I’ve joked about a “blicki” in the past (a merge of a blog and a wiki), and browsing around looking for the answer to one of life’s little technology questions, I stumbled by this post by Jim Groom of UMW. It looks like they’ve been doing some great stuff with WordPress, and have now integrated …
PGP creator Philip Zimmermann posted the (lack of an) issue he had with Sen. Biden and the encryption bill. Declan quotes me, creating the impression I criticized Biden for some legislation that Biden introduced in 1991. Declan’s quote from me is out of context because it does not make it clear that I never mentioned …
Declan McCullagh gives a detailed overview of Joe Biden’s positions on a variety of tech laws. He brings out much of what I expected–there may be cause for some worry on a variety of fronts like copyright, privacy, and the “war on terror.” Whether you agree or disagree with his politics, there were a number …
A couple of longer reads that might be of interest to any newspaper or online news buffs. Out of Print (New Yorker): This is a bit older, but I just got around to reading it today. An interesting historical account of the role of a newspaper in democracy and how the Internet is changing all …
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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