New Design Principles for the Internet
Socio-economic aspects are not intrinsic to the current Internet architecture. Today's architecture is becoming stressed as stakeholders introduce "hac…
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growing organs in a lab
"Why transplant an organ when you can grow yourself a new one? This research isn’t something that might happen in the distant future. It’s being used tod…
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Who Decides What is Newsworthy? Journalists vs. the Legal System
No one likes lawyers. My dad likes to joke that it’s a shame how 99 percent of lawyers give the rest of us a bad name. Not only am I lawyer, but I am also tra…
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Water from the air
I've long thought a technology like this could be revolutionary for the developing world. The notion that all the energy required could come from the sun i…
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PrivacyCamp Washington, DC 2009
Co-sponsored by the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Future of Privacy Forum (among others), this inaugur…
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Obama in Egypt
This is how I want my President to speak to the world. I strongly urge you to read the whole thing. "We meet at a time of tension between the United Stat…
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Patient Privacy Rights FTC Comments
Teneille Brown, Joshua Auriemma, and I helped Patient Privacy Rights draft the public comments it submitted to the Federal Trade Commission on Monday. Thanks t…
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Discussions vs. disputes vs. controversies
A friend in the eBay Israel office shared this with me... pretty interesting... "Debates are communicative exchanges that evolve in time. Their minimal un…
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Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal
Now Kristof is getting into the evolutionary psychology line of thinking: "How’s this: Would you be willing to slap your father in the face, with his perm…
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Empathy vs. Rationality
I must say, the end of the Bush era seems to have buried the part of David Brooks that got me so wound up, leaving only the part I treasure. Now all that remai…
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Google Wave
Now this is going to be cool: http://wave.google.com/ I urge you to watch the youtube video of the demo. Who knows if it's going to get critical mass --…
Shloss v. Estate of Joyce - Order on Fee Award
The Court ordered the Estate to pay more than $326,000 in attorneys' fees. After initially appealing that decision to the Ninth Circuit, the Estate thought…