Archive for July, 2008
amar - July 31, 2008 @ 7:32 am
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The faculty of the Stanford University School of Education voted unanimously “in support of greater openness in scholarly and educational endeavors,”
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Video clips from The Future of Civic Media, our first annual conference held last month at MIT, are now available:
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amar - July 30, 2008 @ 7:33 am
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Question: Can you hide on the Internet?
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How patent gridlock is blocking the development of lifesaving drugs.
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Gosper, however, issued a clarification Tuesday. He said the open Internet extended only to sites that related to “Olympic competitions.
amar - July 29, 2008 @ 7:32 am
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The US Senate today embarks on what could become years of antitrust investigations into Google by the IT, telecoms and media industries.
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At a Berkman center session last week about supporting investigative and international reporting
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What Google Did for me was radically improve one of the most annoying experiences in the Webbed world: registering a domain name.
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Women in Linux (or technology in general) has always been a rare breed
amar - July 12, 2008 @ 7:32 am
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Is Google casting aside the library community?
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I worry that some kinds of progress in information technology are depleting a kind of civic ozone layer.
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It’s simple: whoever owns some goods that can easily be replicated on the Internet wants to exert the biggest possible level of control over how this is done.
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But in a sense, the Times’ digital division is like a small software company — working with the same philosophy as a lot of Silicon Valley: Build neat tools, get traction, and then figure out how to make money off them later
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As Microsoft backs away from digitizing old texts, some worry that a single company could privatize world knowledge.
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In the aftermath of Grokster, I have been researching and writing about a problem that can be called “inadvertent file-sharing.”
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Ryan Mark, one of the first two winners of our journalism scholarships for computer programmers, wonders why it’s so hard to get usable government data.
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Or, put another way, how does the content featured on user-generated sites differ from content selected by professional editors?
amar - July 10, 2008 @ 7:32 am
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People like Stodden - who serve as brokers between those with technology skills and those thirsty to learn them - are instrumental to the success of Rising Voices projects.
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The Get FISA Right movement we’ve been covering it this space has launched a last-ditch effort to raise heck around today’s Senate debate of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,
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If it turns out that blogging and other forms of citizen media lead communities to talk an issue to death without acting on it, then does Global Voices’ evangelism of citizen media promote more social inaction?
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A group of us at the Center for Future Civic Media is working on a white paper defining “civic media.
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Kaminsky said he stumbled across the hole in the so-called DNS system for steering people to the websites they are seeking “by complete and total accident.”
amar - July 8, 2008 @ 7:34 am
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Chris Hughes takes that as a compliment.
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We’ve posted another chunk of video of plenary sessions from “Personal Democracy Forum 2008: Rebooting the System” on our
Blip.tv channel at
pdf.blip.tv.
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However, the strength of tools such as Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter rests upon their ease of use and most users will not take the additional steps necessary to protect ones privacy
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Aren’t the records of where you surf, and for that matter, the videos you choose to upload to YouTube, worth at least as much protection?
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today’s digital generation is becoming insulated in its own stultifying cocoon of bad spelling, civic illiteracy and endless postings that hopelessly confuse triviality with transcendence.
amar - July 7, 2008 @ 7:32 am
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Users get caught in the crossfire as hundreds of individual service representatives apply their own interpretations of corporate policies, sometimes imposing personal agendas or misreading guidelines
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One of the most fascinating facets of the increasing internationalization of malware is the cultural assumptions around such software.
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amar - July 4, 2008 @ 7:31 am
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The Court’s erroneous ruling is a set-back to privacy rights, and will allow Viacom to see what you are watching on YouTube.
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There’s a lot of power to be tapped here. How it is used, who gets to do what, and who listens to whom, are questions that will matter a great deal going forward.
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A new report from Pew Internet shows that broadband growth in the U.S. has slowed down to a crawl, a sign that U.S. broadband carriers would have to work hard to find ways to grow their overall businesses
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Fatal Exception’s Neil McAllister raises questions regarding the transforming nature of the Web now that Tim Berners-Lee’s early vision has been supplanted by today’s much more complex model
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Senator Barack Obama’s decision to support legislation granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Bush administration’s program of wiretapping without warrants has led to an intense backlash among some of his most
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The U.S. military is looking for a contractor to patrol cyberspace, watching for warning signs of forthcoming terrorist attacks or other hostile activity on the Web.
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amar - July 3, 2008 @ 7:40 am
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Video of Zittrain at PDF
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but it’s one indication of the determination of some people in China to exchange information despite state efforts to control online communications.
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Blue State helped create the Web machine that brought in the bucks and built the buzz. Now it’s looking to sign up more corporate clients
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Now, after 18 months of publishing government, industry and military secrets that have sparked international scandals
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amar - July 2, 2008 @ 7:33 am
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. The freedom to keep your data for yourself and the freedom to run free software
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Microsoft is making a big investment in innovation in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Features ONI, Rebecca Mackinnon
