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October 2008
- Financial Failures Spark Phishing Expeditions, and Other CyberSecurity Issues at upcoming NetChoice Event
- Does This Really Surprise Anyone?
- Bandwidth prices fall sharply
- book review: Palfrey & Gasser's "Born Digital"
- Negroponte's "Daily Me" = RSS Feeds + Google Alerts
- Well, Isn't This Cheery
- Space Politics
- Esbin's Early History of the Net Neutrality Debate in U.S.
- Sergey Brin and Inequality
- 10 Years Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Success or Failure?
- Hank Paulson's Phishing Scheme
- What Is This Drawing About?
- A Little Google/Math Humor
- Smart as Paint
- Cutting the (Video) Cord: The Shift to Online Video Continues
- Jenkins on new Pew report about "Teens, Video Games, and Civics"
- two CDT essays about child safety & free speech
- Cool SpaceX Video
- A Rogue's Gallery . . .
- DTV Transition Humor
- Bandwidth Cap Hysteria & the Alternative
- Network Theory Can Explain US Credit Crunch
- The List of Votes on the Financial Services Bailout
- Liberals Abandoning the First Amendment, Part 4: Banning Books in Virginia
- NYT Live-Blogging Bailout Debate - Barney Frank Warns of Socialism!
- Security
- What Was the Gore Commission on Digital Television Broadcasting All About?
- One Big Project
- History of DRM; IIPI Event Reviewed
- ASTRA Urges U.S. House Members to Support Economic Recovery Bill
- Senate passes "Child Safe Viewing Act" (S. 602)
- Do TV Broadcasters Have Obligations to the Public? Forum TOMORROW, 10/3
- All Kinds of Competition for Google Is in Development
- Mashable Looks Into the Bailout
- Shake-up
- "A Manifesto for Media Freedom" -- my new book with Brian Anderson
September 2008
- "Feds and Internet Service Providers Don't Mix"
- Me around the Web
- Of Curves and Chaos
- Intellectual Property Laws and Government Security Threaten Science and Knowledge
- Digital lies & the future of America
- Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark to Speak at Google in DC October 3
- Throwing a "TARP" Over Economic Reality? No. No Bailout.
- Problems in Muni Wi-fi Paradise, Part 9 (amazing article about Philly failure)
- More 419 Baiting
- Two great podcasts
- Celebrating 51 Years of the Space Age: Sputnik's Launch
- The Great 'Open v. Closed' Debate Continues: Google Phone v. Apple iPhone
- Forget BPL - It's PBL that's the upcoming thing!
- Many Eyes
- California Telecom Regulator Rachelle Chong, Former FCC Commissioner, to Keynote 'Broadband Census for America'
- Age Verification Debate Continues; Schools Now at Center of Discussion
- "Bailout" Podcasts
- The Safety Chase: Berkman Center’s Public Meeting of the Internet Safety Task Force
- A Handy Guide to Computing Privacy Online & Offline
- Why Calling Google a Monopoly is Silly
- Online Advertising & User Privacy: Principles to Guide the Debate
- Comcast v. FCC: Now what?
- Good CBN Story on Surveillance Cameras
- Jones Day Lawyers Apparently Don't Know the Law
- Go to Jail for Online Anonymity: The End of Internet Freedom?
- Veoh Considered
- Problems in Muni Wi-fi Paradise, Part 8 (Boynton Beach, FL)
- another review of Zittrain's "Future of the Internet"
- The 'D' Word?
- Broadband Prices Drop
- Wedding Phtography and Copyright Release
- Advising Google on Antitrust
- Palin Hackers Face Jail Time
- PFF filing in FCC product placement / embedded advertising inquiry
- Lost Laptop Follies, Part 8: ATF Loses Laptops... and Guns!
- Taxpayer Patent Extortion
- "Buzz Out Loud" Wrong on AT&T
- Cory Doctorow on the Bureacrash Podcrash
- Version 3.1 release: "Parental Controls & Online Child Protection"
- John McCain Invented the Blackberry?
- "Bigger than Jesus"
- Women Play Video Games?
- Confronting Your Accuser
- Tech-related Lolcats
- Suppressing Terrorism Videos Does No Good
- Africa BarCamp
- Suborbital Personal Spaceflight About to Take Off
- Still Cloudy on Cloud Computing: A Matrix to Guide the Coming Policy Debates
- A Major Milestone for Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP)
- Porn on Planes (continued)
- Why Google won’t do evil
- U.N. Attacks Internet Anonymity - VeriSign Lending a Hand?
- Googlephobia: Part 5 - Google at Ten & Its Competition
- DoJ Trustbusters to Attack Google?
- Google Suggest = Keystroke Logger
- Forget Duopoly - Fear the Quadropoly!
