Thursday 12 June 2003

UK study looks at how the technology and society views of online networks are coming together. [VoluntaryNews] 8:19:38 PM

Monitoring of emails, internet and phone use covered by new Data Protection Code. [VoluntaryNews] 8:18:27 PM

Hollywood legend Gregory Peck, star of more than 60 films, including Roman Holiday, dies aged 87. [BBC News] 8:13:19 PM

Becks, Barcelona and the death of English football. By Tom Bower and Julie Burchill. [Guardian Unlimited] 9:23:35 AM

World: US still pursuing war crimes immunity deals for Americans. [Guardian Unlimited] 9:23:17 AM

Some folks familiar with the situation have started to call the Central Valley "the Appalachia of the West." Thanks to Feed The Children, images of hungry children and near-homeless families will appear on television screens, …That's right, children from the land of vast orchards and fields will appear in the same television commercials as kids from Third World countries. It's the kind of publicity that we could do without, … [The Village News] 9:22:14 AM

"The US is turning up the heat on the countries of the Balkans and eastern Europe to secure war crimes immunity deals for Americans and exemptions from the year-old international criminal court. In an exercise in brute diplomacy which is causing more acute friction with the European Union following the rows over Iraq, the US administration is threatening to cut off tens of millions of dollars in aid to the countries of the Balkans unless they reach bilateral agreements with the US on the ICC by the end of this month. [The Village News] 9:20:51 AM

Ministers have promised further action to stem the proliferation of regeneration initiatives and cut back the mountain of red tape attached to them. In a progress report eight months after the publication of its review of area-based initiatives, the government said the number of separate funding streams was being reduced by almost half, while many remaining schemes were ‘less bureaucratic and more joined up’. [new start news] 9:20:02 AM