This is a default category that holds all the entries that I have failed to categorize properly! I hope to get this list down to zero over time.
Words to the wise academics who blog then look to get a job, from the Chronicle of Higher Education. A snippet: “Worst of all, for professional academics, it’s a publishing medium with no vetting process, no review board, and no editor. The author is the sole judge of what constitutes publishable material, and the medium … Read more
I can’t think of anything to say other than that I am thinking of our British friends. Others have done a better job of what to say. And a demonstration of why Flickr is so powerful.
I don’t have any data to prove it, but I’d guess that cyberspace is growing today at a much faster pace in absolute terms than it ever has before. The citizens’ media movement has a great deal to do with that, as do innovations like Creative Commons and other forms of institutional support for new … Read more
So much for the automatic kind: the best Grokster roundups are by people: see Donna, Ernest, Derek et al.
Right now, in Geneva, our colleague Derek Bambauer is in Geneva presenting a paper that he, David Abrams and I have written that compare the world’s anti-spam laws and takes up the problem of whether a model law is possible.
The entertainment industry and big technology companies, often at one another’s throats in Washington, should be able to get along. In a digital age, after all, they need one another if they are both to thrive. They both got something to cheer about in the Grokster ruling handed down earlier today. The Supreme Court threaded … Read more
Apparently unanimously held against Grokster, Streamcast. AP has the story. Justice Souter’s majority opinion is here.
The LA Times covers Hoder’s heroic trip home for the vote for the presidency in Iran. Bravo to the many people in the online community who supported this trip, in myriad ways, and, of course, to the man himself. (We at the ONI have been looking hard at Iran this week and our studies suggest … Read more
Join the H2O project here if you’d like to pursue the critique and discussion of Prof. Fisher’s proposal for an alternative compensation system for digital media. Those at iLaw 2005 will have it well in mind, as will anyone who has read Chapter 6 of Prof. Fisher’s book, Promises to Keep.
… is ongoing now, while many laptops are trained to this page. He is talking Napster and Grokster. Tension mounts. (Now watch it be Monday!)