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Keeping Up With The Joneses
From Elizabeth Gudrais' cover story in Harvard Magazine (hat tip to Minh): "The United States is becoming even more unequal as income becomes more conc…
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J.B. White On Advertising
J.B. White, my former professor, has written a powerful essay (pages 98-103) on the evils of reducing the human experience to mere economics. Here is an excerp…
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More like Monkeys
Roy Baumeister in Psychology Today: "Economists think that if people were true to financial logic, they would act more like monkeys..." "Keith C…
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CIS at Tres Agaves
The CIS team tied for third place against Berkeley's Law and Technology Group at EFF's 18th Birthday Celebration/Pub Trivia night.…
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A trillion trillion possibilities
David Brooks in today's New York Times: "Studies designed to link specific genes to behavior have failed to find anything larger than very small associ…
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Gmailosaurus
It’s official: Wired Magazine has placed worrying about privacy on Gmail in the final column marked “expired.” (What’s “wired”? Worrying about privacy on Goog…
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Survey of Eco / Green Intellectual Property
With increased interest in global warming, green building and ecologically friendly behaviors, I initially observed that there was fairly little chatter concern…
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The Traditions of Knoweldge II
In a previous post, the Traditions of Knowledge I referred to the appropriation of traditional knowledge by means of industrial revolution intellectual property…
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The Traditions of Knowledge
Conventional intellectual property laws claim to confer rights only on knowledge that is individually authored, reduced to material form and 'original'…
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Center for Social Media Releases Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
Building on the tremendous success they have achieved with the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, the Center for Social Media…
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Why SDNY, Why?
Wired's Threat Level is reporting that a court (the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York) has ordered Google "to turn over every r…
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Hearsay Culture upcoming schedule and fall guests
I have posted Hearsay Culture's schedule for the remainder of the summer quarter, as well as the list of guests for the fall quarter. As you'll see, it…