- Consensus FCC Reforms for the Next President
- Tim Wu on Obama, McCain, and "a Chicken in Every Pot"
- The Candidates' Actual Legislative Priorities
- "'Local' is just one set of ripples on the lake of information"
- Googlephobia: The Series
- Dead Air Walking: Prisoners Face Loss of TV After Digital Transition
- Software and a Digression
- Aliens Love Firefox Too!
- Grouping Recent Net Books: Internet Optimists vs. Pessimists
- Free Press: Internet Too Important to Tie Up in Legal Limbo
- EULA Meta = Markets
- Comcast to FCC: We're not gonna take it
- Market Forces At Work: The PR Backlash Against Google Chrome's EULA
- Privacy Solutions Series: Part 2 - Adblock Plus
- The Cablevision Case and Others
- DVRs Becoming an "Indispensable" Household Item
- CITP Visiting Scholars
- Summary of Martin's 'War on Cable'
- Of "Cartels" and Price Wars
- Opposing Viewpoints on Network Neutrality
- Chrome Dodges Antitrust, Could Be Future OS
- Peering and Transit at Ars
- Privacy Solutions Series: Part 1 - Introduction
- Google Chrome & the Coming Antitrust Suits
- "The Net Regards _______ As Failure, and Routes Around It"
- The End of "the American Internet" and the Future of Content Controls
August 2008
- Bandwidth Cap Worries
- Another 4 months, still no FCC Video Competition Report
- How I Spent My Summer Vacation
- Winners and Losers
- Is the Public Interest Standard Really a Standard?
- TSA: Not Even Good at Getting it Wrong
- Fear "the MEGA"!
- Trademarks as Symbolic Links
- Safe Search Tools & Portals for Kids - The List Keeps Growing
- Porn on Planes: 3 Possible Solutions
- Almost makes me want to buy an iPhone...
- The Patent System is a Hashtable without a Hash Function
- Van Lindberg on "Intellectual Property"
- Ubiquity for Firefox = Best App of the Year
- And the "Luddite of the Year" Award Goes to...
- Still More xkcd
- Biden on Tech Policy
- An Unnatural Modern Fascination with Murder and Celebrities?
- TLF Ads
- Former FCC Chairman: Comcast Action Legality "Murky"
- About Political Ads on the TLF
- The FCC's Comcast/Net Neutrality Order & Commissioner McDowell's Dissent
- Network Neutrality Exaggeration
- Obama vs McCain: Who deserves the tech vote?
- DMCA takedown notices should take fair use into consideration
- Government Cybersecurity
- Getting Back From Aspen
- In Defense of Internet Triumphalism
- BroadbandCensus.com Joins with One Web Day: Learn About Your Internet Options and Take the Census
- What Do We Think of "Deep Packet Inspection"?
- Too Much Platform Competition?
- PFF Aspen Summit: An Important Premise Unexplored?
- First!
- How much do we really care about protecting our personal information?
- A New "Federal Cultural and Social Regulatory Agency"?
- More on M2Z / AWS spectrum fight
- Julian Joins Ars Technica
- The Wrong Way to Make Local Broadcasting Relevant Again
- E-voting
- More on the super awesome commenting system
- McCain's Tech Policy a Mixed Bag at Best
- New TLF Comment Tool (Please Read!)
- John McCain's Tech Policy Unveiled Today
- A Boon for Copyright's Biggest Holders?
- Please excuse our dust
- Blogger Freedom Re-Affirmed by FEC
- Rasmussen: Fairness Doctrine Supported by Nearly Half of all Americans
- The First Sale Doctrine and Copyleft
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 23): Cox Selling Most of its Newspapers
- Free Broadband Now! . . . and a Pony
- Alcohol Liberation 6: Denver or Bust
- FCC's McDowell on Fairness and Neutrality
- FCC v. Fox Television: All the Supreme Court briefs are in
- Download and Be "Green"
- Get Ready for Internet Advertising Regulation "for the Children"
- Why Google Is a Media Company
- Enough anti-iPhone rants... just get another phone!
- FiOS coming soon to DC?
- e-Passports are Insecure
- What the Media Reformistas Really Want
- ACT to Come Out against DMCA and Software Patents?
- I would send my kids to this summer camp...
- Paper or Plastic?
- Another muni wi-fi failure (Portland), and taxpayers will pick up the tab
- FCC Killing BitTorrent? Not Exactly
- Regulatory Models that Promote and Prevent Business Models (Or, Don't *Only* Believe the Public Interest Hype!)
- Russian Astro-spam?
