OneWebDay

Mar 27: Comcast and BitTorrent today issued a joint press-release where they announced a collaborative effort to move beyond the current ‘reset spoofing‘ hooha. While Comcast will migrate by year-end 2008 to a capacity management technique that is “protocol agnostic”, BitTorrent agreed to develop fresh “optimizations” that will promoted as application standards.

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26 March 2008: Today is the world’s first Document Freedom Day. The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation. Roughly 200 teams from more than 60 countries worldwide are organising local activities to raise awareness for Document Freedom and Open Standards. The DFD was initiated and is supported by a group of organisations and companies, including, but not limited to the Free Software Foundation Europe, ODF Alliance, OpenForum Europe, IBM, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Read more…

COMPUTERS, FREEDOM, AND PRIVACY: TECHNOLOGY POLICY ‘08

It’s time to get ready for the 18th annual CFP conference – a key meeting.

Dates: May 20-23, 2008

Location: Omni Hotel, New Haven, CT (”the hub”) (”the Paris of the 2000s”) (seriously, the Omni is a nice hotel, you’ll be fine)

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We see that hundreds of people have registered to blog on OneWebDay.org – but for whatever reason they’re not doing it.

We’re all here taking risks – why not write a blog post? We’d love to read what you have to say.

If you have questions about how to post, just send us email at questions@onewebday.org.

Looking forward to your posts!

OneWebDay is a local event – whatever political/outreach/connectivity goals you have, you should use it to serve those goals.

A major theme for OneWebDay 2008 could be a focus on how the web/Internet have furthered democracy around the world. Like democracy itself, online life is inherently decentralized. We’ve seen entire political movements spring up online – we’ve certainly seen political candidates use the web to cut down the distance between themselves and their constituents – and we’re just beginning.

So – consider democracy as a news-hook and activity-generator for OneWebDay 2008.

Notice that we have our own social network site – you can use it to organize your local events on Sept. 22. We hope you’ll use it often. (We also have a Facebook cause.) We’re trying to provide as many tools as we can for OneWebDay use.

A new favorite (very OneWebDay) thing, coming from Tim Karr’s blog at Huffington Post: Rock the Net.

An article in today’s New York Times details how, despite their government’s best efforts, Cubans are accessing the Internet in increasing numbers. Read more…