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Podcasting the Classrooom
As noted earlier on my blog, Elizabeth Townsend Gard and I are presenting at the Higher Ed Blog Con on the topic of podcasting in the traditional classroom. The…
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Does the Blogosphere have to be a race to the bottom?
Joe Gandelman has an interesting post today on the evolving voice of the Blogosphere, triggered by the recent coverage of Jill Carroll's kidnapping and rele…
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Religious Identity Isn't Destiny
Amartya Sen has a piece on Slate talking about the limitations of Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" thesis. In fact, it's an essay drawn…
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TC @ Harvard
Trusted Computing Between Closed and Open Architectures. Audio version of a talk at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, March 7,…
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Do I need a JD to enjoy professional football?
Defending the cultural relevance of watching sports is the metaphorical equivalent of washing the greenpeace bumper sticker on your Hummer H2 with gasoline spra…
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SoundScan's Musicane
Well? Okay. It has a free version. I signed up for it. And it seems to work from a usability perspective. Is it me, or is Musicane an...enigmatic name? http:/…
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How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Professor Benkler recently gave an excellent talk on peer production as a new paradigm for generating information in networked environments. He identified sever…
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Not your everyday podcast #2
Bruce Sterlings rant at SXSW is highly enjoyable and contains tons of observations worth a second thought! Get it here.…
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The Hitler Analogy
Katrina Vanden Heuvel has a good piece in the Washington Post today entitled "Update Our Insults: New Names to Call" (March 26, 2006; Page B03). It b…
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Altruism as an evil
From Craig Biddle's Introduction to the new journal The Objective Standard: "Altruism is not good for one’s life. If accepted and practiced consistent…
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Firefox: NoScript + selective image blocking = more secure browsing
Mozilla's Firefox is a great, multiplatform, open-source web browser. It has fine-grained image control built in; with the open-source extension NoScript ad…
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Cell Phone Unlocking and the DMCA
So what’s going on with the DMCA and cell-phone unlocking? Just yesterday Jennifer Granick gave testimony before the Copyright Office in which she explained wh…