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Redress and the expanding role of government under Obama
Krugman today: "...the Bushies didn’t have to worry about governing well and honestly. Even when they failed on the job (as they so often did), they could…
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E-Books: Who's E-Reading Over Your Shoulder?
Electronic books are a little like flying cars; always right about to catch on. Today the New York Times asks “Could book lovers finally be willing to switch f…
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Virtual Peace: Humanitarian Assistance Training Simulator
from virtualpeace.org: "Virtual Peace reflects a rich, interdisciplinary collaboration among experts and educators at the Duke-UNC Rotary Center for Inter…
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ICANN's Plan for New Top Level Domains
ICANN’s recent initiative to open the generic domain names space to an application, register-your-favorite-gTLD process struck me as very problematic from the m…
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Two Serious Problems With GPS-Aided Car Repossession
A recent Computerworld blog post shows how tone deaf we can be about the implications of new technology. A group of car dealers in Oregon apparently attached…
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My Buddies App On Facebook: Privacy Extortion?
UPDATE (Dec. 14, 2008): A user has created a Facebook Group against My Buddies. Meanwhile, as Beth says below, My Buddies has mutated into My Friends... I rec…
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Lexicon Resurrected
As announced yesterday and reported first by the Leaky Cauldron and then the Associated Press, RDR Books has withdrawn its appeal from the Court's decision…
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Updegrove on "A Standards Agenda For The Obama Administration"
Andy Updegrove of Gesmer Updegrove in Boston advises standards setting organizations on navigating the legal waters surrounding production of technical standard…
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James Gleick on the Google Book Search Deal
In case you have not seen it yet, here’s James Gleick’s OP-ED in the NYT, discussing the settlement between Google and book authors and publishers. The interest…
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Hearsay Culture selected as one of the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 of 2008
I am thrilled and honored to announce that Hearsay Culture has been listed in the American Bar Association ("ABA") Journal's Blawg 100 of 2008, as…
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Search Terms May Bolster Case Against Casey Anthony
The United Press International reports that "[n]ewly released documents in Florida's Caylee Anthony case show ominous search words entered on the famil…
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Obama’s Tech Team: Agency Insiders With Silicon Valleyues
A Washington Post tech blogger reports that President-elect Barak Obama has named a team to guide technology policy for the administration: Julius Genachowski (…