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Yochai Benkler’s work on the productive possibilities of distributed peer groups relies, in part, on the example of casual carpooling.
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The September 2008 issue of Scientific American is all about the Future of Privacy.
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Crossing my fingers for a muxtape comeback.
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Comcast doesn't care about downloads. They care about uploads. The big idea is that if you can create content, they are no longer the gatekeeper.
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Shirky has a miraculous ability to articulate Net truisms in scientifically credible language. We all need to study this trick till we can do it too. (Great resource of Clay's stuff)
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SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for FreeCulture have jointly announced the first international Open Access Day. Building on the worldwide momentum toward Open Access to publicly funded research, Open Access Day will create a key opportunity for the higher education community and the general public to understand more clearly the opportunities of wider access and use of content.
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According to EFF attorney Fred von Lohmann's explanation, "The issues are fantastically complex (even most copyright experts are perplexed by the morass surrounding digital music licensing)." Given this complexity, the groups would prefer the Copyright Office simply clarify the broader contours of the compulsory licensing debate at the heart of the case and leave the rest to be decided by courts on a case-by-case basis.
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In an opinion issued late Thursday, a judge for the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court denied a motion by the American Civil Liberties Union, which had sought permission to participate in secret proceedings under the controversial FISA Amendments Act signed into law by President Bush last month.
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The era of the American Internet is ending.
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Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said on Thursday that the Internet gave presidential candidate Barack Obama the ability to bypass traditional media and claim the Democratic nomination.
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In what seems to be the worst idea in the history of television, West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin has his sight set on Facebook, claiming he’s interested in making a movie about the popular social networking site. He doesn’t understand Facebook, he says to BBC, but he’s ready to learn, thus creating his own Facebook account.
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In this 3-minute video she tells how youth personal engagement translates into adult civic engagement, bringing the parents, students and teachers together to see how the students were able to construct their own storytelling narratives rather than engage in what the researchers had expected at the outset: acts of citizen journalism.
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Marshall said he has high hopes for Hype Machine (our initial review and update) and also thinks Songbird (our review) has potential, with so many developers and an open framework.
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OAuth, the open authorization protocol standard that will let users give limited access to their data to third party websites without giving away their passwords, crossed an important threshold tonight.
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At DEFCON, Tony Kapela and Alex Pilosov demonstrated a drastic weakness in the Internet's infrastructure that had long been rumored, but wasn't believed practical.
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Judge Fogel delivers a welcome message that copyrights are not sweeping and absolute. The public’s fair use rights matter.
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TheWB.com is significantly more feature-rich than its competitors, offering an advanced search engine and allowing users to mashup selected clips from each show.
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Cyborgs!!!
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Fast growing social network Facebook has hit the 100 million users mark, according to a statement today by Dave Morin, the company's Senior Platform Manager.
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Mozilla Labs announced today that it has released a new solution called Ubiquity, which will try to bring a disjointed Web together under the auspices of that one solution.
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The ISOC Board of Trustees is pleased to publish an initial report on the issue of Trust and Identity.
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It’s a tall order, but it is important to have a consistent policy governing everything from Internet Protocol regulations to intellectual property on the Web.
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My personal and professional tipping point came early in the summer when I traveled to Harvard University and attended the Berkman at 10 event. To say it was transformative would be an understatement.
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In that same period, the school has recruited nationally recognized journalism leaders, including former CNN anchor Aaron Brown, former Minneapolis Star Tribune Editor Tim McGuire, former BET Vice President Retha Hill, former Sacramento Bee Executive Editor Rick Rodriguez, digital media pioneer Dan Gillmor and former
washingtonpost.com editors Jody Brannon and Jason Manning.
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When will the political conventions enter the Connected Age?
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The notion that any Mickey Mouse might be free of copyright restrictions is about as welcome in the Magic Kingdom as a hag with a poisoned apple. Yet elsewhere, especially in academia, the idea has attracted surprising support.
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interactive feature
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The Committee to Protect Journalists said China had blocked more than 50 Web sites carrying news or advocating on behalf of pro-Tibetan groups, including the group's site
http://www.cpj.org), before the Games began, reneging on pre-Olympics promises of Internet freedoms
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Micah Sifry, Editor of the Personal Democracy Forum
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Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.
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Princeton Internet Center's intro video
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Comcast sucks
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The Nielsen report concluded that entertainment sites have the greatest affinity with under 12s, games sites for 12-17 year-olds, and student and video sites for 18-22 year-olds.
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The law, signed by Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas in June, establishes Vermont as the only state in which virtual businesses — think Internet startups — can establish themselves as limited liability companies without having a physical headquarters, holding in-person board meetings or even filing any hard-copy paperwork.
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For 48 hours during the weekend of August 29-31 at the OLPC Physics Game Jam Boston, game developers will compete in teams of 2-4 to design and implement a physics-based game for the One Laptop per Child XO laptop.
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Who Will Digitize the World's Books? By Jean-Claude Guédon, Boudewijn Walraven, Reply by Robert Darnton In response to The Library in the New Age (June 12, 2008)
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The goal of the game, called Honorarium, is to assemble lectures by moving Tetris-like shapes onto a screen at the front of a lecture hall.
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Would-be reformers are trying to beat the high cost — and, they say, the dumbing down — of college materials by writing or promoting open-source, no-cost online texts.
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via EZ. Interesting article
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I was actually just trying to channel the network wisdom of Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth of Networks
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Yet as a new school year begins, the time may have come to reconsider how large a role technology can play in changing education
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National Science Foundation has put together a really great web site that tells the story of the birth of the Internet
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When I think about what the future desktop is going to look like it seems to be a convergence of several different kinds of services that we currently view as separate.
