Alejandro@Oxford

At the request of the UK government, Facebook took down 30 pages linked to prison inmates who were, according to the authorities, behaving inappropriately on the site, including taunting victims’ family members. It took them 48 hours to do it. In itself this fact is worrisome. At the request of a government Facebook decides, at [...]

Pilar Juárez was the head of the political section in the European Union delegation in Haiti. She was trapped in the collapse of the United Nations building in last week’s earthquake. On Sunday, 17 January, the Commission received news of the confirmation of her death, with High Representative Cathy Ashton releasing a press release, after [...]

President-elect Obama has launched a new page on his www.change.gov site to foster debate about several issues. It has started with health care. As it is reported in The Huffington Post, more noteworthy than the website itself is what the Obama team is signaling with its launch. It isn’t coincidental that Obama is addressing health [...]

The new website for change is open. Obama’s team has opened the page for the presidential transition (www.change.gov). I must say that I was elated when I saw this page. It is so well made, its content is the work of weeks and a wit difficult to surpass. If this is the way Obama’s administration [...]

A short, a bit superficial piece in the NYT on the role of the web in political campaigning. Link

Wikileaks has published on its site ten years (1994-2004) of translated messages and interviews by Osama bin Laden. This is a leaked document from the CIA’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). Among many other things there is a message by bin Laden dated on September 16, 2001 — five days after the twin towers attacks [...]

Rupert Murdoch, the media magnate, appeared yesterday in All Things Digital, in an interview with Walt Mossberg. He is been a long-time supporter of conservative politics, W and Tony Blair through his newspapers and televisions (New York Post and Fox in the US (and now Wall Street Journal, sponsor of All Things Digital)). However, in [...]

Last May 1, I had the opportunity to vote for the first time of my life outside Spain. As a EU citizen I have the right to vote in any EU local election, thus I voted in the Oxford council election, as you can see in the picture. In the UK, or at least in [...]

An example of cooperation between the United Nations and Google in the new Google Earth map of refugees.

Lawrence Lessig recently decided to change his professional career. From a life dedicated to copyright and intellectual property, with many successes, among them the founding of Creative Commons, to the fight against corruption. He is taking a novel approach in this fight. He is not starting from zero, he is using what he’s learned to [...]