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Brett J. Meyer

Today, I found out that Brett J. Meyer, a partner at Pryor Cashman Sherman & Flynn LLP, passed away on March 12 after a bout with cancer.  As an associate a…

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Privacy Items of the Week

From Google News: Keeping snoops out of our health files The Profits In Privacy Privacy rules complicate health care Million-Dollar Payout in E-Mail Privacy…

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The roots of hatred

This is a Christian Science Monitor piece by Peter Ford from 2001, but it rings almost truer now than it probably did at the time: '...in a broader sense,…

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Craigslist and the wisdom of crowds

Interesting exchange during SXSW between Craig Newmark and Jimmy Wales: '...communities like Craigslist and Wikipedia depend entirely on the general trustw…

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Yochai Benkler

Monday March 13, 2006 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch Served The talk will outline Benkler's argument that social production…

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LSE, ICANN, GNSO feedback

The London School of Economics Public Policy Group is seeking feedback on the ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO). You can give your feedback at…

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Cooperation among chimpanzees

Carl Zimmer had a very interesting article in the March 3, 2006 Science section of the New York Times entitled "Chimps Display a Hallmark of Human Behavior…

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Google in China, and not.

It's been a long time since I last blogged, and I'm sure there are many good reasons for that. In any event, I've been paying attention to the fuss…

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CC license enforced in Holland

Adam Curry recently took a Dutch "gossip rag" to court over ripping off his photo which had been posted on flikr and licensed via Creative Commons (At…