- FCC's Comcast decision was political failure
- A Debate About Data Confidentiality and the Forthcoming ‘Broadband Census for America’
- Dish Network ponders merger with DirecTV
- Anti-Spam Laws and the First Amendment
- Day 505: The XM-Sirius Circus Is Finally Over
- Clear Apologizes
- CDT-PFF Supreme Court Brief in FCC v. Fox Case
- Plaxo's Social Networking "Bill of Rights"
- Regulate the Internet? FCC.gov Has It Right
- John McCain asks a question on LinkedIn
- TPW 37: The Comcast Kerfuffle 2: The Chairman Strikes Back
- Regulation begets Regulation
- Accountability Now Money-Bomb August 8th
- True Cost of Video Game Censorship (continued)
- FCC's DRM ban may derail distribution of new-release films on cable TV
- Easing China's Transition to - Nationalism?
- Broadband access platforms & speeds over 3 decades
- Confederates in my Hard Drive
- Cerf on managing networks & the need for industry discussion
- Google's Got Plenty of Compute Cycles
- 10,000 Bills in Congress, and the Annual Spending Process Ignored
- Why I'm Not a Copyright Pessimist
- A Belated Critique of Jerry's Commons Paper
- A Copyright Giant Gives Up in Disgust
- Just What Are the Facts?
- FCC Hammers Comcast For Deception and Unreasonable Internet Practices
- Bandwidth Cartels, Public and Private
- From the FCC, DrewClark.com is Live...
- If Bandwidth Is Abundant, It Can't Be Scarce, So Why Can't We Have Net Neutrality?
- Under-Appreciated Existing Legal Remedies for Trolling, Defamation and Other "Malwebolent" Invasions of Privacy
- Game, Set, and Match: Martin!
July 2008
- Hijacking the Internet
- Radio Propagation and Frequency
- Excellent discussion on broadband metering
- Bill and Keep and the Free Market
- Network Neutrality Is Not About Price
- Should it be illegal to text or talk while walking down the road?
- Customer-Owned Fiber
- Tim Wu's "Absurd" Op-ed
- Wu's Many Mistaken Metaphors
- Tim Wu's "Mother-May-I" World of Net Neutrality Regulation
- The Future of Event Ticket Reselling: Price Caps, Taxes and Venue Control
- What Mike Said
- Product Placement in Historical Context
- NPR spot on Third Circuit decision in Janet Jackson case
- Cuil's Incredible Privacy Policy
- Tarring and Feathering Comcast
- McDowell: Collaboration Over Regulation
- Jeers and Cheers for Prof. Duffy
- Can Congress tweet? Should bloggers care?
- Joint FCC Filing on Internet Filtering Plan for AWS-3 Spectrum
- Nice to Be Wanted
- There's Plenty of Competition in Search and Plenty of Interest
- Australian ISP-Level Content Filtering Report Released
- Telecom and Transportation Should Be Focus of Infrastructure Investments, Says Think Tank
- Skype Back Door?
- RIP Randy Pausch
- "Reforming Fourth Amendment Privacy Doctrine"
- The Cost of Regulation
- Internet Habits and the Presidency
- Google Search Won't Return Links to cato-at-liberty.org
- Google and Comcast, sitting in a tree...
- The "Coburn Omnibus"
- COPA Falls Again; Is Historic 3rd Trip to Supremes Coming?
- "What Matters is Freedom"
- The NY AG's Anti-Free-Speech Shakedown Racket
- World of World of Warcraft
- e-gold Settles Criminal Charges, Goes Back to Work
- It's Never Been More Clear
- Local Web Ads and the Future of Newspapers
- 2008 edition of "Essential Facts about Video Games" is out
- "Scientific" Media Ratings & Labels: What Exactly Does That Mean?
- Comcast resists pressure to drop Usenet access
- Viacom Lawsuit Against YouTube Still Useless
- Me, Media Whore
- 3rd Circuit ruling against FCC in Janet Jackson case
- The Day the Music (Was Scheduled to) Die
- Google Dilemma
- Primer on Mobile TV Market
- Some Shameless iPhone Gushing
- The medium is not the message
- Felten on The Decline of Localist Broadcasting Policies
- Why I love MythBusters...
- It's Tough Being a Rock Star
- Best Albums Since Your Birth
- CWA Wants Better Broadband Data, As Does Internet for Everyone
- Goodies on the WashingtonWatch.com Blog
- Dear Gov. Patterson... Regarding that Video Game Bill You Are About to Sign
- PFF Database Cleared by StopBadware.org & Put Back Online
- Will Stirs the High-Skilled Hornets Nest
- Newspaper Deathwatch?
