Casey Neistat made this movie for the New York Times http://nyti.ms/zCjMEA as part of their OpDoc series.

A brief overview of recent changes to the Google Privacy Policy

Introduction to the concepts behind The Information Diet, a new book by Clay Johnson. The Information Diet makes the case that it’s time we started being as selective with the information we consume as we are the food that we eat, then describes what a healthy diet and healthy habits look like.

Read more on Beth Kanter’s blog.

SOPA and PIPA are two examples of recent legislation that is lethal to the internet as we know it. The internet rose up and is on its way to successfully fighting them off, but we need to stay vigilant.

The only way to prevent legislation like this from being passed in the future is to call your Congressmen and tell them. Make it clear that you don’t support SOPA, you don’t support PIPA, and that you won’t support future legislation that damages the stability of the internet.

For more information, visit:

• http://www.SeattleAgainstSOPA.com
• http://bit.ly/lifeaftersopa
• http://stopcensorship.org/

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Google has launched a consumer education campaign called Good to Know, which is designed to teach new users of high tech about safety, security and data management online. It’s a walk-through with four sections: Stay safe online, Your data on the web, Your data on Google and Manage your data.

These resources are available at google.com/goodtoknow

For Los Angeles teen Perla Gutierrez, a trip with her classmates to visit Harvard was not just her first time visiting the East Coast. It was her first time in an airplane.

She and three classmates from Boyle Heights’ Roosevelt High School head there, in a video series put together by Politik Media, to explore the campus and consider a path most of her peers don’t take after high school: pursuing a college degree at an Ivy League university. As their teacher says in the videos, many high school graduates from the neighborhood don’t go on to college, and even Roosevelt students with strong academics tend to head straight to a community college or a state university nearby to stay close to home.

Read more and watch more videos on Colorlines.

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Longtime LA Weekly journalist Sam Slovick partnered with TakePart and Slake to put out a five-part documentary series on OccupyLA called Scenes from the New Revolution. Part 1 is posted above.

Slovick covered the LA City Hall occupation for the two months before it was famously squashed by the LAPD last month. More info on Slovick’s project here.