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CSR, what is that?

Arms and oil bosses refuse to attend corporate responsibility inquiry Firms including BAE Systems, which have benefited from UK's export credit agency, fail to attend to inquiry into its work The Guardian 17 June 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/17/arms-oil-bosses-corporate-responsibility?INTCMP=SRCH

Technologies of liberation?

Google reports 'alarming' rise in censorship by governments Search engine company has said there has been a troubling increase in requests to remove political content from the internet The Guardian 18 June 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jun/18/google-reports-alarming-rise-censorship?INTCMP=SRCH

Measuring media influence and ownership

Measuring media influence is hard, even before you consider the BBC http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/17/measuring-media-influence-impossible?INTCMP=SRCH The Guardian by Steve Hewlett 17 of June 2012

Getting closer to big bother's dream

This snooping bill is worthy of a surveillance state Theresa May wants to monitor every personal communication we make. It's a step too far in a democratic society The Observer, 17 June 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/17/henry-porter-government-invading-our-privacy?INTCMP=SRCH Other useful/related articles: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/28/the-end-of-online-privacy http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/11/us-government-secretly-reads-your-email http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/15/commotion-wireless-new-america-foundation?intcmp=122 http://uk.mg40.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=a6p96rhvjknhp http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/22/big-data-privacy-information-currency Sources: The Guardian Online and the Observer

Your five minutes of glory! Be prepared

World gets second helpings of girl's school dinner blog as ban is overturned Argyll and Bute council backtracks on decision that caused nine-year-old pupil Martha Payne to cease blogging http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jun/16/martha-payne-never-seconds-blog-climbdown The Guardian 16 of June 2012 Peter Walker

RUR is here!

How bots are taking over the world | Dan O'Hara and Luke Robert Mason http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/30/how-bots-are-taking-over-the-world?INTCMP=SRCH

Is FB a good/sustainable business?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/facebook-general-motors-advertising-ipo-social-media?newsfeed=true Why GM pulling ads from Facebook is good for social media communication | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk