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Pandora goes social
Pandora, one of my favorite music discovery sites is going social. I'm psyched about it.…
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Copyright Office upcoming dates
The Copyright Office periodically sends out a summary of notices and upcoming dates and deadlines from its News Net service. News Net Issue 304, which I receive…
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Shloss Details Ten Years Of Threats From Stephen James Joyce
On Friday, December 15, we filed Carol Shloss's opposition to the Joyce Estate's motion to dismiss her claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.…
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Opening
This is the first time that I'm blogging so please be patient :). It is very hard to make even a small contribution to the issues studied at CIS when you a…
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Obama: a unifer, not a divider
Tom Friedman on Meet the Press yesterday: "Barack Obama’s great strength right now is the country is so tired of being divided. Deliberately divided, OK,…
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Changing tenor in the blogosphere
One of the noisiest partisans out there, Atrios, has indicated in a post on his blog that his relentless cynicism may be thawing slightly: "I suppose it&#…
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Whatever Happened to Online Etiquette?
From David Pogue in the New York Times: 'The deeper we sail into the new online world of communications, the sadder I get about its future. I’m OK with cr…
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FTC's application of disclosures to blogs, podcasts etc.
Jason Van Orden brought an issue about FTC rules as they apply to "affiliate marketing" to my attention today. He writes about an issue raised by Gary…
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Data Mining for Killers
One of the most challenging problems for national security is predicting and stopping terrorist attacks before they happen. The government proposes that data mi…
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"Fighting jihad in cyberspace"
This article from this month's Sydney Morning Herald describes the means by which terrorists have used the Internet to communciate and avoid detection, as w…
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Washington Post Poll and Cato Institute Report
As my biography notes, I am presently researching the alleged chilling effect of post-9/11 government security measures on the use of technology, principally th…
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Future of Music
The Future of Music Coalition holds a policy summit each year. Last October the summit was convened in Montreal, Canada, in conjunction with Pop Montreal and Mc…