Jim, what exactly would you have us do, a la Joi Ito?  I’m certain it’s brilliant, but I’m not sure I get it yet. I suspect the answer to my question is somewhere in here, which is packed with good things about RSS and telepresence and Lessig and Benkler.

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It’s the it-issue of the moment, and Dave has a great essay on advice to campaign staffers about what to do about blogs in this election cycle.  With my former campaign manager hat on, I’ll vouch for the fact that 1) campaign teams should at least consider these ideas, and fast; and 2) that we’ve wondered for a long…

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This semester, I’m teaching a class at Harvard Law School entitled “Cyberlaw and the Global Economy,” and I’m going to invite my students to use weblogs as a means of class participation.  The idea is to put online participation through writing to blogs on par, or close to par, with in-class participation.  I expect that some…

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Both Jonathan Zittrain and I were interviewed for and cited in an article running in the Economist about computer viruses and liability, among other things.  JZ is cited as saying that he thinks it’s unlikely that large software developers will be sued for buggy code that lets through viruses, in large measure because it could bankrupt a…

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Via Jon Bonne, a story from Editor & Publisher on the merits of RSS as e-mail lurches from crisis to crisis.

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I am extremely pleased to see that Prof. Michael Watkins of the Harvard Business School has begun a weblog on the Harvard blogs server.  He plans to comment on “world events on weekdays” — a very sound policy and a great topic for blogging.  This university revolves around its faculty, in many respects, and having faculty willing…

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Prof. Lessig’s got a very interesting quote, courtesy of Glenn Brown, from back when the recording industry, back in 1967, was trying to *retain* a compulsory licensing system.  Cf. Terry Fisher’s draft chapter 6, “An Alternative Compensation System.”

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He gets the story just right.  I admit that I was secretly pleased to see a new posting in August to Copyfight despite the fact that Donna’s supposed to have some time off between Berkman and EFF!

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Check out the terms of use section in Yahoo!’s announcement of its new RSS 2.0 feeds (which, as a general matter, is terrific news).  They effectively grant to individuals and non-profits a license “for personal, non-commercial uses” and “ask that you provide attribution to Yahoo! News…”  They also reserve “the right to require you to cease distributing…

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The spam problem has reached epic proportions.  Check out the many comments to this post.  Spam fixing should move nearer to the top of the agenda, if it’s not there already. I’m about to go to challenge/response, too, I fear.

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Adina Levin: “What’s happening is related to the boom vision of ‘Internet push’ technology, yet very different.”  Nice analysis, plus some French on Wiki in the previous post.

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I’ve been in Budapest, Hungary, for the past few days, as part of a programme for ICT policy types from Eastern Europe, Africa and Mongolia, courtesy of the Soros Foundation’s Open Society Institute, the Markle Foundation, and the Stanhope Centre.  It’s quite a collection of activists, lawyers, technologists and others who are working to promote ICTs…

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