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A crisis of legitimacy
I had an interesting back-and-forth with my friend Conor Sen in email this morning. I'm usually the one who sends him links to David Brooks columns in the…
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Sword or Shield? Rethinking the Federal Shield Law
The proposed federal shield law for journalists has recently had a surge in momentum, and nearly every news organization and First Amendment advocacy group is a…
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Creative Commons - Release of NonCommercial Use Study
Creative Commons just released Defining Noncommercial: A Study of How the Online Population Understands 'Noncommercial Use'. (pdf link). Here's a sn…
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The narcissism of minor differences
Cohen in the NYT today: "Some of my summer in France was spent listening to indignant outbursts about U.S. health care reform. The tone: “You must be kiddi…
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red/blue dialogue on health care part 5
This is a great dialogue. See Don's latest post here. I feel like my understanding of the issues we're discussing is improving, and I think I've g…
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red/blue dialogue on health care, part 3
Don posted his response to my blog entry here, and I encourage you all to check it out. Many thanks to him for all the quality thought! I was inspired by the…
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The bully kicking sand in your face
Dowd today: "...President Obama is so wrapped up in his desire to be a different, more conciliatory, beer-summit kind of leader, he ignores some verities.…
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The Hard Truths about Journalism
Sometimes changes are so basic and world-changing that they can be difficult to recognize. Having just finished Losing the News by Alex S. Jones, I was reminde…
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A red/blue dialogue on health care
Don Dodson and I went to high school together. And like all high schoolers, we pretty much resembled each other during the years we shared wandering the halls…
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People Can Be So Fake
I've blogged before about the impact of anthropomorphic interfaces and devices. I've recently written an article on the subject. In it I point out that…
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The SCO Phoenix Rises...Again
I made a lot of people in the Linux community unhappy when I wrote in CIO Insight ( "Battle over Linux: When a Win May Not Be a Win," Sept., 2007 ) t…
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Lori Drew Verdict Finally Overturned
I write extensively in Chapter 8 of my new book,The Laws of Disruption, about the madness of prosecuting Lori Drew, a Missouri woman, for her participation in a…