News

Pakistan blocks Facebook; quantum of difference; privacy encores; IFPI robots vs. Blogger; information brokerages; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

Facebook and, yes, privacy; "dealing with foreign legal threats"; the dimensions of openness; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

Irony springs eternal; ROFLcon; science journalism online; writing books; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

Futures of the Net; generativity in science; DMCA fumblings; EchoStar's fate; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

Bing filtering; Google/YouTube in Italy; the news ecosystem; open access analysis -- and news; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

Net freedom beyond circumvention; the worlds of Please Rob Me and Chatroulette; Macedonian folk music; crappy video game crit; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

Google Buzz; DMCA hijinks; the Kindle; Next Generation Connectivity; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

The NFL and trademark law; the FBI and data retention; iPad as pier glass; Internet filtering in Germany; the question of an ICT4D field; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

Nature augmented; filtering at multiple levels of abstraction; perspectives on privacy; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

Open access in 2009; reader privacy; flash cookies; the "Content-o-net"; Clinton's Internet speech; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

.il TLD in UAE; Comcast-NBC; open-source DRM?; an all-IP network; California anti-SLAPP; and more acronyms and hyphens...in this week's BUZZ...

TV on the computer; Russian blogs; lobbying; security incentives; the persistence of data; sympathy, action; the list, primordially; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

Fighting bots; human computing; We, Information; "slow news"; CDA230's safe harbor; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

Fiji; Cambrian time; Yes Men; Google Dashboard; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

Walled gardens; "Metaphors We Regulate By"; 140 characters of error; "Virtual Freedom"; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

Malware data reports; Wu Tang Clan; unlicensed wireless devices; net neutrality rulemaking; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

DIY book scanning; transparency; Noonan v. Staples; motherhood in the global recession; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

Bloggers' "material connections"; the "Informed P2P User Act"; the law of mockery; personal data; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

Plato & finals clubs? open educational resources; the Chilling Effects blog is back! Sidewiki; Typhoon Ketsana; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

Nasty, brutish, and short; the Judgment of Solomon; the Google Books settlement; the Russian Net; communications infrastructure in Africa; and more...in this week's BUZZ...