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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…
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How to Save Journalism
In May, Free Press released a report titled Saving the News: Toward a National Journalism Strategy. The 48-page document is the most intelligent and comprehens…
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Best Practices for Online Video Video
Last Summer, the Center for Social Media released the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video, a first of its kind document—coordinated by American…
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Creative Commons Filtering Comes to Yahoo Image Search
Flickr has been offering users the ability to search by Creative Commons license since mid-2006, and I've been waiting for Yahoo to implement such a feature…
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Wolfram Alpha & curated knowledge about man & woman
The web was abuzz with Wolfram Alpha the past week and I too took a test drive with varying results. Among other things I simply entered the terms 'man'…
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Obama and Open Government
The White House announced its Open Government initiative today... check it out at http://www.whitehouse.gov/open. My good friend Beth Noveck's fingerprints…
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State AG Threats To Craigslist Implicate Free Speech
This post is co-authored by Ryan Calo and CIS summer intern Joshua Auriemma. On Saturday Night Live’s classic segment “Really?!? With Seth & Amy,” two incr…
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A New Study on DRMs and their Impact on Privileged Use
Patrícia Akester from the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge has just published a new study on DRM. Here’s the…