On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
I'm very excited about the schedule of upcoming guests on Hearsay Culture, my radio show on KZSU-FM (5-6 PM PST on Wednesdays) and iTunes podcast. In rough…
Kevin Sweeney, a visiting faculty member at the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, had a great Op Ed in the Times on Monday entitled Running With Blinders. A…
Sanjana pointed me toward a fascinating article in the Post from a few days ago: '...The cellphone is bringing new economic clout, profit and productivity…
David Ignatius, in the Post today: '"Everyone knows that, somehow, the wheel has run off of our national discourse and our common life," Clinton…
I heard so much about the success of PodcampBoston when I was at the Podcast Expo, that I'm psyched to be able to attend Podcamp West next month on Nov. 18-…
I attended the CIS lunch speaker series yesterday where CIS Fellow David Levine gave an overview of his article about trade secrecy law and how it should be alt…
Denise Howell's VOX blog pointed me to this hilarious royalty demand from Stephen Colbert to GooTube. The math appears to be remarkably similar to that of t…
It's no secret that I'm a big believer in the Creative Commons. They just launched their second annual fund raising campaign. Click on this button, a…
While in Seattle this past weekend, I finally visited the new public library (a recent rebuild was completed in 2004). It's wildly modern, with some great l…
So, I've been recently introduced to NBC's new show this season, Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip. It's about the cast and show of a "show within…
Celebrating Achievement in Vlogs and Online Video: On November 4 a massively creative and fun group of people will be innundating the Swedish American Music Ha…
Since I'm in Seattle, it's hard to escape the news about the Starbucks losing a TM case in Korea against the purveyars of Starpreya coffee. I'm not…