- Silly Government Policies Do Eventually Go Away
- On Google-Yahoo! as an Antitrust Problem
- Patent Failure Review
- Want Better Broadband in America? Take the Broadband Census! (Commentary)
- Memo to Congress: We can handle new media
- DownsizeDC Ramps Up
- Our First Net Neutrality Law: Congrats to our Big Gov't Opponents
- Declan on Google-Microsoft Antitrust Shenanigans
- A Tale of Two Agency Cultures
- Is Open Government Anti-Corporate?
- PC Game Software Sales Actually Growing
- Media Metrics: The Report
- Is Piracy Killing PC Gaming?
- James Harper Exposed
- "Cry [Censorship] and Let Slip the Dogs of [Regulation]!" - A Lesson in the Dangers of Googlephobia
- The Next Great Technopanic: Wireless Geo-Location / Social Mapping
- Whatever Martin says, the FCC's 'Internet Policy Statement' is not enforceable
- A La Carte Regulation and the Failure of Good Intentions
- FISA Wrap-up Podcast
- The FISA Bill Was Not Progress
- iPhone 2.0 cracked in hours... what was that Zittrain thesis again?
- The Image Says it All
- National Rules for a Global Ad Market
- Making Things Harder on the Heroes
- Oversight by Magic?
- No Fireworks at Today's Online Ads Hearing
- Technopanics and the Great Social Networking Scare
- "Accountability Now" Plans Aug. 8 Money Bomb
- No YouTube for Congress
- Me on FISA on KMOX
- Great Moments in Government Accountability
- Google vs. Google
- The FBI and Politics
- Social Media Slide Show
- Digital Transition Hysteria
- Our Continued Wishful Thinking about "Media Localism"
- The More Things Change...
- "J. Edgar Google"
- Evolving Theory of Network Effects
- Wood in Popular Culture
- Liberals Abandoning the First Amendment, Part 3: The Fox Case
- Putting Politicians First?
- More on Randy Vanderhoof and Privacy
- GOOGLE FAKES COMPLIANCE WITH PRIVACY LAW. OBSCURE BLOGGER DEMANDS INVESTIGATION. DEVELOPING . . .
- Obama Foundering on Telecom Immunity
- WashingtonWatch.com Blog Debuts
- Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Viewer Records
- Two Declarations of Independence
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 6 (Further reading)
- A Real Grassroots Campaign
- Meta (+ It's Friday and You're Not Reading Anyway)
- Showdown in Kansas City
- Nobel Laureates against Software Patents
- FISA Warrants vs. Criminal Warrants
- Broadband Internet Adoption Stalls, Regresses for Poor, Says Pew Report
- Physician, Heal Thyself
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 5 (CDT-PFF joint editorial)
- The Incoherent Singularity
- Cato Annual Report
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 4 (Pervasiveness is Moot)
- Understanding The True Cost of Video Game Censorship Efforts
- Polycentric Patent Law
June 2008
- Copyright Industrial Policy
- Patent Sharks
- Save the Orphan (Works)
- Another muni wi-fi failure (Oakland Wireless)
- Things to Ban While Driving
- Cerf: Nationalize the Internet?
- Genomics Meets Sacramento
- Obama on the Anti-Fairness Doctrine Bandwagon?
- The 'Contradictory Ideals' of Internet for Everyone campaign
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 3 (Pacifica's Pretzel Logic)
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 2 (Brief History of Indecency Enforcement)
- Worst Technology Journalism of 2008 - First in a Series
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 1 (General Overview)
- Fairness Doctrine Debate: Less and More than Meets the Eye
- Small Business Hearing on Internet Ads
- Best (Government) Job Ever
- New Biography of Georges Doriot, Founding Father of Venture Capital
- Confusing Fact and Fiction at Techdirt
- Not One, Not Two, but THREE Competing Open Source Mobile Operating Systems
- Neanderthal Philosophy
- Did Contributions Buy Telecom Immunity Votes in the House?
- Well, Not Actually for Everyone . . .
- Floridians' Tax Dollars at Work Fighting Smut
- Let's See How Well Peer Production Works
- Family Security Matters: REAL ID = National ID
- Drew Bennett Blogging as Special Correspondent for BroadbandCensus.com
- TSA Background Check Includes Political Party
- Regulators to Save Us from Loud TV Ads and Product Placements
- If a Trend Can't Continue, It Won't Continue
- CWA Blog Claims Credit for FCC Data Order, But Ignores Local Company Data
- Alcohol Liberation Front 5.1: Scoble's Tech Happy Hour in DC Wednesday, June 25
- The EFF Campaign Against Telecom Company Immunity
- Will Bandwidth Demands ‘Break’ the Internet? Yea or Nay, We Need Independent Monitoring
- Retention Marketing: Bad Call at the FCC
- Lessig, Obama, and Grassroots Political Strategy
- Senate Housing Bill to Require Collecting of Online Payment Information
- FISA Capitulation: Bad Policy, Bad Politics
- Air-Headed E-Voting Advocacy
- The Winback Wars, Round Two: Verizon v. NCTA
- GAO Issues Report on Privacy
- Paperless Tickets - Not so Convenient
- TCS Daily on Regulatory Policy
- Rush Holt on FISA
- Goose, Gander, Sauce, Etc.
