Very intelligent, thoughtful post about blogs in education by David Carraher, also a day-one blogger.  I’m still trying to figure out how to use blogs in the classroom for a course I’m teaching next Fall at Harvard Law School on Cyberlaw and the Global Economy.  Mr. Carraher’s insights are good ones for starters.

Read more..

Professor Greenspun’s first post to his new blog about public education and politics has lit up a firestorm.  It’s certainly what Charlie Nesson would call a stimulus piece — more hits to his blog today, on day one, than to the perhaps all the blogs we’re hosting in the aggregate.  There’s value in that, somehow.  I’m reflexively…

Read more..

Creative Commons holds out all sorts of promise.  At present, of course, if you create something on the Web — a blog entry, or an audio file you’ve posted, or whatever — full (c) attaches automatically.  It would be an enormous victory if one could change the default from full (c) protection on the Web to some…

Read more..

Charlie Nesson always says that it’s a great way to teach to have a “stimulus piece” and then a feedback loop.  He’s a master of the method.  Here’s today’s stimulus piece for the IOP session at 4:00 p.m.

Read more..

Jonathan Zittrain and I have been leading a Study Group at the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government this semester on Civil Liberties in Cyberspace.  Today’s session, (Tuesday, April 8, 2003) at 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., is to talk about Weblogs and their speech implications.  It takes place in the Faculty Dining…

Read more..

One thing I’ve been wondering about from time to time: the copyright implications of news aggregators and the increasingly widespread use of RSS feeds.  I’m told by serious bloggers and technologists who wrote the code — like Dave — that it’s understood that an RSS feed is to be republished and it’s not a big…

Read more..

Donna Wentworth suggests that the “next step is a ‘Geektivist’s Guide to Net Politics’ — telling people precisely what to do with their energies.”  I think she’s definitely right in concept, even though we might keep working on the title…

Read more..

I think Larry Lessig is getting fired up, and it’s terrific.  Something is happening here.  Count me in.

Read more..

I didn’t like the sound of yesterday’s Alan Greenspan testimony that touched on IP from the news reports, but the full text makes it sound less ominous.  Pretty learned guy, or else well-briefed by his speechwriters.  He’s certainly not missed the productivity gains of new technologies.  I just wonder where he thinks the “balance” should…

Read more..

I have a recurring feeling that the MPAA and the RIAA may just have over-reached this past week.  The lawsuit against college students by the RIAA is, definitely, a change in strategy: going after customers, and young, tech-savvy ones at that, rather than at technologists who were in the role of middle-persons.  The state-level super-DMCAs…

Read more..

More testimony from Matt at the MA super-DMCA hearing on Wednesday.  I hope people in other states are paying attention and re-use some of the very good points from competent technical people about why these proposed laws are a bad idea.

Read more..

The ever-vigilant, ever-activist Electronic Frontier Foundation tells you what you can do to fight the patently absurd super-DMCAs being proposed in lots of states around country.

Read more..