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Death of John Fowles
The New York Times reports the death of British author John Fowles. It may seem a bit macabre, but the Times' obituaries are often excellent articles in th…
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Lessig interview on the major challenges facing the internet
Larry Lessig was interviewed in Foreign Policy about the row over control of the Internet. One exchange I thought was interesting: 'FP: Are the biggest ch…
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Restoring Civil Discourse
Who remembers Morton Downey Jr.? For a time his antics seemed to be an anachronism. Now, however, his spirit seems to haunt all of us. Partisanship has come…
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Jail Time in Hong Kong for Allowing Movie Downloading
I understand Hollywood's concern over lost revenue from file-sharing of movies. But this seems perhaps a bit draconian? The New York Times reports that &q…
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A Serious Case of Double-Dipping
The DirecTV litigation machinery continues to turn with the company now having sued over 25,000 individuals. Although the DTV has been accused of using “litiga…
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Friendster Stalking
Can you imagine dating in the days before Google? How would you find out anything about your counterpart? I wish I could take credit for the idea, but I have…
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Doing God's work
The last (and first) time I blogged, I thought I was taking a semi-clever jab at the whole blogging establishment. But not only did certain other people expres…
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Legislative Minds
I don't have any links to post in line with my text, so hopefully my native wit will suffice to entertain you. Whoever "you" are. Anyway, things…
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really more options?
I was struck by a quote in this story in the NY Times on the shutting down of Grokster. According to the chairman and chief executive of the National Music Publ…
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Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner investigates Yahoo HK
When Yahoo turned over information that helped the Chinese government imprison a local journalist for disclosing information about dissident action, it claimed…
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Aha! My new fancy Stanford CIS blog!
Deliighted to be here with all of you. What an honor to be invited in. I'm still reeling. Well, a good place to start with is Kofi from the Washington Po…
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More Evidence why the Patriot Act should not be renewed
The Washington Post reported this weekend that the FBI now issues more than 30,000 National Security Letters a year, according to government sources, a hundredf…