is the speed with which Gator took down this page, as pointed out by Declan McCullagh in his story on Ben’s research report.

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Off to a roaring start, as usual.  Ben, a Student Fellow here, offers a glimpse into the workings of Gator.  We’re focused on how the Web can be more transparent, which Ben is quite good at exposing. Donna Wentworth has more.

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I had written to my State Representative, Patricia Jehlen, a short while ago about HR 2743 in Massachusetts, our version of the S-DMCA.  She writes back what I take to be good news: “Apparently everyone realizes it is too broadly drafted … and is unlikely to move further in the process. You are among the…

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I’m puzzling over the New York Times article on google and Jim Moore’s Second Superpower paper in this morning’s Week in Review.  Jim’s very short paper, with no footnotes and little more than an intriguing idea in its first-cut articulation, clearly grabbed the attention of the online world for a time.  And google rewarded it with a high…

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I’ve thought that iTunes is really quite a cool effort by Apple, to be honest.  The New York Post has a piece today on the iTunes “hack“.  And the whole is-this-webcasting thing, discussed nicely by Derek (who says “not at risk”), who’s also got some good comments to his post about why iTunes has an…

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In the online debate about citizen bloggers, journalists and the NH primary, Dave Winer has posted his reply to MSNBC‘s Jon Bonne. Also: it’s true: Dave Winer will be with us at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School for another year.  Resident fellows at the Berkman Center usually stay for only one academic year, but we’re…

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Our incredibly unscientific and tiny survey of H2O users asked whether people thought that Blogs are: Frivolous: 7% The Future of the Net: 57% A Supernova: 36%.

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I received the following idea via e-mail from Douglas Arndt following my MPR appearance the other day, talking spam. “Perhaps I’m missing something, but SPAM seems to be a very easy to solve problem.  It would be solved in two simple steps. 1) Individual SMTP server owners would change thier server to “authenticate” the sending and…

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This has Chris Lydon‘s name all over it. The difference is, he’d make take up it a level, do for audio blogs what he’s done for talk radio: make it smart, make it sing, make it always interesting.

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A very intriguing comment from Dan Bricklin on the Blogs at Harvard Law home page, noting that not a) not all bloggers are created equally and b) that bloggers may have some key natural advantages in covering a primary than ordinary reporters would: “Politicians will be more open to real voters debating them than a reporter who must…

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To talk spam: 1-800-242-2828.  11:30 – 12:00 noon, EST.

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I’m about to go on MPR to talk for an hour (11:00 – 12:00 EST) regarding spam.  I’m mostly interested in Larry Lessig’s proposal (now Rep. Lofgren’s proposal, in part); the Sen. Schumer proposal; why people are interested in spam so seriously all of a sudden; and how private sheriffs, one of Jonathan Zittrain’s research…

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