- "Strange" Bedfellows
- Sigh...
- Google Endorses Speed-based Prioritization - What About Net Neutrality?
- FISA Doesn't Expire
- Reed Hundt versus Michael Powell--Observations
- Kozinski on Copyright
- Google to Offer Broadband Users Tools to Monitor ISP Traffic Management
- Online Sellers Shouldn't Be Liable for the Stolen Goods Sold on Their Sites
- Internet growth: Fast or faster?
- XM-Sirius, regulatory blackmail, and diversity
- Dumb and Dumberer?
- Trade War
- ACLU Off Course
- Nuclear Plans and Privacy
- Rigid federal mandates hinder privacy technologies
- Cato Unbound: Towards a Copyriot Act
- John Calfee on Government-Sponsored Innovation
- FCC Releases Broadband Data Order For Census-Tract Data
- Reporting from Broadband Policy Summit at BroadbandCensus.com
- The Kozinski Kerfuffle: Dueling Privacy Analogies
- Intel Antitrust: Trouble for All Tech Companies
- Social media and collective action
- Against Google/Yahoo! - I'm not Buying It
- Cellphone Hoax Popped
- Masnick on the Future of Copyright
- Our Exceptional First Amendment
- Abuse of Power? Competition Commissioner that Pushes "Smart Business Decisions"
- Tim Lee Capitulates to NY Attorney General; Ceases Posting Golden Girls Porn to Usenet Group
- AZ Legislature: No to REAL ID
- Cell Phone Contracts & Contradictions
- Copyright Podcast
- Victory for the First Sale Doctrine
- Meyerson on Zell: The Idiocy of Equating Media Reinvention to Terrorism
- New York AG pressures ISPs to cut off Usenet access
- Internet Safety - Good Approach and Bad Approach
- Sovereign Wealth Funds - Nothing to See Here, Move On
- Ending The War on File Sharing Doesn't Mean the End of Copyright
- Michael Powell and Reed Hundt Find Their Inner Politico
- Exclusive Handset Prohibitions: Should the FCC Kill the Goose that Laid the Golden iPhone?
- File-sharing at Cato Unbound
- The Future of News
- Seasteading
- Google CEO Says the Future Belongs to ‘Cloud Computing’
- ID Checks are About Control, Not Security
- Zuneral
- FCC targets long-term service plans
- Media Reform Now About Internet, Not Broadcast Ownership, says Free Press
- Orin Kerr: Not an Empty Vessel and Not Responsive to my Point
- What's Worse Than Rigged Auctions & Internet Censorship? How About Both in One Package!
- Sirius-XM: Day 445
- Swire on Cybercrime Underenforcement
- Cuban on bandwidth hogs and tiered broadband
- A "Technology Sabbath" to Alleviate Info Overload?
- Libertarians for Patent Trolling
- Overstock Sues to Overturn Overreaching New York Sales Tax Law
- Profiles in Innovation
- Yes, I'm Secretly 12 Years Old
- Registered Capture
- Debugging the Pledge of Allegiance
- Google, California's Privacy Policy Law & Our Sci-Fi Future
- Freedom is Diversity
- Carriers Begin Metering Bandwidth… BroadbandCensus.com Will Be Measuring It!
- Welcoming Berin Szoka to the TLF
- Should Google Link to Its Privacy Policy From Its Homepage?
- CEO: Microsoft-Yahoo Will Bring Competition to Media Business
- Metering Bandwidth and Stopping Fraud
- Spectrum and the Specter of Central Planning
- The DMCA's Safe Harbor Applies to Websites
- Imagine There's No Fair Use
- Princeton Paper on Government Transparency
- Digital Inclusion About More Than Connectivity, Says One Economy CEO
May 2008
- Check Out Melissa Ngo and "Privacy Lives"
- Kerr Defends the Third-Party Doctrine
- FCC Localism Rules: A “Tax on Blackness”?
- This Account is Suspended
- Viacom sues YouTube for $1Billion, but then what?
- Google, the NAB, and a Third Way in ‘White Spaces’ Debate
- Is There an Openness-Bandwidth Trade-off?
- Hitting the Reset Button after an Info-Free Vacation
- Interviews
- Pirate Radio
- Wiki-gov, special interests, and wiki-regs
- Guest-Blogging at the Atlantic
- UK Libertarian Party: My 'Car Crash'
- Autodesk vs. the First Sale Doctrine
- Overstock.com Pulls its New York Ads to Avoid Expanded (and likely Unconstitutional) Sales Tax
- Odds and Ends of Research--Mostly Odds
- Analysis of Potential Google-Yahoo! Transaction
- Headline Writers' Lacking Literary Knowledge
- What Will They Think of Next?
