Monthly Archives: July 2008

IT consumerization & higher ed: legal and educational problems

An Ars interview with Oren Sreebny, “director of emerging technology for the central IT and networking unit at the University of Washington,” reveals an interesting confluence between law, technology, and education. Q: [Regarding the] legal headaches that higher ed IT departments have to deal with. He said something like “We spend more time being lawyers

Quicksilver Labeling

I use OS X’s colored labels and smart folders to keep track of articles to read and things to do. Using the menus can be kind of a pain, and surprisingly, Quicksilver doesn’t have the ability to label built in. These Applescripts can be used to quickly label an item in the Finder. Simply select

Why privacy and copyright make small providers nervous

Another response to my assertion that FERPA has some scared tells me deserves a bit of clarification. The trouble (and in some respects, benefit) of laws like copyright and privacy, which only become certain after long and expensive litigation, is that they are not completely explicit. Borderline cases leave small providers wondering whether they might

YouTube user data

What does one need to prove that a business is built on infringement?  A judge who ordered Google to hand over detailed viewing data to Viacom states: They need the data to compare the attractiveness of allegedly infringing videos with that of non-infringing videos. A markedly higher proportion of infringing-video watching may bear on plaintiffs’