O’Riley Radar has a thought provoking look at Education as a Platform. The basic idea builds on that described in a book called Disrupting Class, but I find some of the authors points more illuminating than the analogy between education and technology. First, the author calls out a false dichotomy: I am of the opinion …
Ars Technica posts about the latest news in Net Neutrality (Waxman’s net neutrality compromise: solution or last gasp?). What’s interesting here is that they’re (finally?) calling it what proponents have been essentially asking for — classifying ISPs as “common carriers.” We asked the FCC whether the agency’s latest net neutrality proposal, which would subject ISPs …
Engadget recently interviewed Columbia professor, Tim Wu on the subject of Internet Neutrality. He mentioned a few things that may have been alluded to before, but perhaps with a more insightful turn of the phrase. Once you have the right to block [access], you have the right to block speech. This is a country that …
Ars Technica reports about a bill that was introduced today: If passed, the Justice Department could ask a federal court to for an injunction that would order a domain registrar or registry to stop resolving an infringing site’s domain name, so that visitors to PirateBay.org, for example, would get a 404 error. The idea of …
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.
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