- Defining 'Anticompetitive'
- Autodesk Smackdown
- What is ConnectKentucky exactly?
- Tunneling your way around ISP traffic manipulation
- Cellphones, Freedom and the Cuban Embargo
- Fun with Headlines
- Build a Better Mousetrap
- The ACLU and Media Hysteria
- This Is Getting Out of Hand
- Let There Be Light
- Reversing the Course of a River
- Lessig's orphan works proposal still unworkable
- Copyrights, Patents, and Trade
- Everiss on Kids, Government, and Grand Theft Auto
- Network Neutrality Podcast
- Peer-to-Patent Video
- Building Exits into CFTC Regulation
- Video Game Platform Competition
- Why Are Some Muni WiFi Experiments Failing?
- Does Money Ruin Everything?
- Don't Bother to "LifeLock" Yourself
- Wireless Substitution: Some New CDC Numbers
- "The Most Powerful Computer Ever"
- The Rise & Inevitable Fall of Tech Giants
- How Net Neutrality Could Sabotage Healthcare Tech
- Who's Best at Lobbying 2.0?
- No More Intellectual Giants?
- Navel-Gazing
- The Pirate's Dilemma
- In Re Bilski
- Tom Lee on Software Patents
- Felten on the Future of News
- Where is the FCC's Annual Video Competition Report?
- Culture Clash on the Future of News
- Forbes on "Making Social [Networking] Sites Safer"
- Future of News
- Math You Can't Use
- From Indep Women's Forum--Update on Rights
- Future of News
- my debate with Zittrain on NPR-Boston
- Selling out Online Advertising
- New York's Ambitious Sales Tax Law -- Broader than Amazon and the Internet?
- L-1: The Technology Company in Your Pocket
- Some people are never happy
- Missing Emails at Ars
- Will they age-verify the Pope?
- REAL ID Deadline Passes - Zero Compliance
- Intrinsic Motivation and Free Software
- Turning the Page on Newspaper Ownership Rules: New Paper from Heritage
- sensible thinking on TV sports contracts
- latest FTC "secret shopper" survey shows improving ratings enforcement
- Intellectual Ventures: A Reductio of the Patent System
- Comcast to move to bandwidth cap / metering solution?
- need help... How many blogs are there out there?
- Larry Magid on Age Verification
- More on the OECD Broadband Report
- embedded Scribd presentations... just awesome
- Free Software vs. the Tax Man
- Tracking Your Race and Your Politics
- Fair Trade: Does it Work
- Shape of Libertarian IP Debate: Moebius Strip
- OECD vs. SpeedTest
- Virginia points the way on Internet safety
- Obama on Grand Theft Auto and personal responsibility
- When gamers go mainstream
- What's pointless about fun?
- Floppy disk humor
- Ideology
- The Singing Revolution - Held Over Another Week
- Substance, Procedure, Enforcement... Offspring
- Patents and the Poor--Notes from Abroad
- Upcoming Event: See South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford Make Sense of the REAL ID Act
- End-to-end and the Price Mechanism
- Insulting Our Intelligence
- Are the threats to online free speech real?
April 2008
- On The Shape of the Libertarian "IP" Debate
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 22): TW spin-off of cable unit
- Yale / CFP's "9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration"
- Larry Lessig, Demagogue?
- Thoughts on Apple, MBA's, and Distribution
- George W. Bush's Lost Emails
- Selective Quotation in the Sydnor Paper
- Do video games create cop killers?
- Free Culture and Libertarianism, Again
- Headline of the Day
- Amateurs Study Cryptography; Professionals Study Economics
- Why both the Left & Right love media regulation
- Racist Shorts and Fair Use
- Grand Theft Auto: Masterpiece or Abomination?
- Insurance and Health Care
- Is the Patriot Act the Harbinger of a Police State?
- Devastating Ubuntu Review
- Do Not Track Registry Likely to Include Exemptions
- Tragedy of the Spectrum Commons?
- New orphan works bills introduced
- The History of Trade and Copyright
- Story on State Secrets in the Senate
- Manjoo on "Grand Theft Auto 4" hysteria
- More Broadband Progress
- Law Isn't Really "Law" Either
- Code, Law, and Spontaneous Order
- The Challenge of Architectural Changes
- ‘We’d Have Nothing To Do!’
- review: Dr. Kourosh Dini's "Video Game Play & Addiction"
- Settling Accounts, Part 2
- A Bill of Rights to enshrine Net Neutrality?
