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E-Voting doesn’t meet standards of E-gambling
June 14, 2004Opinion > Making Votes Count: Gambling on Voting” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/opinion/13SUN1.html?ex=1402459200&en=40e4afe91f2a555f&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND”>Opinion: Making Votes Count: Gambling on Voting. New York Times, June 13, 2004. Dan Gillmor points to this NYT editorial that compares standards for gambling machines to the lack of standards and testing and regulation for e-voting machines. He notes that the editorial page is doing much [...]
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Copyright Articles
June 12, 2004Edward W. Felten at Freedom to Tinker points to and summarizes two excellent articles about copyright. Copyright’s Communications Policy by Timothy Wu. Wu is Associate Professor of Law at University of Virginia. This 96 page pdf document discusses the historical context of “copyright’s poorly understood role in the regulating competition among rival disseminators.” Mark Lemley’s [...]
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Social Tools
June 12, 2004The State of Social Tools BY STOWE BOYD, Darwin Magazine, June 2004. The big story of the transformation of business culture isn’t the props Ñ the servers, networks, ten million websites, and all the information lying around in databases and in HTML Ñ but what people are saying to each other and how they coordinate [...]
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Blogging Literature: one day at a time
June 12, 2004Here is an interesting idea: blog a famous work of literature, full text, one day at a time. Three examples: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci started at page 1 on May 30th, 2004 The Diary Of Samuel Pepys This site is a presentation of the diaries of Samuel Pepys, the renowned 17th century diarist [...]
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The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report
June 9, 2004The Free Expression Policy Project By Nancy Kranich Senior Research Fellow, 2003-04 and the FEPP and past president of the American Library Association. In the last decade, mass media companies have developed methods of control that undermine the public’s traditional rights to use, share, and reproduce information and ideas. These technologies, combined with dramatic consolidation [...]
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More need, New Needs for the FCC?
June 8, 2004While Declan suggests that the FCC is no longer needed, we see today’s Wall Street Journal has a story that describes new problems, caused by technological changes, that, it seems to me, may require more regulation, not less. . Airports Clash With Airlines Over Wi-Fi by Amy Schatz. Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, [...]
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Declan says: die FCC
June 8, 2004Why the FCC should die Declan McCullagh argues pursuasively that the FCC has outlived its usefulness and has become a major source of “bureaucratic malfeasance” (media centralization, restricting first amendment rights…). I agree with the first part of his thesis. However, his solution of privatizing the whole spectrum is completely off the mark. The airwaves [...]
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Your RSS is in my OAI!
June 8, 2004RSS: From Grassroots to Mass Appeal Here’s a solid overview article on RSS by Stephen Downes. One of the more interesting things he points out is the similarity between RSS (used by bloggers and news sites primarily) and OAI (used by the academic arena). Read on! Operating parallel to RSS, and using a slightly different [...]
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Abusable technology awareness center
June 8, 2004ATAC: Abusable Technologies Awareness Center This looks like quite a useful blog. Their goal is to “provide current and accurate information about technology that oversteps its bounds.” The list of panelists is quite impressive and, if the first two posts are any proof, there is quite a bit of interesting discussion going on here (see [...]
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Bush not bound by torture treaty
June 8, 2004Washington > Legal Opinions: Lawyers Decided Bans on Torture Didn’t Bind Bush” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/politics/08ABUS.html?hp”>”Legal Opinions: Administration lawyers decided bans on torture didn’t bind Bush” (Log in may be required) A team of administration lawyers concluded in a March 2003 legal memorandum that President Bush was not bound by either an international treaty prohibiting torture or by [...]