Is internet access a human right? | Adam Wagner | Law. A recent United Nations Human Rights Council report examined the important question of whether internet access is a human right. While the Special Rapporteur's conclusions are nuanced in respect of blocking sites or providing limited access, he is clear that restricting access completely will always be a breach of article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the right to freedom of expression.
But not everyone agrees with the UN's conclusion. Vint Cerf, a so-called "father of the internet" and a vice-president at Google, argued in a New York Times editorial that internet access is not a human right: The best way to characterise human rights is to identify the outcomes that we are trying to ensure.
These include critical freedoms like freedom of speech and freedom of access to information — and those are not necessarily bound to any particular technology at any particular time. There have been some interesting responses to Cerf's op-ed. Daniel Grant: Putting a Price on (Your) Art Takes Some Thought. Deciding what price to put on artwork is one of the most difficult problems for lesser-known or "emerging" artists, since there is no obvious point of reference. (Artists who have had a history of sales, on the other hand, will have a better idea of prices that are more suitable for particular buyers.)
The best way to establish one's market value -- the price a collector is likely to pay -- is by going to art fairs, art galleries and other places where artworks of comparable size, imagery and quality by artists of similar standing in the art world are sold. Those prices should offer some guidelines to what an artist may charge for his or her works. One should never ask prospective buyers what they would pay for art; that is the artist's decision. One may have some flexibility in this, perhaps offering a discount of, say, 10 percent for collectors who like to negotiate, but the pricing decision should never be taken out of the artists' hands. Personal data: A life-management platform? Sedition: Would you spend £500 on pixelated art? Scènes de la culture américaine.
Former MySpace CEO Launches Startup Incubator and Studio. Former MySpace CEO Mike Jones is heading back to the startup world with the launch of a new startup incubator, accelerator and studio. Science, based out of Santa Monica, Calif., is more like Betaworks and Bill Gross's Idealab than it is Y Combinator or Techstars. Science focuses on three key areas: developing and incubating new business ideas, advising early stage startups and helping "Web 1.0" companies reinvent themselves for the present. "We want to be involved in a small set of businesses that we run through the entire gauntlet and get them to success," Jones tells Mashable. Jones says he thinks of Science as a platform for the startups that it creates or works with.
Science will provide the operational assets, distribution channels and basic resources so that the entrepreneurs can focus on "improving area expertise. " What is Science's secret sauce? "There's art in creation and science in scaling," Jones says, explaining the company's name. Media IAS Online Music Forecast, 2011-2015: Social Media, Subscriptions and the Cloud. Already a Gartner client? Sign in to view this research document. Forgot username or password? Not a Gartner Client? Want more research like this?
Contact us online Summary Widespread consumer adoption of connected devices, a host of new subscription services and the indisputable power (but unproven business value) of social networks and social media are combining for a frothy and unpredictable five years for online music. Table of Contents Analysis Introduction Forecast Data Some Thoughts About Cloud Storage Top-Line Assumptions Conclusion Methodology Forecast Components Recommended Reading © 2011 Gartner, Inc. and/or its Affiliates. Free Research Discover what 12,000 CIOs and Senior IT leaders already know. Free Access Research Webinars Why Gartner Gartner delivers the technology-related insight you need to make the right decisions, every day. Find out more. Nbri-infographic.jpg (JPEG Image, 950x4182 pixels) - Scaled (15%) The world of social media in statistics. Getting the music advertising ROI calculation correct... There’s an item missing from the music-marketing dictionary.
What do you call the person that has decided to surrender an email address, follow you on Twitter, or Like you on Facebook? If the word ‘fan’ is short for ‘fanatic’, or as someone said last week: “a fan is someone that buys all your stuff”, then we need an intermediate descriptor that sits between a potential fan that has yet to learn about you, and a fan or fanatic that is already buying your stuff. ‘Pre-fan’ seems like it will work, but why bother? As more and more labels and artists use advertising to bridge the gaps between social media islands, it’s essential to get the advertising return on investment (ROI) calculation correct. If a potential fan is not yet a fan, and if a pre-fan is not really a fan, then you need to apply TWO conversion rates to your ROI calculation.
Click here to follow along using my Google Docs spreadsheet. Note: For every 1,000 impressions, the conversion rate (CR%) to a pre-fan is going to be low. Pour un cyberespace sécurisé. Why Women Make Excellent Entrepreneurs in the Digital Age. Nellie Akalp is CEO of CorpNet.com. Since forming more than 100,000 corporations and LLCs across the U.S, she has built a strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs in starting and protecting their business the right way. To learn more about Nellie and see how she can help your business get off the ground quickly, visit here or "Like" CorpNet.com on Facebook. In 2010, women became the majority of the U.S. workforce for the first time in the country’s history.
Also, 57% of college students are now women. While men continue to dominate the executive ranks and corporate board rooms, women now hold a number of lucrative careers: they make up 54% of accountants, 45% of law associates and approximately 50% of all banking and insurance jobs. These statistics, which appeared in Hanna Rosin's Atlantic article "The End of Men," have prompted considerable attention and debate.
Women are advancing in entrepreneurship as well. The Digital Age and Childcare 1. 2. 3. 4. S Monday Mashup #92. Social media continues to attract big investmentResearch by Booz & Co. and Buddy Media has revealed that businesses are set to spend a higher percentage of total digital marketing spend on social over the next three years. The survey also revealed that 65% of the managers already have plans in place to improve social media policies – 63% said these were to better integrate social into overall marketing strategies, and 59% plan to pay attention to social media monitoring and rapid response capabilities.
Yet only 15% already have plans for social revenue-generating platforms. Mobile social media audience grows A comScore study has found that 72.2 million US residents access social networking sites and blog on their mobiles – that’s 37% more than last year, and means that nearly one third of all US mobile users are going mobile with social. 69.5% of mobile social networkers posted status updates while on their mobile device, with 52.9% reading posts from organisations or brands. Okie Dokie Stomp. The economics of Groupon: The dismal scoop on Groupon. Steve Jobs's legacy: With Apple, the medium made the message. Ed Nash: How Steve Jobs Saved the Music Industry.