westminster conference that a piracy fee would better align the financial interests of internet service providers (ISPs) with rights holders at a time when the two industries are at odds over who should bear the costs of online song swapping."

Another example of the Balkinization of the Internet?

http://tnerd.com/2010/07/13/2-5-million-muslims-threaten-to-quit-facebook-on-21st-of-july/

2.5 Million Muslims Threaten to Quit Facebook on 21st of July!

Go to Facebook Blog and read the comments on any of the recent blog posts. You can’t help but notice a templated comment left by quite a few people who are threatening to boycott Facebook on 21st of July if their demands are not met.

The group in question belongs to the Muslim community that is angered by Facebook’s decision of removing a few hugely popular Islamic pages from the social networking site.

(Related)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20010627-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Facebook refuses to take down tribute page to killer

A new paradigm for popularity based articles?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_new_digg_power_users_and_publishers.php

The New Digg: What It Means For Power Users & Publishers

The latest version of social news site Digg is currently in restricted beta, with an additional 20,000 users added at the beginning of July. The new version adds the ability to "follow" people or publishers via a feature called "My News." This will be the default Digg home page, and it's prompted many to compare the new Digg to Twitter and Facebook. Another big change is that publishers may now automatically submit their content. This changes the game for both power users and publishers, because previously the secret to getting onto the Digg front page was for a power user to submit the story. That's no longer the case.

Bob's blog is the best because: A) I really want to pass this class B) I really want to pass this class C) I really want to pass this class D) I really want to pass this class

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/07/buzz-dash-create-polls-get-instant.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freetech4teachers%2FcGEY+%28Free+Technology+for+Teachers%29

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Buzz Dash - Create Polls, Get Instant Feedback

Buzz Dash is a free polling service that allows anyone to create a poll to use on any blog or website. There are a lot of survey and polling widgets that you can use on your blog (in fact, Blogger has one built-in), but what I like about Buzz Dash is that your poll results instantly update whenever someone votes. The update happens without the need to refresh your page in order to see the new poll results.

“This is slide one. This is slide two.”

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/07/slide-six-easily-add-narration-to-slide.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freetech4teachers%2FcGEY+%28Free+Technology+for+Teachers%29

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Slide Six - Easily Add Narration to Slide Shows

Slide Six is a slide show hosting service that offers you the ability to add your voice narrations without having to create, upload, and sync a separate audio file. Slide Six does this by allowing you to record your narration directly through the Slide Six site. To use the feature just upload your slide show and then record your voice as you go through your slide deck. Slide Six also allows you to upload attachments to complement your presentations. YouTube and Vimeo videos are supported within Slide Six.