This headline from a blog post on CNet sums up well what I’ve been thinking a lot about lately: The state of copyright law ensures that an emergent business which is not on unquestionable legal ground must endure a great deal of pressure from content owners. What do I mean by the state of copyright …
The FCC (nobody’s saying exactly who) has allegedly ordered the destruction of a report which found in part that: local ownership of television stations adds almost five and one-half minutes of total news to broadcasts and more than three minutes of “on-location” news. The conclusion is at odds with FCC arguments made when it voted …
A recent Slashdot question to readers on How Much Does Your Work Depend on the Internet? includes a number of posts remarking on how important redundancy is to running an effective network. Also, Ars is noting that the fight over encrypted Bittorrent is coming down to the creation of systems which systematically examine each packet …
Tim Berners-Lee on Web 2.0: “nobody even knows what it means” I haven’t listened to the interview yet, but it looks as though the inventor of the Web isn’t too hot on the idea of Web 2.0 as something new. Specifically, he argues that the original web acted as a collaborative space. For geeks like …
John is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He studies the social impact of media technology law and policy, with a special emphasis on copyright. He also is an instructional technology consultant for DoIT-Academic Technology.
John doesn't update his blog often, and many of the thoughts are probably half-baked. While the web has sort of an eternal memory, the current and future reader is urged not to take all of this too seriously.
Think of this blog as "John thinking out loud."
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