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Brett J. Meyer
Today, I found out that Brett J. Meyer, a partner at Pryor Cashman Sherman & Flynn LLP, passed away on March 12 after a bout with cancer. As an associate a…
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Privacy Items of the Week
From Google News: Keeping snoops out of our health files The Profits In Privacy Privacy rules complicate health care Million-Dollar Payout in E-Mail Privacy…
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The roots of hatred
This is a Christian Science Monitor piece by Peter Ford from 2001, but it rings almost truer now than it probably did at the time: '...in a broader sense,…
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Craigslist and the wisdom of crowds
Interesting exchange during SXSW between Craig Newmark and Jimmy Wales: '...communities like Craigslist and Wikipedia depend entirely on the general trustw…
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A Restaurant's Right to Privacy: On Health Code Report Cards
Restaurant report cards caught my eye on my very first visit to Los Angeles. Displayed prominently in or near the entrance to every eatery, the blue A, green B…
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Yochai Benkler
Monday March 13, 2006 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch Served The talk will outline Benkler's argument that social production…
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Live Blogging of CIS Conference
Joe Gratz is blogging CIS's Cultural Environmentalism at 10 conference this weekend.…
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LSE, ICANN, GNSO feedback
The London School of Economics Public Policy Group is seeking feedback on the ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO). You can give your feedback at…
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Cooperation among chimpanzees
Carl Zimmer had a very interesting article in the March 3, 2006 Science section of the New York Times entitled "Chimps Display a Hallmark of Human Behavior…
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Google in China, and not.
It's been a long time since I last blogged, and I'm sure there are many good reasons for that. In any event, I've been paying attention to the fuss…
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CC license enforced in Holland
Adam Curry recently took a Dutch "gossip rag" to court over ripping off his photo which had been posted on flikr and licensed via Creative Commons (At…
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Excessive literalism in our public dialogue
On Friday last week Jim Emerson posted a very good analysis of a Charles Krauthammer column from the same day called Oscars for Osama. Krauthammer devoted his…