Author Archive
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
I wanted to give a big welcome to David Karpf; we are very honored to have him here on our blog and we look forward to see him post some of the many brilliant little nuggets that I have come to expect to hear from him over our coffee talks ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Bad news, as the Senate overwhelmingly voted to legalize President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program and also decided not to amend a bill that would prevent telecom companies from getting immunity for giving the government access to phone records of millions of people.A quote from an article from Wired that talks ...
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
elucidating, and brilliant as always, Lessig is giving us a preview of his work on corruption. Some of his arguments relate strongly to those made by Etzioni earlier, who helped us understand that oftentimes it is dollar for dollar more efficient or profitable to invest money in lobbying than actual ...
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Bill has an excellent post on the RIAA peer-to-peer trial, so I am only going to add the following comparison as food for thought. The U.S. being the land of the freedom, and China being the authoritarian country that censors its media - how come the case of the Minnesota ...
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Discussions about Net Neutrality are oftentimes hard to follow, mostly because it is not always clear what exactly the concept 'Net Neutrality' means. That's why it's helpful to have a concrete example, and as such is offered by a situation across the pond: recently British newspapers have reported that several ...
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Tim O'Reilly proposes a Bloggers Code of Conduct
The code of conduct comes in the wake of death threats sent to Kate Sierra, who as a result cancelled a public appearance and suspended her blog. Sending death threats to someone is obviously unacceptable behavior and measures should be taken against it. ...
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Thinner is a German electronic music label that has been distributing MP3 files since 2001, with all tracks licensed under Creative Commons (Attrib-NoDerivs-NonCommercial).
It's nice to find labels like these that seek to distribute good music around the world. More labels that distribute music online can be found on their links ...
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Apparently a Japanese court ruled in July 2006 that all Japanese films produced before 1953 are part of the Public Domain. That includes one of the most brilliant movies in film history: Rashomon by Kurosawa. if you haven't seen it yet, you have no excuse but to check it out ...
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
Rebecca MacKinnon reports about possible U.S. Military censorship, and warns us for the slippery slope we have started.
A couple of thousand years ago, the Chinese built the Great Wall to keep the hordes of barbarians out. Fast forward to now: the Chinese have been building the Great Firewall to keep ...
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
This blog is not all about bad news! Judge Anna Diggs Taylor from Detroit is the first judge to rule about the legality of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program - it was justified as necessary for battling terrorism but is now found to violate the rights to free ...
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