Better late than never (but only just)
My luggage finally arrived, almost two days later than originally scheduled. As I alluded to earlier this week, I arrived on Sunday night (later than expected) without my bag. It had gone through customs in Toronto (they make you retrieve it, bring it through and drop back on a different belt) but the [...]
Quest for the Perfect Dissertation
Michael Zimmer has been talking this afternoon about The Quest for the Perfect Search Engine: Values, Technical Design, and the Flow of Personal Information in Spheres of Mobility - otherwise known as his recently completed dissertation. Michael started off with a quick gallop through the theoretical background and the major figures (Williams, Innis, Postman [...]
Internet Filtering
This morning, we’re talking about Internet Filtering and the Open Net Initiative.
If you’re interested in more on this topic, here’s my live-blogging on the one-day filtering conference (which drew upon the same research, and had some of the same speaker!); the ONI website is great (the maps made a star appearance today).
Each participant has to [...]
A victory for privacy?
Google has said that its cookies, tiny files stored on a computer when a user visits a website, will auto delete after two years.
BBC News
Peter Fleischer, Google’s global privacy counsel, said in a statement: “After listening to feedback from our users and from privacy advocates, we’ve concluded that it would be a good thing for [...]
Two new perspectives on speech and regulation
By coincidence, these two abstracts landed on SSRN (crack for researchers) about the same time:
1. “Media Ownership Regulation, the First Amendment, and Democracy’s Future” (Adam Candeub)
Hammering the FCC for its model of driving “the antitrust law for the marketplace of ideas” (Candeub’s own expression - reproduced here because it is a useful phrase and is [...]