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• A Call for Copyright Rebellion

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 548
  Lawrence Lessig argues (reasonably) that academics should take a stand against proposed copyright laws. "Scholars, he said, have allowed the copyright conversation to be steered by lawyers and businesses who are not first and foremost to intellectual discovery. To them, Lessig delivered a simple message: Stop it." ...
  5 days ago

• Communication power, who has it?

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 421
  Paris riots Well we did say Communities Dominate Brands ! In an interview with Henry Jenkins he of Participatory Culture and Convergence Culture and even Transmedia storytelling fame, Maxime Cervulle for Poli, a French magazine of media and cultural theory. In response to Henry’s question about the ...
  6 days ago

• Plain Sight Corruption: Senator Burr and Rape Victims (HuffingtonPost.com)

  
  Ink and Virtue — Authority: 454
  
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• Cultural production in the age of sharing

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 421
  Cory Doctorow , from Boing Boing discusses his latest publishing venture. This is as non-linear as it gets in terms of thinking how business works in this networked wired up world. And fascinatingly enough its all about people, people connecting, information flowing, distributed information and content platforms, ...
  6 days ago

• Disinfecting the swamp

  
  The Great E-mancipator — Authority: 116
  I found a link on my regular en.europa-eu-audience mailing entitled “ Against Transparency: The perils of openness in government ” but it didn’t take me directly to the source, so first time around I ignored it! Receiving the mail again on Saturday morning, when there was little other news, I trawled a bit ...
  1 week ago

• Some Thoughts on the New Surveillance

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  Last night I spoke at “The Little Idea,” a mini-lecture series launched in New York by Ari Melber of The Nation and now starting up here in D.C., on the incredibly civilized premise that, instead of some interminable panel that culminates in a series of audience monologues-disguised-as-questions, it’s much ...
  2 weeks ago

• Video : American Ingenuity at Risk in Net Neutrality Debate

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 438
  Using some of the most influential thinkers behind some of the greatest online innovations in recent years, this video illustrates exactly what is at risk in the Net Neutrality debate – American ingenuity, creativity, opportunity, and success. What each of the people in this video illustrate is that Net Neutrality ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to Make Transparency Work

  
  Breakout Performance: Ironfire Capital — Authority: 411
  By Eric Jackson ...
  3 weeks ago

• TNR Debate Recap: Against Transparency

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 147
  In our last issue, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig made the provocative case outlining the perils of what he called the “naked transparency movement,” which seeks to make massive amounts of data about the government readily available for public consumption. In a TNR debate last week, six writers weighed in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Today at TNR (October 19, 2009)

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 140
  How the Taliban and Al Qaeda Are Merging--And Why We Should Be Very Worried , by Peter Bergen Can R. Crumb Do Justice to the First Book of the Bible? by Robert Alter The Administration Finally Has an Official Darfur Policy. But Where’s Obama? by Barron YoungSmith Spend and Deliver: Sorry, Health Care Reform ...
  3 weeks ago

• TNR Debate: Too Much Transparency? (Part VI)

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 755
  I had hoped my essay, " Against Transparency ," might have inspired something of a marriage between the transparency movement and campaign finance reform. To that end, I had offered something old and something new, something borrowed, and, as is my style, something blue. But like high school all over again, I have ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lawrence Lessig: Good Reasons To Limit Open Government

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 801
  Last week, The New Republic posted a provocative essay by open-information guru Lawrence Lessig , making a case to which he would seem to be antithetical: that we must temper our headlong rush into universal government transparency . (I’ll provide here a summary of his argument, though I’d recommend either ...
  3 weeks ago

• TNR Debate: Too Much Transparency? (Part V)

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 755
  Lawrence Lessigs denunciation of runaway transparency is insightful but unduly dour about the potential consequences of the release of accurate information about public officials. It’s also insufficiently appreciative of the potential benefits of its public dissemination.
  3 weeks ago

• The Pirate Party prepares a raid on Capitol Hill (from a 92 Buick)

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: Economy , People , Media Avast, ye hearties! Congress is about to get invaded by a pirate, if Stephen Collings has his way. Collings, 25, a Nashville-based design engineer, hopes to become the first U.S. Representative endorsed by the U.S. Pirate Party , which seeks to reform copyright laws and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Larry Lessig: Beyond Transparency, and Net Triumphalism

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 601
  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

• The transparency trap: why open government might be worse than closed

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 581
  If you’d asked me to make a list of people I thought would be opposed to political transparency and “open government” , Lawrence Lessig would not have appeared in my top hundred. But here he is, writing at The New Republic , saying that while the intentions of government transparency movements are good, ...
  4 weeks ago

• TNR Debate: Too Much Transparency? (Part IV)

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 755
  Lawrence Lessig worries that the citizenry will be swayed by invalid conclusions drawn from the data that transparency is making available. The danger is real, but he misidentifies the culprit. Opposition researchers and corrupt public actors found no shortage of ammo in the pre-transparency days. Swift-Boaters, ...
  4 weeks ago

• TNR Debate: Too Much Transparency? (Part III)

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 755
  Lawrence Lessig argues convincingly that there are dangers in systematically favoring transparency over privacy: A thoughtful democracy should strike a balance between both values, which sometimes compete and sometimes reinforce each other. I found less cause for optimism, however, in Lessig’s proposals for ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lessig’s “Against Transparency”: A walkthrough

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 601
  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

• TNR Debate: Too Much Transparency? (Part II)

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 755
  Part I: "Why more transparency actually makes politicians less likely to act in the public interest," By Tim Wu
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