Happy Birthday Human Rights!
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!
The Future of Reading
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!
irrepressible.info
After removing the ugly centrino / winodows vista / energy star stickers from my laptop, I put a irrepressible.info sticker on the back of the lit. Irrepressible.info is a Amnesty International campaign, which fights against censorship in internet, especially in blogs, chats and forums. So help to defend the Freedom Of Speech and fight against censorship!
To Do:
- sign the pledge on irrepressible.org (even if it’s a little bit old)
- add censored content to your blog/website
- become member of Amnesty International
- set up a TOR server
- … and so on!
Use your mind! Get active!
