The Best and Worst Internet Laws
Articles: The Best and Worst Internet Laws Date: Apr 20, 2007 By Eric Goldman. Over the past dozen years, the lure of regulating the Internet has proven irresistible to legislators. For example, in the 109th Congress, almost 1,100 introduced bills referenced the word Internet, and hundreds of Internet laws have been passed by Congress and […]
Read MoreCRACKED.com – From N00B to Nerd: The 4 Stages of Life on the Internet
CRACKED.com – From N00B to Nerd: The 4 Stages of Life on the Internet: Internet Old Age is different, as we’re capable of remembering things that actually used to be better: like the glory days of Napster, where it went around teaching people how fun and easy it could be to steal things in a […]
Read Morefrom Doc: The Living Edge
The Living Edge: David Sifry has just put up The State of the Live Web, April 2007. To explain the Live Web, he points to a pair of pieces I wrote in 2005. If you’d like a more visual explanation, follow the slides from this talk I gave at OSCON last summer, starting here. —– […]
Read MoreLinux.com | Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history
Linux.com | Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history: The Library of Congress, where thousands of rare public domain documents relating to America’s history are stored and slowly decaying, is about to begin an ambitious project to digitize these fragile documents using Linux-based systems and publish the results online in multiple formats. […]
Read MoreInternational Journal of Internet Research Ethics
Announcing the release of the International Journal of Internet Research Ethics Call for Papers for the Premier Issue of IJIRE Description and Scope: The IJIRE is the first peer-reviewed online journal, dedicated specifically to cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural research on Internet Research Ethics. All disciplinary perspectives, from those in the arts and humanities, to the social, behavioral, […]
Read MoreMuseum Professionals and the Relevance of LIS Expertise
Museum Professionals and the Relevance of LIS Expertise: Marty, Paul F. (2007) Museum Professionals and the Relevance of LIS Expertise. — Paul Marty, who I met while interviewing at FSU, is cranking out some great papers in museums, museum informatics, and museum professionals in relation to library/information professionals
Read Morecddc in the new.. sort of Peter Suber, Open Access News
Peter Suber, Open Access News : Is China blocking OA to Chinese Marxist texts? Noam Cohen, Who’s Attacking an Online Marxist Archive? China Is Suspected of Trying to Block Access to Texts, New York Times, February 5, 2007. Excerpt: …According to the Marxist Internet Archive, an online community that produces and organizes an ever-growing [open […]
Read MoreVint Cerf: one quarter of all computers part of a botnet
Vint Cerf: one quarter of all computers part of a botnet: Cerf told his listeners that approximately 600 million computers are connected to the Internet, and that 150 million of them might be participants in a botnetâ€â€nearly all of them unwilling victims. Weber remarks that “in most cases the owners of these computers have not […]
Read MoreInternet should be run by key players: new ITU boss | Tech&Sci | Internet | Reuters.com
Internet should be run by key players: new ITU boss | Tech&Sci | Internet | Reuters.com: The Internet should continue to be overseen by major agencies including ICANN and the ITU, rather than any new “superstructure”, the new head of the International Telecommunications Union said on Friday.Hamadoun Toure, who took up the reins of the […]
Read MoreFind yourself on the Map of the Internet!
Find yourself on the Map of the Internet!: Not sure where you lie in the great wilderness that is the Internet? Wondering how far away your friends (or enemies) are along the TCP/IP pipes? Look no further  just use the Map of the Internet! ——- handy, and interesting mapper.
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