Total Telecom – Online ad sales open door to viruses A good deal of the Internet is, for better or worse, funded by advertising. Stories like this show just how shaky of a foundation this might be. Viruses can be incorporated directly within an ad, so that simply clicking on the ad or visiting the …
Academic source code dust-up symptom of CS education ills – Ars Technica Short story–student puts Comp Sci class homework online under an open source license after the class is over; instructor is annoyed. My quick take on this is that it sounds much like paranoia over sharing of test questions. I think, as academics, we …
Who’s afraid of a digital world? The World Copyright Summit – Ars Technica Interesting report commentary on the World Copyright Summit, which has been happening in D.C. for the last 2 days.
A Penn State colleague who we were fortunate enough to meet at (and before) Drupal Camp WI blogs about how we might keep the momentum of this event going. He’s right that there are a number of similarities between our schools, and hopefully this will be an incentive to keep the connection alive. Sharing ideas …
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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