shouting loudly

It’s 100% legal for me to post this picture:

It’s an official US government document, so copyright does not apply–at least not in the US. (See 17 USC § 105.) It’s galling, then, that the official White House Flickr account has been adding language incorrectly claiming copyright-like restrictions on pictures.
The language reads:
This official White House photograph [...]

[This is a draft blog post as submitted to SaveTheInternet.]
Academic associations tend to be politically conservative.
I don’t mean they revere Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman, though plenty of scholars do. Rather, each group–representing a field’s professors and graduate students–tends to evade controversy, rarely taking a public stance on an issue that might divide the membership.
Thus, [...]

I was excited when Carol Pardun, President of the Association for Education and Journalism and Mass Communication, told me that the group would be issuing a statement supporting network neutrality. I was ecstatic when she asked for my input on the statement.
Now, the statement is out, and I’m listed as a contact. Later today, thanks [...]

Just a quick, 24-hours-overdue thanks to the folks at the Newsweek Dev Team for hosting me last night at their third News/Geek event.
I had a rollicking good time, the questions were awesome, and the post-talk celebration was even better. If you want the Powerpoint, it’s here in all its 12.2 MB glory.
Further discussion welcome.

It is with a joyous heart that I welcome our latest co-conspirator contributor, Paul Falzone.
Like the rest of us, he has a big “Penn” stamp on his arse, having earned his PhD from Annenberg in 2008. He started in 2003 (same year as Jason and me), and it quickly became apparent that he was a [...]

I’m excited by Barnes & Noble’s Nook, its entry into the eReader market. I can’t wait for somebody to do for journal article PDFs what the Rio did for MP3s. It’s unclear if the Nook will do this (word is that the Kindle DX is a disappointment on this count–a pity at almost $500), but [...]

The MTA is so zealous in their enforcement of trademark and copyright that, at least according to one blogger, they’ve already censored me.
That was news to me, but it wouldn’t have surprised anybody if it were true. Here’s what is:
On July 25, I uploaded this design to CafePress:

CafePress took down the design within 30 minutes [...]

Many, many commentators have expressed vivid disgust at the right wing extremists who have shouted down any chance at civil discussion over health care reform, but the Dems haven’t done very well with re-seizing the political momentum, thoughtful and still-needed suggestions about how to do so notwithstanding.
Until yesterday.
Barney Frank shot down a feisty questioner who [...]

1:20 Begins the Q&A session.
Forgive me for getting names wrong or not knowing them; will try to clean this up later.
Ethan Z. gives David Weinberger the “ceremonial first question.”
DW: Hospitality has been a big deal since the Old Testament. Has there been less focus on hospitality because of the fake intimacy with strangers from around [...]

1:11: Replacing objectivity with intersubjectivity.
The internet features a new proliferation of voices. So now, our attention is the scarce resource. How do I deal with the overload of information?
We look to institutions to solve this problem–to steer attention.
We can judge these institutions based on their hospitality–the dialectical negotiation between objectivity and hospitality.
Example: Rotten Tomatoes. It’s [...]