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Internet defenders, assemble!

Months after the success of the virtual protests against the SOPA online piracy bill, the nonprofit group Fight for the Future is forming the Internet Defense League -- an organization of people who support Internet freedom and have pledged to fight for it using whatever powers they have.

"The Internet Blackout was just the beginning," the league founders write on a Web page announcing the project. "Together, our websites and personal networks can mobilize the planet to defend the Internet from bad laws and monopolies. Are you in?"

Joining up is as simple as entering the URL of your website (or blog, YouTube channel, Twitter stream or Tumblr account) as well as an email address on the Internet Defense League's website.

Then in a few weeks you'll get further instructions on how to place a piece of code on your website that will allow the league to alert you when you need to jump into action.

That action might be allowing the league to take over your entire site or placing a message in a sidebar. You may be asked to show your readers a streaming video or urge them to contact a congressional representative.

For now, the sign that you are needed will look like the bat signal the people of Gotham used to summon Batman, but with a cute cat face. They call it the "cat signal."

Tiffiniy Cheng, co-founder of Fight for the Future who is spearheading the project, said WordPress, Reddit and the Cheeseburger network have already signed up to be part of the league and that Wikipedia -- the largest website to take part in the anti-SOPA protest -- is also considering membership.

"With the current sites signed up we have a combined reach of tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people," Cheng said. "We are taking the network and tactics of the SOPA fight that we created and turning it into a permanent force."

As for why the signal for Internet action is a cat, Cheng said it has to do with Ethan Zuckerman's cute cat theory of digital activism, which posits that the same tools that help people share cute cat photos can also be used for online activism.

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24-05-2012 05:21 Dreadsquad & Lady Chann - "Money ah dem god" taken from the album "The Riddim Machine" (Superfly Studio 2012) Directed by: Marek Bogda?ski Filmed by: Adam Roso?owski Animated by: Marek Bogda?ski, Kasia Wilk Edited by: Adam Roso?owski, Marek Bogda?ski Graphics by: Merek Bogda?ski, Ewelina Pokora more info about the album: Artist: Dreadsquad Title: The Riddim Machine Format: CD / 12" / Digital download Genre: Reggae / Digital / Dancehall / Dubstep / Ska / Rocksteady Label: Superfly Studio Cat. No.: SF012 Release Date: 10.03.2012 Illustrations: Kasia Wilk / Artwork: Superfly Design Dreadsquad's output has been prolific but always full of quality. To date, they have released four mixtapes and two albums, in 2005 and 2009, and nine singles between 2009 and 2012, covering an array of genres through both the original tracks and the remixes, cooperating with Reggae and Hip Hop artists from all over the World. As well as performing hundreds of gigs in Poland, they have also played all around Europe and North America. Early 2012 kicks off with yet a new release, delivering nothing but top quality with 16 tunes as varied as they come! Indeed, The Riddim Machine is as colorful as you may expect it from the lineup of the featured artistes: True blue Jamaicans such as the "Deejay Daddy" U Brown, Ward 21, Perfect Giddimani and Scarra Mucci are as well representing as Germany's Ska and Dancehall veteran Dr. Ring ...

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24-05-2012 14:35 BEATPORT: // ITUNES: A-Trak is a DJ hero, scratching his way through the world's biggest festivals, sold out club shows, and even stadiums both solo and as half of disco house titans Duck Sauce. Along with his acclaimed remixes and original productions, he's also co-founder of Fool's Gold, the trendsetting independent record label. Dillon Francis is one of dance music's boldest young guns, dropping the bass on high-profile remixes for the likes of Calvin Harris and Flux Pavillion, not to mention his own signature tracks on Mad Decent and OWSLA. These two club kings have teamed up for the first time on "Money Makin," an irresistible summer jam out May 22nd via Fool's Gold. Get the pool party started...

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By Cain Burdeau, The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS - The Times-Picayune, one of the nation's oldest newspapers, will no longer offer print editions seven days a week and instead plans to offer three printed issues a week starting in the fall. The change means New Orleans would become the largest metro area in the nation without a daily newspaper in the digital age.

The changes announced Thursday were combined with similar moves at three major Alabama daily newspapers also owned by the Newhouse family group's Advance Publications. The Birmingham News, the Press-Register in Mobile and The Huntsville Times will switch to publishing three days a week as part of a new focus on online news. At all four papers, there will be unspecified staff cuts. All four papers will continue to publish continuously on their websites, and online access will remain free.

Newspapers have struggled in recent years as consumers increasingly get their news online. Print advertising declined as the economy went into recession, and newspapers have yet to learn how to make online advertising as profitable as its printed counterpart.

"For us, this isn't about print versus digital, this is about creating a very successful multi-platform media company that addresses the ever-changing needs of our readers, our online users and our advertisers," said Advance Publications' president of local digital strategy, Randy Siegel, in an interview with The Associated Press. "This change is not easy, but it's essential for us to remain relevant."

Siegel didn't say how much money the reduced print runs in Louisiana and Alabama would save, nor how many staff members would be laid off or hired in the new online units.

"To get good quality information is not cheap," said Jennifer Greer, chair of the journalism department at the University of Alabama. "What you are seeing is people trying to figure out a business model that works in a digital age."

The decision was met with sadness by some residents in New Orleans, where The Times-Picayune won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Staffers continued reporting despite being forced out of the newspaper's offices amid widespread flooding and power outages.

The storm drove away thousands of residents, some of whom never came back. The city and its newspaper struggled to recover in the years since.

The paper was a lifeline for the Southern, working-class city, providing government announcements, obituaries, Carnival and scoops on local corruption, said Cheron Brylski, a 53-year-old New Orleans-based political consultant. Not having the paper every day is like losing a sports team, she said.

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