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Morgan Spurlock on Civil Discourse

I didn't see Katie Couric's debut broadcast yesterday, but I heard she had Morgan Spurlock (writer and director of Super Size Me and the interesting sho…

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Building Agreement Through Aggression

From CNN.com, "Ex-Iranian leader blames Bush policies for terrorism," posted 2:24 p.m. EDT, September 4, 2006: '...former Iranian President Moham…

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How can you live in the northeast?

Great song by Paul Simon on his latest album, Surprise: "We heard the fireworks. Rushed out to watch the sky. Happy go lucky. Fourth of July. How can you…

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Government Paradox 101

So it's a little dated (mid-August), but I was morbidly amused at this article and headline from Federaltimes.com: "Transparency bill subjected to secr…

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Sound Policy with Denise Howell

Denise Howell interviewed me recently for her podcast series Sound Policy on IT Conversations. It's now available for downloading. Here's the descriptio…

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swamped, but check this out

I've been busily trying to finish an article I'm writing with Elizabeth Townsend Gard about podcasting in corpoarations and universities, but had to dro…

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(Untitled)

I was surprised reading the SF Chronicle today to learn that AB2987 is going to be voted on this week. There's a great series of video clips/interviews bot…

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Attribution "Plugins" for CC Licenses?

The problem of dealing with derived works has existed from the very beginning. From the very first days of the Open Publication License in 1998 I've had lon…

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August Vacation / SMU course

Forgive the sporadic posts -- I'm just getting back into the swing of things after a long stretch in Kauai with Cheryl and the boys.  It was a beautiful tri…

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Technologies of Peace and War

My good friend Sanjana Hattotuwa recently wrote on his blog ICT4Peace: "To limit the use of technology to pacifism is, I would argue, to stunt its develop…