. . . looks like a good event.
April 2009
Like Berin, I tend to think a lot of anti-Google hysteria is over the top. But I think one place where some criticism is warranted is over the impending Google Book Search settlement. Reader Andrew W points us to his recent post on the Google Book Search settlement: Google does not somehow become the exclusive [...]
Leave it to the English—famous for their superior fluency in the language that bears their name—to reach unparalleled heights of hysteria in the war of words being waged against Google. The Guardian’s Henry Porter claims that “Google is just an amoral menace: The ever-growing empire produces nothing but seems determined to control everything.” Porter declares [...]
This week, a federal judge blocked a prosecutor from filing child pornography charges against three teenage girls in northeastern Pennsylvania over risque cell phone pictures they took of themselves. This respite from the bizarre “sexting” scandal allows time for a national dialogue on an issue that goes deeper than simple changes in technology. “Sexting” is [...]
Usually we hear that the Internet has created overabundance — an overload of information, communications, choices, all within easy grasp of a single mouse click. So it came as a bit of a surprise when I read yesterday’s New York Times article about event tickets, and how the Internet is making it harder — not [...]
There’s a great article in Online Media Daily that sums up all the reasons why New Jersey should not pass proposed legislation that requires social networking websites to be liable for abusive and harassing communications occurring on their sites. A3757 was introduced this session and is part of a package of Internet safety legislation put [...]
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