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Must RFID-Legislation Be Technology Neutral?
It is a common mantra both of industry’s and consumers’ advocates that legislation related to radio frequency identification ("RFID") should be techno…
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When Dolphins Fight Back
The RIAA once infamously likened it's campaign of lawsuits against individual filesharers, which has included suits against clearly innocent grandparents, p…
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US Myspace Libel Case
C-Net is reporting that a school principal in the US state of Pennsylvania has filed a libel suit against four ex-students who, he alleges, harmed his reputatio…
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the agents of normalcy and entrenchment
Interesting backlash to the O'Reilly's Blogger Code of Conduct. Nate Anderson on Ars Technica talking about "the tyranny of good intentions":…
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diagram of a blog
Very clever Op-Art from Paula Scher and the NYT (hat tip to Diane)…
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Blogging Code of Conduct
Lots of buzz on the internets today about Tim O'Reilly's proposed Blogging Code of Conduct... My opinion: It's about damn time. The conversation r…
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DRM-free music from Apple & Microsoft
Apple has announced it would offer DRM-free music through iTunes. The offer is limited to the music catalog of one of the Major Labels, EMI. Customers still ca…
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The Recasting of Copyright & Related Rights for the Knowledge Economy
P.B. Hugenholtz, M.M.M. van Eechoud, S.J. van Gompel et al., from U. of Amsterdam, Institute of Information Law have published their report to the European Comm…
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Muni Wifi in SF helps Low Income Residents get Wired
Wired News has a nice article about how Muni Wifi is helping low income residents in San Francisco get wired: Last month, volunteers turned on a novel broadban…
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Free software and Public Administration
From the Italian Association for Free Software (Associazione Software Libero) a press release about a case concerning free software and Public Administration &…
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Anger and video games
This is the first discussion of this oft-emotional topic that I feel corresponds to my first hand experience... "Study finds stable personalities unaffecte…
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The banality of heroism
Philip Zimbardo: "Heroes come in two main casts; life-long heroes, like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and heroes of the moment…