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City of (Big) Brotherly Love

I imagine the subset of individuals that read the Center's blogs but not, for instance, Boing Boing to be in the (low) single digits.  I still could not res…

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You Go, Google!

Daniel Begun of Hot Hardware News reports that "Google will take an even more active role in the debate  [over net neutrality] by arming consumers with the…

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International Cybercrime (Of The Horse)

A colleague and I were just discussing a new international working group, chaired by the FBI, which has “band[ed] together to fight cyber crime in a synergistic…

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Create a personal website in 2 minutes

Israel is a buzzing hive of small start-up technology companies that produce great ideas and original solutions. One of them is WIX, which offers a (free - as f…

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Stanford FCC Hearing Highlights

Highlights of Thursday’s FCC hearing at Stanford in no particular order: 1.  Finding myself nodding in vigorous agreement with the testimony of the Christian C…

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The Information Revolution in 10 years

I had the pleasure of participating in the excellent Legal Futures Conference sponsored by CIS and Google last month, where I was on a panel of “lightning talke…

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The will to write oneself

I received some inquiries about what have I been up to lately. First of all I am teaching an introduction to Science and Technology Studies at UT Austin and jus…