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Brian Greene, an original radio surfer (Brian gets it….thats all that matters:) ) has started petition to *make* RTE broadcast their TV signals “in the clear” on new digital terristrial television service (commonly known as Free To Air), as the BBC do in England.
Why should we pay our TV licence if we do […]

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I don’t follow alot of blogs, frankly because there are too many of them, but I was very happy to see a new Irish blog released, cearta.ie.
Eoin O’ Dell, a member of Digital Rights Ireland, has started the blog, “cearta” (Irish for “rights”).
Eoin is Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, Trinity College […]

For France’s bloggers, c’est la guerre from Guardian Unlimited: News blog
So, was the rumour right?

“Le Meur - a consummate self-publicist, the author of a book on monetarising blogs, and an employee of the blogging software company Six Apart - is an key part of Sarkozy’s campaign strategy.”
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Guatemala | Impunity rules | Economist.com
A very sad story from The Economist about the increasing number of women being killed in Guatemala, and the overstretching (maybe breaking point) of the government police officials, and the lack of leadership of the conservative democrat, Óscar Berger, who in 2003 was elected President

According to Sobrevivientes, a women’s rights […]

Saddam sentenced to death from Guardian Unlimited: News blog
Saddam Hussein has been sentanced to death by hanging. He wants to face a military firing squad.
I don’t want to sound cynical, but it comes at just the right time for the US midterm elections.
It is good news that he has been found guilty, and that the […]

PI Releases Freedom of Information Around the World 2006 Report

[UPDATE:] A very useful graphic on the breakdown of countries.

Privacy International have released their 2006 world report on Freedom Of Information survey on access to government information laws. The report provides a review of FOI laws practices and policies from 70 countries worldwide.
As to be expected, […]

Today I was sitting in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel here in Guatemala city.
I was sitting within listening distance (unfortunately, I wish I was sitting further away) of two middle-aged America men.
I overheard their conversation regarding the long queue that had to “endure” at the airport.
Fat American man: Yeah. I got off the plane […]