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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…
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Grokster, Japan Style
Just received a link to this article which reports on the outcome of the Japanese version of our Grokster case, only this case is in the criminal context (rathe…
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Technopolitics Bar Camp
You may be interested in this conference. I am on the Board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) and will be at the event. _______ CPSR…
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The Triumph Of Self-Expression In Digital Media
The cover story in the Arts & Leisure section of the Sunday New York Times is about the rising "tsunami of self-expression" that has flooded the w…