The Cyberunions Podcast: Episode Eight

• Trying Fedora
• Gnome3/Shell
• Looking for distros that focus on multimedia production – e.g. Ubuntu Studio
• Loss of Facundo Cabral - Argentine folk singer assassinated in Guatemala

• Unite Political School
• Durham Miners’ Gala

4:00 News of the World phone hacking scandal - the crisis that keeps on giving

• British tabloid newspaper is part of the Murdoch empire
• Also owns Faux News
• Sun and NotW had stranglehold on politicians
• When Guardian broke the story of Milly Dowler phone hacking, people used social networks to swamp advertisers, telling them to pull out of NotW – within days the paper was shut down
• Pursued mainly by Tom Watson MP, Nick Davies of the Guardian and Martin Hickman of the Independent

• Tom Watson feels social media was crucial for amplifying the campaign and giving it critical mass
• Tom Watson is a rare politician who understands the internet – check out his digital pledges
• Open Rights Group, EFF and Freepress.

• Buy it at a bookstore or download it from his website
• About the Industrial Workers of the World Wide Web
• Union organising in online multiplayer games
• Bitcoin is covered in Linux Outlaws 215

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