- Localism is the new Fairness Doctrine
- Internet Futurama: Hollywood Writers, Little Presidents, and Neutrality Regulation
- Students, Cyber-Bullying, & Online Free Speech
- NCSL Calls for Repeal of REAL ID
- Bruce Everiss on video game piracy
- Britannica Blog's excellent "Newspapers & the Net" forum
- ALF 5 in 60 seconds
- Video games, pro wrestling, and the politics of hypocrisy
- Averages Are Meaningless in an Expanding Market
- Justine Bateman, Net Neutrality & Celebrity Witnesses
- Lady Chatterley's Lover
- World IP Day on Thursday, the 24th of April
- Crovitz's Information Age
- No Intelligence Allowed
- ALF 5 Tonight!
- MN Gov. Pawlenty Supports National ID Law
- Hans Reiser: A Creep but not a Murderer?
- Sensors and Social Consequences
- What Did He Say?
- Games Google Plays: The Psychology of the Spectrum Auction
- a great pronking hearing
- Monster Cable Look Like Idiots
- Bad Data & Broken Databases at the FCC
- ALF 5: Free the Jefferson 1 Fundraiser!
- Change of Venue for ALF 5
- Beware of hot chicks offering chocolate bars
- Can the French really ban pro-thin websites?
- Techno Bashing
- Just sell off the D block?
- More on regulatory relief for telcos
- IPI's IP Day
- ALF 5 with Special Guest Brooke Oberwetter
- Dance, Dance Revolution
- More Free the Jefferson One
- Lessig and Corruption
- review: Kutner & Olson's "Grand Theft Childhood"
- Cartesian Theater
- If Ladies Can Knit on Plane Trips, the Terrorists Have Won
- another problem for the Zittrain thesis -- old people!
- Another digital transition? Cuban says yes
- The Perils of Mandatory Parental Controls and Restrictive Defaults
- Shall we censor newspapers "for the children"?
- IT Policy at Princeton
- What would we do without the FCC?
- Settling Accounts
- Dingel on FTAs
- ALR media regulation symposium Friday 4/18
- Can TLF embed videos?
- A Flood of Home-Grown Stupidity
- Bilski Briefs
- Where's the Trade?
- great piece on online behavioral marketing and privacy
- And the Prize for Best Reporting in a 19th Century Medium Goes to…
- the Wikipedia Wars continue
- Google's Bids
- Trademark and Search Terms
- Micropayments reconsidered
- Eroding Press Freedom Isn't An Iraq Withdrawal Plan
- Sunstein's "libertarian paternalism" is really just paternalism
- Twilight for TV Critics?
- Why Can't They Get Along?
- You Can't Make an Omelette without Breaking a Few Eggs
- Back To Spectrum Giveaways
- Chertoff on REAL ID - a Little Off on IT
- OOXML: The Integrity of a Standards Body
- Cleland: Google Took $7 Billion
- Superlative REAL ID Editorial
- presentation at PSU's conference on future of video games
- Obsessed by FISA? Don't forget CALEA!
- The Genesis of Unlicensed Wireless Policy
- Here Comes Clay Shirky
- More on the DataTreasury Patents
- Comcast
- Dumb Pipes, a Dumb Idea: Net Neutrality as 21st Century Socialism
- The OOXML Standard Brouhaha
- Me on ID
- Patenting the Cure for Cancer
- Should White Spaces be Unlicensed?
- "Spectrum Talk" blog
- Last Mile Problem SOLVED!
- I hate to say I told you so, but...
- Never Be Late Again: Google Announces "Custom Time"
March 2008
- Did You Read this in The Paper Today?: Biggest Drop Ever for Newspaper Revenue in 2007
- Public safety spectrum, here we go again
- DataTreasury's "Property Rights"
- The Poor, Beleaguered Patent Trolls
- Patents and the Small Inventor
- Quote of the Day
- Dancing On The Newspaper's Grave
- Apple, openness, and the Zittrain thesis
- Guerilla Fingerprinting
- Microsoft's Cross-Ideological Tech Summit
- I've Got Mine Pre-ordered
- Comcast-BitTorrent: A Triumph for Regulation?
- Google's Radical Burning Man Festival Roots
- Fear the Blog Post, Baker!
- Conflicts of Interest
- The Ridiculous Dance
- File-sharers Sneezing in the Salad?
- The House's Bloated FISA Bill
- Problem Solved
- Rate My Privacy Policy
- coverage from Tech Policy Summit
- Bebo, IP Addresses, and Infinite Workarounds
- Byron Commission (UK) report - initial thoughts
- Patent Reform Lite
- The New War on MP3s: EMI's Push to Ban Remote Music Storage
- Unclogging the 3rd Pipe
- Korean Subway TV vs. Failed Wi-Fi Schemes
- "Critical blow" for broadcasters in the ad market?
