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The common ground foundation
Our President, last night: "I know how unpopular it is to be seen as helping banks right now, especially when everyone is suffering in part from their bad…
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The template for every news story you've ever seen
The Brits nail it better than the Daily Show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4 Amazing how a couple edits and on-the-street interviews can transform…
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Software And Application Evaluator WhatApp Nears Public Release
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society (CIS), discusses WhatApp, a project initiated by CIS to assess the security and privacy…
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Name Your Price? Walker Digital places IP portfolio for licensing/purchase.
This morning I received an email from ICAP - Ocean Tomo informing that they are the exclusive broker for about 700 patents in the Walker Digital portfolio. Pre…
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Thoughts on Comcast v. FCC
I published the first of two pieces on CNET today about interesting and even encouraging developments in Washington over Internet policy. (See “New Year, New P…
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Cyber Détente
Late last year the Obama administration reopened talks with Russia over the militarization of cyberspace and assented to cybersecurity discussion in the United…
Opening Statement at the Federal Communications Commission’s Workshop on Innovation, Investment and the Open Internet in Cambridge, MA - WC Docket No. 07-52, GN Docket No. 09-191
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Google's Stunning Indictment of the Chinese Government
What is so amazing about the news that Google will stop censoring search results in China and may pull out altogether, is that the impetus for this has nothing…
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wisdom of crowds vs. meanness of mobs
Jeffery A. Salter in The New York Times: "In the 1990s, Jaron Lanier was one of the digital pioneers hailing the wonderful possibilities that would be real…
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Former Boyfriend Used Craigslist To Arrange Woman's Rape, Police Say
Center for Internet Fellow Ryan Calo talked to the LA Times' DeeDee Correll about the role of Craigslist in a criminal case involving Jebidiah James Stipe,…
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Tinselgate and online redress
An inside chonicle of the kerfluffle (a.k.a "Tinselgate") over the White House xmas tree, with an ODR emphasis added: "During the first three we…
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The Net Neutrality Doublespeak
An interesting tempest in a teapot has emerged this week following some overblown rhetoric by and in response to celebrity causemeister Bono. There’s a deeper l…