+ Chinese target Google in month long anti-porn crack down (via Globe and Mail)
+ Google Wins Lawsuit on Name, Trademark of Subsidiary in China (via Bloomberg)
+ Google Comes in Fourth on Top 10 List of Spam Enablers (via News.com)
See Also: Spamhaus Top 10
+ Google unveils Picasa for Macs (via AP)
+ Webcast: Watching Google AdWords: The Mysterious Mechanization of Meaning in the Google Brain
Google’s AdWords system serves ads alongside about a quarter of all web traffic. In the process of serving those ads, Google actively processes the user browsing data in order to target its advertising, making AdWords one of the world’s most extensive processors of personal data. Hal Roberts presents on how Google’s use of the AdWords data seeds a network of grey surveillance that may not have direct effects on the individual surveillance subjects but does have important effects on our modes of creating and consuming content online.
Source: Berkman Center at Harvard
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