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"Teach Peace" as a political slogan

I think I can see how conflict resolution is being politicized, and why it is raising the hackles of some on the political right.  Those who opposed the war are…

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Judge Posner and Pragmatism

As I wind my way through the books on political theory and democracy I find it pretty depressing.  Especially now that I'm reading Judge Posner's Pragma…

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Wash Int Daily

November 28, 2005- "Search Query Use in Murder Case Spawns Privacy Concerns" in Washington Internet Daily. Juries can give too much weight to digital…

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Tim Wu

Tim Wu Professor, Columbia University Monday November 28, 2005 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch Served Television's now-domin…

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Distributed Journalism

Newspaper circulation has been on a steady decline for the last twenty years.  For those of us, like me and Thomas Jefferson, who believe that an informed publi…

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And You Thought Payola Was Dead

Intrepid New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is now offering further indicia of the sad state of the world of big commercial music through investigations un…

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THE IMPORTANCE OF COLLATERAL COMMUNICATIONS AND DELIBERATIVE DISCOURSE IN BUIDLING INTERNET-BASED, MEDIA REFORM MOVEMENTS…

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Bit Torrent goes to Hollywood...

A year ago, Bram Cohen created the BitTorrent protocol.  BitTorrent makes it easy to download large files quickly because you download pieces of the large file…