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• OMG. I disagree with Umberto Eco!

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 582
  It makes me very nervous to disagree with Umberto Eco because he is so fathomlessly smart. But I think in this case I do. Sort of. There’s a fabulous interview with Eco in Spiegel (in English) about why he loves lists. He is characteristically pithy, provocative and wise. A crucial paragraph, from the beginning: ...
  8 hours ago

• Google Books Settlement 2.0?

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 582
  Google has announced a revised settlement [ redlined pdf faq pdf ] that it hopes will address the concerns raised by the Department of Justice and many other groups . Here’s a summary of the summary Google provides [ pdf ], although IANAL and I encourage you to read the summary, which is written in non-legal ...
  12 hours ago

• Lego blocks unmiscellanized

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 582
  Giles Turnbull at the Morning News reports on his research interrogating (gently) children from different families about what they call various Lego pieces . Quite interesting in its own taxonomic way, and a topic that’s amusing even just to contemplate.
  3 days ago

• Jay Rosen’s 10 Press Commandments/Tweets

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 582
  Derek Barry blogs Jay Rosen ’s keynote at the Media140 in Sydney. Jay gave his ten commandments (in the form of tweets) for press in the age of the Internet. (Jay apparently noted my post on transparency and objectivity , which Derek looked at and thought was “ironically anonymous.” I never considered ...
  3 days ago

• ethanz blogs, well, me

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 582
  I’ve been honored with one of Ethan Zuckerman’s incredible liveblog postings . I gave a 45 min talk at the Berkman Center yesterday. I spoke quickly, waved my hands a lot, and spewed. [Rough draft here .] Even so, Ethan was able to commit an amazing act of streaming journalism, with very few places where I ...
  4 days ago

• Ariziona rules metadata is part of public documents

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 582
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 582
  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: 582
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• FCC’s Net Neutrality discussion board

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 582
  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, ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 582
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Radio Berkman on Forgetting, and Remembering the Media

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 582
  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: 582
  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

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