On this day, June 10th, 2008, the news brings to our attention a vote to OK piracy, microfinance in Bosnia, Italian Hacktivism, a look at Internet fundraising on several fronts, and more.

• How about a look at the status of modern, Italian hacktivism.
• What defines “The Silence Generation?”
• Obama, delegates, and Internet donations.
• Activists seek to counter military recruiters on L.A. campuses.
• The Sweedish Left Party votes to OK piracy.
• Microfinance is blowing up in Bosnia.
• And finally, thanks to Internet fundraising and social networking], a surge is seen in political giving in Northern California.

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On this day, June 6th, 2008, the news brings to our attention libel as a terror tactic, Scientology versus the Internet, the never-ending praise for social networks in the student rally scene, and much, much more.

• Net issues are are hot in the ‘08 elections.
• Scientology v. The Internet (and the “terrorists” who lurk there).
• Speaking of terrorists, have you ever thought of libel as a terror tactic?
• Praise for Internet, Social Networking in student rallies.
• Is the Homegrown Terror Prevention Act a threat to the First Amendment?
• Mention of a flash mob in a reenactment of earth history (what?)
• And finally, Craig Newmark weighs in on pretty much everything.

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On this day, May 20th, 2008, the news brings to our attention defiant Syrians, the ongoing global spread of hacktivism, Matt Flannery on modern microfinance, eRetribution galore, and more.

• Another election 2.0 article, this time from BBC.
• Syrians defiantly ignore web blockade.
• Hacktivism is on the rise in Japan.
• Matt Flannery, CEO of Kiva, discusses pioneering modern microfinance.
• Don’t fraudulently raise money online for earthquake victims! You get arrested!
• And finally, GMail appears to be advertising to me vigilante web-retribution.

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On this day, May 19th, 2008, the news brings to our attention accusation of Free Press lies, eJihad, Internet savvy rape victims and more.

• Gordon Brown: The Internet will shame Burma’s Junta.
• Is the Free Press lying? The Register says so.
• Speaking of The Register, UK Police squash flash mobs.
• Microfinance is apparently at some sort of crossroads.
• Vertical markets are rapidly shifting their fundraising to the internet.
• Virtual Jihad is steadily gaining press attention.
• And finally, [more on] rape victims who use the Internet to look for help.

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On this day, May 9th, 2008, the news brings to our attention the collective prowess of South Korean Internet geeks, the growth of Jihadi web-recruiting, Young Citizens of the Year, MySpace’s attempts to play nicer with the other kids in the social networking sandbox, and more.

• Having trouble with your online recruitment efforts? Maybe you can ask a Mujahideen what works for him.
• The UN suggests that microfinance efforts have yielded successes among poor borrowers in the developing world, though successes with agriculture are questionable.
• The MySpace Data Availability project! Content transferability! The future is now!
• And the Young Citizen of the Year Award goes to… Teenagers already daunted by their everyday goings on focus their efforts on community organization.
• South Korean “Internet geeks” wage cyber-war against “tainted” US beef imports.
• Water-slinging flash mobsters destroy award-winning garden.
• Different web strategies were signs of different results for Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama. Slowed enthusiasm leads to slowed Internet returns for Clinton.
• And finally, mobile technology in the time advanced social networking.

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On this day, May 6th, 2008, the news brings to our attention Rosanna Arquette’s [Internet] viral appeal, how mobile banking will help to transform microfinance, how Serbs are using the Internet and 2008’s place as the year of the “cyber campaign,” and more.

• After a decade and a half of hype about being a “transformative agent for politics,” 2008 is already becoming known as the “Year of the Cyber Campaign.”
• Fox Business examines how mobile banking will transform microfinance and Eric Everson examines the examination [and more].
• Struggling? Facebook it.
• A gander at how folks in Mozambique and Serbia are using the Internet in times of national transition.
• Looking for a way to bring attention to your cause? Call Rosanna Arquette (and Ellen Page and Judd Apatow and maybe Jennifer Aniston), have them appear in a series of videos and encourage supporters to “spread them like wildfire.”
• And finally, in my day, music blogs were where snotty know-it-alls typed about their predicable infatuations with post-punk, no-wave, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, and ironic appreciations for the musical stylings of Frank Stallone — not bases for organizing concerts.

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