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The People's Court - RAW

Jeff Bercovici on Conde Nast's Portfolio.com: "Over the weekend, I stumbled across what appears to be a stealth-marketing campaign for a new website, P…

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Create a personal website in 2 minutes

Israel is a buzzing hive of small start-up technology companies that produce great ideas and original solutions. One of them is WIX, which offers a (free - as f…

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Facebook 'Em, Dano

EPIC fellow Guilherme Roschke writes about the sophisticated Facebook presence of Greater Manchester Police and its ramifications for citizen privacy. He notes…

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Bork, Blockbuster & Beacon

Ars Technica reports: "Texas native Cathryn Elaine Harris has filed a lawsuit against Blockbuster, alleging that the company is actively and knowingly vio…

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Trying to find common ground on Tibet

Shaila Dewan in the NYT: "Ms. Wang, who had friends on both sides, tried to get the two groups to talk, participants said. She began traversing what she ca…

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Stanford FCC Hearing Highlights

Highlights of Thursday’s FCC hearing at Stanford in no particular order: 1.  Finding myself nodding in vigorous agreement with the testimony of the Christian C…

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Divided We Fall

Kristof in the Times today: "To understand your feelings about Wednesday night’s debate, consider the Dartmouth-Princeton football game in 1951. That bitte…