amar - June 28, 2008 @ 7:32 am
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and why he believes that just writing blogs won’t change the world.
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Authoritarian governments can lock up bloggers. It is harder to outwit them
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Researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz have built a test extension called WikiTrust that evaluates every word on Wikipedia and highlights text that was added by authors with a less than stellar reputation.
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Good evening. In my talk tonight, I would like to raise the question, How is the internet changing literary style?
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ot only is a hits-based business more profitable for vendors according to the new research, but the research suggests that consumers also derive more enjoyment from the hits, rather than the tail. In short, the researchers find that ‘the tail is long and
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It was a compelling idea: In the digitized world, there’s more money to be made in niche offerings than in blockbusters. The data tell a different story.
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ICANN is back, with what is probably its most stupid idea yet:
amar - June 27, 2008 @ 7:34 am
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MySpace is taking a much more interesting approach than Google, which controls data sent to third party sites via an iframe.
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She discovered that nearly all the posts on the site that mentioned her or her work had disappeared
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one of his most popular pieces of content on his blog is 14 seconds of former White House aide David Gergen on the dance floor at Davos 2008.
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This week, we’re thrilled to announce the 50 millionth view of a TEDTalks video. To keep up with the growing demand, we’re making a significant expansion of our publishing schedule, with a talk now being released every weekday.
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The organization that oversees Internet addresses on Thursday approved a proposal to create an unlimited number of so-called top-level domains — the familiar suffixes like “.com” at the end of Web addresses.
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The award, made public Wedesday by U.S. District Judge James A. Redden of Oregon, marks the second time that a target of the RIAA who beat a lawsuit was awarded attorney’s fees.
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amar - June 26, 2008 @ 7:32 am
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esearchers Eszter Hargittai and Gina Walejko found that men were much more likely to post their writings, photos, videos, and other creations on the Internet than women, despite the fact that they were equally likely to participate in such activities.
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“There’s the thin nerdy line between us and chaos,” he says. This is Zittrain’s light moment
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By Jonathan Zittrain
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amar - June 25, 2008 @ 7:33 am
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James Grimmelmann has an interesting new essay, “Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law,” on the challenges of ensuring that the public has effective knowledge of the laws.
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In a policy talk called “Beyond Milk Cartons: Keeping kids safe in a digital world”, Ernie provided an overview of NCMEC’s work and chatted with Googlers about the ever-changing landscape of child protection challenges shared by parents
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Zittrain’s book is a must read for those who care – or who should care – about the Internet’s future. But don’t expect to find a happy end of how to stop it.
amar - June 24, 2008 @ 7:33 am
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Anyone who persists in illicit downloading of music or films will be barred from broadband access under a controversial new law that makes France a pioneer in combating internet piracy.
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Long before Mr. Russert’s death was reported on air, however, it was flashing across the Internet via the text-messaging service Twitter and the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
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The World Information Access 2008 Report presents important trends in the distribution of information and communication technologies around the world.
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“You have zero privacy anyway… Get over it.”
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And that’s when his home burglar alarm goes off.
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Zhang’s observations come just over a month after China admitted that it doesn’t plan to fully open the Internet during this summer’s Olympic Games as was previously expected.
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Workers need to become savvier, and venture fund officials should convince companies they invest in to stop demanding non-compete agreements, Maeder said, adding that he’s going to do more in this regard himself.
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Now he wants to start a Twitter-driven network for emergency situations such as the one he went through, according to The Industry Standard.
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An organisation that finds missing children has found a new weapon in their war against child abductions: Facebook.
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What we need is a foundation that serves as the middle man between government needs and programmers’ abilities.
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Feminist legal writers have explored the personhood metaphor as it is used in copyright.
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Mr. Bessen’s critique of the patent system does not go so far as that of economists like Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
amar - June 19, 2008 @ 7:33 am
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The Organization for economic Co-operation and Development will work with developed and developing countries and international organizations to improve policies for the Internet economy and increase international co-operation on issues such as cybercrime
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Reddit today announced that it is open-sourcing almost all the code that powers its site and community.
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The problem with this kind of casual DNA testing is that it almost trivializes the importance of genetic information. 23andMe considers itself as something of a novelty, providing lots of fascinating information that it says isn’t to be used to diagnose
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If you’ve ever wondered how pages are selected for archiving, or just how they manage such a huge quantity of data, the answers are here.
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So in short, Google wasn’t providing the ROI they were after.
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A “‘virtual company’ will be, as a legal matter, a Vermont limited liability company,” (oliver goodenough’s work)
amar - June 18, 2008 @ 7:33 am
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Hi everyone: Come join us for the 40th anniversary of the birth of the internet! Hosted at UCLA, where it all started.
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The report highlights the growing importance of commercial imagery in monitoring abuses in areas otherwise off-limits to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
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Howard also suggests that the real number of arrests may be much higher, as not every arrest makes it into the media.
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The case of Judge Alex Kozinski has a lot to teach us about privacy and community standards on the Internet.
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China’s webspace is infamous for censorship, but increasingly, public relations firms there are helping their clients “manage” online conversations.
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This site is designed to be a center point of communication for young people who need support and encouragement as they try to enter the blogging world.
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So really, just how mainstream are blogs?
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to my knowledge, a rather unique publication in that it seeks to educate teenage youth about an array of issues ranging from privacy, free software, security and the impact of politics on personal freedom as it relates to the use of technology
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What the respondents appear to want is an unlimited download service free of DRM that could be legally accessed for a monthly fee, something that doesn’t yet exist
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The idea is to return public spaces to people in order to encourage them to take greater personal responsibility. Monderman explained, “We’re losing our capacity for socially responsible behavior….The greater the number of prescriptions, the more pe
