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• Ariziona rules metadata is part of public documents

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 599
  The Supreme Court of Arizona has ruled that the metadata included in electronic doucments is covered by the public records law. If the state has to make the document available, it also has to make the metadata available. The court reasoned analogically: “It would be illogical, and contrary to the policy of ...
  5 days ago

• Why sending large attachments sucks, but we’ll keep doing it anyway

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 599
  The Google Operating System blog (independent of Google) has a useful post explaining why it’s a bad idea to send large attachments , even though Google now lets you attach files up to 25MB in size. The reasons the post gives have to do with how inefficient attachments are for the system: They get expanded and ...
  1 week ago

• FRom the Berkman Center

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 599
  Some posts from Berkpeople this week that I thought I’d call out: Dan Gillmor responds to a Washington Post op-ed that calls for federal subsidies to support local news gathering. Andrew Moshirnia at the Citizen Media Law Project opens his piece on the MPAA’s attempt to make some TV content un-recordable ...
  2 weeks ago

• FCC’s Net Neutrality discussion board

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 599
  The FCC has put up a site — openinternet.gov — where anyone (after registering with a valid email address) can post an idea, or vote existing ideas up or down. I love the idea of the feds opening discussions up, although, I am not convinced that this particular implementation achieves its presumed aims. But, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Three strikes and you’re European, or, How to Lose a Generation with One Single Law

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 599
  BoingBoing reports boingnantly on the miserable enthusiasm of the (unelected, heavily-lobbied) European Commission for making it illegal to provide families with an Internet connection if any member is accused of having violated copyright three times. Take a look at your hard drive and tell me for sure that a judge ...
  2 weeks ago

• Radio Berkman on Forgetting, and Remembering the Media

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 599
  There are two new-ish Radio Berkman interviews up: Me talking with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger about his book that argues that we are in danger of forgetting how to forget, and Russell Neuman on learning from the past of the media.
  3 weeks ago

• Larry Lessig: Beyond Transparency, and Net Triumphalism

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 599
  Plenty is being written already trying to parse, understand, and come to terms with Larry Lessig’s article “ Against Transparency ” in the New Republic. Ethan Zuckerman does his usual outstanding job in clarifying ideas sympathetically. Transparency advocate Carl Malamud responds to Lessig. I presented my ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lessig’s “Against Transparency”: A walkthrough

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 599
  I’ve been in a small round of email among friends, arguing over exactly what Larry Lessig means in his article in The New Republic titled “ Against Transparency .” It is a challenging article for those of us who support government transparency, and Larry is obviously both influential and brilliant. So, I wanted ...
  4 weeks ago

• Do-it-yourself Google Books — a million dollar idea for Amazon?

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 599
  Harry Lewis has a terrific post about a $300 do-it-yourself book scanner he saw at the D is for Digitize conference on the Google Book settlement. The plans are available at DIYBookScanner.org , from Daniel Reetz, the inventor. There are lots of personal uses for home-digitized books, so — I am definitely ...
  4 weeks ago

• Net uncovers new type of cloud

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 599
  There are reports of a new type of cloud , one that is not currently in the official International Cloud Atlas . Or, possibly, it is a formation that’s been around forever, but the scattered reports are only now coalescing thanks to the Net. According to Amazon’s review of Richard Hamblyn’s The Invention ...
  4 weeks ago

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