shouting loudly

As two recent stories point out, our actual telescreens cost hundreds of dollars and have designer labels.

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.

Professor Lessig is presenting on Institutional Corruption today at the Kennedy School as his first public appearance at Harvard since his return a few months ago.
Professor Lessig likes to introduce three ideas to frame his talk today: 1) influence, 2) independence and 3) responsibility.
Relying on his framework of the four modalities of control [...]

By now I’m sure we’ve all heard about Congressman Joe Wilson’s (R-SC) outburst during President Obama’s Health Care speech on Wednesday.  After Obama claimed that his bill would not cover illegal immigrants, Republicans en masse erupted in murmuring.  That’s common during a joint session of congress.  Then, after they’d quieted down, Wilson took the opportunity [...]

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 [...]

Over at Public Knowledge, Robb Topolski has written an inspirational post, ISPs Behaving Badly, which criticizes Time Warner’s trial runs at tiered pricing.
I’m not opposed to tiered pricing in principle, though TW appears to have handled it rather badly, and it still fails to solve the root problem of weak competition in the wireline ISP [...]

In attempting to build a vibrant community-of-interest, every political blog faces a policy choice of sorts: what kind of commentary will we allow.  Some of the basics are easy to sketch out and universally applicable.  Disagreement is good, but flame wars are bad.  Don’t engage in ad hominem attacks. The site owner/moderators reserve the right [...]