- The New Smoots OR Silicon is the New Steel
- Ike Elliott's "fiber vs. coax" series
- Google's excellent new online safety campaign
- The Newspaper Tailspin
- The Tech Works
- Palfrey on trends in global cybercensorship
- "Parental Controls and Online Child Protection" - Version 3.0 release
- Through the Looking Glass
- Tech Policy Summit this week
- New podcast: In Conversation
- Podcast!
- "Truth" online
- L-1 Acquires Digimarc ID Systems
- Open Platforms vs. Central Planning
- Lost Laptop Follies, Part 7: NIH Loses Health Records
- Rickrolling Now Passe
- review of Zittrain's "Future of the Internet"
- Short for File Servers
- Well Played, Google. Well Played.
- "Montana Wins REAL ID Standoff"
- Defeating a Defense of Data Mining
- Boaz on Freedom
- Lessig's "Change Congress" Announcement
- The Economic Value of Snake-Oil
- Stewart Baker: Light on Security and History
- Grad School Bleg
- The Foolishness of Andrew Keen
- Face (book) off
- Do you have the "S.I.G.N.S." of Net / video game addiction?
- Mitchell: JCT is Behind the Laffer Curve
- Monetary Policy Crashes the Party
- 1975 Betamax Promotional Video
- The conversation the Net enables
- Media Metrics: The Pictures!
- More Twitter talk
- Digging into the FISA Debate
- The Cybernetic Age
- Tibet, Technology & the Future of Freedom
- Supreme Court Will Hear Indecency Case
- Nominal Convergence: USTelecom Now "The Broadband Association"
- Media Metrics: The Series So Far
- Mermigas on the challenges facing traditional media
- CAN-SPAM Remains a Sideshow
- Yes, Wikipedia should take the money
- Video Games, Ratings & Transparency: A Response to Jerry Bonner
- So Much for Relying on Valleywag
- Joe Nacchio to Get New Trial
- Google and the NSA: A Non-Denial Denial?
- Tweet!
- Thoughts on 2008 “State of the News Media” report
- Money Isn't Everything
- A Short History of Wiretapping Abuse
- Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant
- Quote of the Day
- IDC's "Diverse & Exploding Digital Universe" report
- Think you've seen everything the Web 2.0 world has to offer?
- One Man's TSA Experience
- Same Old Song & Dance for Telecom & VoIP Regulation
- Intern at the New York Times
- New Hampshire to Telcos: Just Say "No" to Competition
- Internet Expert Andrew Odlyzko at George Mason Law
- Google: The End is Near!
- RateMyCop.com Enjoying Streisand Effect
- McCullagh on Mass Surveillance
- IT Protectionism
- Peer-to-peer is Just a Tool
- USA Today's story about the Martin FCC
- News Flash: Web Companies Collect Data!
- California Considers Rejecting REAL ID
- Defending America Through Telephone Subsidies
- Modularity and Spontaneous Order
- Kentucky Bill Targets Online Anonymity
- Lessig on "blowing up the FCC"
- Some books worth reading
- Watch-Listing Foolishness
- Computing "in the Cloud"? Not.
- US Air's Control Freakery
- Sweet, Sweet WiFi
- New Telecom Surveillance Whistleblower
- Microsoft Acquires Credentica
- Schneier on REAL ID
- Free Quasi-Socialist Culture?
- Those AWOL Libertarians
- I-Banks as Miniature Police States
- Freetards = Greedtards
- Young kids and rational messaging about online safety
- Debunking Rural Broadband Myths
- Health 2.0: A Promising Prescription
- $0.00 -- The Abundance of Nothing -- Free! vs. Free Culture
- Technologies of Freedom
- Notes from Clay Shirky on social media
- Politics Makes People Dumb
- New Paper on Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification
- Media Metrics #7: An Uncertain Future for Newspapers
- Wikipedia != Jimmy Wales
- Market failure in the sports programming market?
- Boom!
- Fun with Analogies
- Jon Fine's "Requiem for Old-Time Radio"
- RIP Gary Gygax
- "Concurrency modeling" for bandwidth / network management
- Rep. Markey’s Wireless Investment Prohibition Act
- Net gambling & online speech / commerce enforcement challenges in general
- Playmobil Airport Security
- Google offering free phone numbers & voice mail to homeless
- Onion News Network on the FCC's indecency "standard"
- welcoming Bret Swanson & Ryan Radia to the TLF gang
- Japan Does It, Too
- Net Neutrality Paper
- Building a Broadband Strategy and BroadbandCensus.com
- Random Science Video
- End Software Patents
- Media Metrics #6: The