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Regulating Search Engine Optimization

From an anonymous executive, today on Tech Crunch: "Imagine, if you will, that the entire Internet is contained within a single continent. That continent…

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Born into a point of view

Peggy Noonan in the WSJ: "Sarah Palin's resignation gives Republicans a new opportunity to see her plain—to review the bidding, see her strengths, ackn…

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Privacy and the Democratization of Fame

If privacy and the ability to preserve your reputation are essential components to personal freedom, then Michael Jackson was imprisoned.  As the media hysteria…

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Facebook's future: "Wall" or nothing?

In “The Great Wall of Facebook,” Wired’s Fred Vogelstein contends that Facebook and Google are approaching a “full-blown battle over the future of the Internet.…

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Coming Through the Rye No More

Read more here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_books_salinger http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/books/02salinger.html?partner=rss&emc=rs…

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Technically Women

Inspired by a blog post last year by ZDNet's Dennis Howlett, a group of prominent women in technology have formed a new blog called Technically Women. Techn…

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Supreme Court Denies Cablevision Review

Today the Supreme Court reportedly resolved not to hear the appeal on the Second Circuit’s Cablevision decision. This denial comes shortly after the Court has r…

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Debunking evo psych

Sharon Begley in Newsweek: "These have not been easy days for evolutionary psychology. For years the loudest critics have been social scientists, feminists…

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Go big or go home

Reading today's Paul Krugman: "On one side there’s Barack the Policy Wonk, whose command of the issues — and ability to explain those issues in plain E…

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Typography for lawyers

Through the fortunes of Twitter, @VBalasubramani (and his RT of @AdrianL), I came upon this awesome guide for lawyers who are sticklers for how their documents…