JAclar’s Weblog

Exactly today 59 years ago the Universal Declaration of Human Rights got adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. amnesty international germany is starting it’s “Gold For Human Rights” campaign today and amnesty.org is also themed golden. The campaign is about the human rights violations in china and amnesty is trying to use the publicity of the Olympic Games in Bejing 2008 to draw more attention on this really important Topic.

I actually quite in a hurry so I have to stop here with this short teaser and hope to find more time later on to write more about it!

I just found this awesome Blog entry about the future of reading. It blends several statements about the new Amazon Kindle device, Open source and the usage of books and knowledge. And if you read this you can get actually really concerned about the future of knowledge and how we are going to have access to it. We have to assure that everybody has access to all the knowledge available no matter how much money she/he has,  where this person is from and why and how she/he is going to use it. And not protecting against so called “pirates” which are “stealing” intellectual property, which should be anyway public available. So please support OpenSource and OpenAccess wherever you can!