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Saturday May 26, 2007

E.U. Probes Google Over Data Retention Policy - New York Times

Can Google's practices be reconciled with European law?
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 7:58 AM permalink

PrawfsBlawg: Whose Slide Is It, Anyway?

How the Electric Slide case illustrates the different mindsets of lawyers and geeks.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 7:51 AM permalink
Monday May 14, 2007

PrawfsBlawg: Pragmatic Practice in Law and Programming

James Grimmelmann on theory vs. practice in law and computer science.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 4:17 PM permalink
Thursday May 10, 2007

California Secretary of State - Voting Systems Review

Information on California's "top-to-bottom review" of voting machines.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 7:50 AM permalink

Exporting I.P.: The New Yorker

James Surowiecki criticizes the recent U.S. practice of using free trade agreements to force trading partners to expand their IP laws.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 7:40 AM permalink
Wednesday May 9, 2007

USACM Technology Policy Weblog: USACM Urges Revisions to REAL ID Rules

Useful comments on the Real ID process, from the tech experts.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 5:14 PM permalink

USACM Technology Policy Weblog: E-Voting Reform Clears House Committee; ACM Applauds Congressional Attention

House committee passes Holt e-voting bill.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 5:13 PM permalink
Saturday May 5, 2007

The Long Tail: The Awesome Power of Spare Cycles

Lots of time goes to waste -- the dark matter of our lives. Anderson argues that Web 2.0 succeeds by harvesting this dark matter.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 7:16 AM permalink
Friday May 4, 2007

QubeTV set as YouTube alternative - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

A conversative version of YouTube. Not clear why this is needed -- what's stopping conservatives from just using YouTube?
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 8:05 AM permalink
Wednesday May 2, 2007

Threat Level - Who Killed Cryptome?

Nice bit on the impending shutdown of Cryptome. Explains the role Cryptome plays in the information ecosystem.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 5:41 AM permalink
Tuesday May 1, 2007

News Media Flux Hinges on Advertisers %u2014 AMERICAN.COM: A Magazine of Ideas, Online

David Robinson on the decline of big, general-interest newspapers and magazines.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 10:51 AM permalink
Monday April 23, 2007

Audit Finds Many Faults in Cleveland's '06 Voting - New York Times

Yet another negative report about recent Cleveland elections.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 8:05 AM permalink
Wednesday April 18, 2007

Satellite Sisters: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker

Nice, accessible little piece on the XM/Sirius merger.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 10:33 AM permalink
Tuesday April 17, 2007

Computer Science Takes Steps to Bring Women to the Fold - New York Times

NYT piece on efforts to bring more women students into Computer Science.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 8:59 AM permalink
Tuesday April 10, 2007

The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel

If this were real, I'd be a happy guy.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 4:39 PM permalink
Friday April 6, 2007

Seed: Scientific Method: Relationships Among Scientific Paradigms

Graphical map showing connections between different scientific fields, based on citations. Note the bridging role played by computer science.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 11:34 AM permalink

GigaOM: Iminlikewithyou: Love in the time of Facebook

These guys are either fools or evil geniuses.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 10:22 AM permalink
Thursday April 5, 2007

The iPhone wannabes. - By Paul Boutin - Slate Magazine

Nice piece on what smartphones could be, but aren't.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 10:01 AM permalink
Monday March 19, 2007

Obama ad hints at things to come in cyberpolitics

Anonymous creator makes striking Obama ad, based on Apple's old 1984 ad.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 1:07 PM permalink
Sunday March 18, 2007

Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: You <i>Do</i> Like Reading Off a Computer Screen

Cory explains how computers are changing (not replacing) reading.
Posted by Edward W. Felten at 12:26 PM permalink
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