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August 2008
- Anti-Spam Laws and the First Amendment
- Day 505: The XM-Sirius Circus Is Finally Over
- Clear Apologizes
- Plaxo's Social Networking "Bill of Rights"
- Regulate the Internet? FCC.gov Has It Right
- John McCain asks a question on LinkedIn
- TPW 37: The Comcast Kerfuffle 2: The Chairman Strikes Back
- Regulation begets Regulation
- Accountability Now Money-Bomb August 8th
- True Cost of Video Game Censorship (continued)
- FCC's DRM ban may derail distribution of new-release films on cable TV
- Easing China's Transition to - Nationalism?
- Broadband access platforms & speeds over 3 decades
- Confederates in my Hard Drive
- Cerf on managing networks & the need for industry discussion
- Google's Got Plenty of Compute Cycles
- 10,000 Bills in Congress, and the Annual Spending Process Ignored
- Why I'm Not a Copyright Pessimist
- A Belated Critique of Jerry's Commons Paper
- A Copyright Giant Gives Up in Disgust
- Just What Are the Facts?
- FCC Hammers Comcast For Deception and Unreasonable Internet Practices
- Bandwidth Cartels, Public and Private
- From the FCC, DrewClark.com is Live...
- If Bandwidth Is Abundant, It Can't Be Scarce, So Why Can't We Have Net Neutrality?
- Under-Appreciated Existing Legal Remedies for Trolling, Defamation and Other "Malwebolent" Invasions of Privacy
- Game, Set, and Match: Martin!
July 2008
- Hijacking the Internet
- Radio Propagation and Frequency
- Excellent discussion on broadband metering
- Bill and Keep and the Free Market
- Network Neutrality Is Not About Price
- Should it be illegal to text or talk while walking down the road?
- Customer-Owned Fiber
- Tim Wu's "Absurd" Op-ed
- Wu's Many Mistaken Metaphors
- Tim Wu's "Mother-May-I" World of Net Neutrality Regulation
- The Future of Event Ticket Reselling: Price Caps, Taxes and Venue Control
- What Mike Said
- Product Placement in Historical Context
- NPR spot on Third Circuit decision in Janet Jackson case
- Cuil's Incredible Privacy Policy
- Tarring and Feathering Comcast
- McDowell: Collaboration Over Regulation
- Jeers and Cheers for Prof. Duffy
- Can Congress tweet? Should bloggers care?
- Joint FCC Filing on Internet Filtering Plan for AWS-3 Spectrum
- Nice to Be Wanted
- There's Plenty of Competition in Search and Plenty of Interest
- Australian ISP-Level Content Filtering Report Released
- Telecom and Transportation Should Be Focus of Infrastructure Investments, Says Think Tank
- Skype Back Door?
- RIP Randy Pausch
- "Reforming Fourth Amendment Privacy Doctrine"
- The Cost of Regulation
- Internet Habits and the Presidency
- Google Search Won't Return Links to cato-at-liberty.org
- Google and Comcast, sitting in a tree...
- The "Coburn Omnibus"
- COPA Falls Again; Is Historic 3rd Trip to Supremes Coming?
- "What Matters is Freedom"
- The NY AG's Anti-Free-Speech Shakedown Racket
- World of World of Warcraft
- e-gold Settles Criminal Charges, Goes Back to Work
- It's Never Been More Clear
- Local Web Ads and the Future of Newspapers
- 2008 edition of "Essential Facts about Video Games" is out
- "Scientific" Media Ratings & Labels: What Exactly Does That Mean?
- Comcast resists pressure to drop Usenet access
- Viacom Lawsuit Against YouTube Still Useless
- Me, Media Whore
- 3rd Circuit ruling against FCC in Janet Jackson case
- The Day the Music (Was Scheduled to) Die
- Google Dilemma
- Primer on Mobile TV Market
- Some Shameless iPhone Gushing
- The medium is not the message
- Felten on The Decline of Localist Broadcasting Policies
- Why I love MythBusters...
- It's Tough Being a Rock Star
- Best Albums Since Your Birth
- CWA Wants Better Broadband Data, As Does Internet for Everyone
- Goodies on the WashingtonWatch.com Blog
- Dear Gov. Patterson... Regarding that Video Game Bill You Are About to Sign
- PFF Database Cleared by StopBadware.org & Put Back Online
- Will Stirs the High-Skilled Hornets Nest
- Newspaper Deathwatch?
- Silly Government Policies Do Eventually Go Away
- On Google-Yahoo! as an Antitrust Problem
- Patent Failure Review
- Want Better Broadband in America? Take the Broadband Census! (Commentary)
- Memo to Congress: We can handle new media
- DownsizeDC Ramps Up
- Our First Net Neutrality Law: Congrats to our Big Gov't Opponents
- Declan on Google-Microsoft Antitrust Shenanigans
- A Tale of Two Agency Cultures
- Is Open Government Anti-Corporate?
- PC Game Software Sales Actually Growing
- Media Metrics: The Report
- Is Piracy Killing PC Gaming?
- James Harper Exposed
- "Cry [Censorship] and Let Slip the Dogs of [Regulation]!" - A Lesson in the Dangers of Googlephobia
- The Next Great Technopanic: Wireless Geo-Location / Social Mapping
- Whatever Martin says, the FCC's 'Internet Policy Statement' is not enforceable
- A La Carte Regulation and the Failure of Good Intentions
- FISA Wrap-up Podcast
- The FISA Bill Was Not Progress
- iPhone 2.0 cracked in hours... what was that Zittrain thesis again?
- The Image Says it All
- National Rules for a Global Ad Market
- Making Things Harder on the Heroes
- Oversight by Magic?
- No Fireworks at Today's Online Ads Hearing
- Technopanics and the Great Social Networking Scare
- "Accountability Now" Plans Aug. 8 Money Bomb
- No YouTube for Congress
- Me on FISA on KMOX
- Great Moments in Government Accountability
- Google vs. Google
- The FBI and Politics
- Social Media Slide Show
- Digital Transition Hysteria
- Our Continued Wishful Thinking about "Media Localism"
- The More Things Change...
- "J. Edgar Google"
- Evolving Theory of Network Effects
- Wood in Popular Culture
- Liberals Abandoning the First Amendment, Part 3: The Fox Case
- Putting Politicians First?
- More on Randy Vanderhoof and Privacy
- GOOGLE FAKES COMPLIANCE WITH PRIVACY LAW. OBSCURE BLOGGER DEMANDS INVESTIGATION. DEVELOPING . . .
- Obama Foundering on Telecom Immunity
- WashingtonWatch.com Blog Debuts
- Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Viewer Records
- Two Declarations of Independence
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 6 (Further reading)
- A Real Grassroots Campaign
- Meta (+ It's Friday and You're Not Reading Anyway)
- Showdown in Kansas City
- Nobel Laureates against Software Patents
- FISA Warrants vs. Criminal Warrants
- Broadband Internet Adoption Stalls, Regresses for Poor, Says Pew Report
- Physician, Heal Thyself
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 5 (CDT-PFF joint editorial)
- The Incoherent Singularity
- Cato Annual Report
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 4 (Pervasiveness is Moot)
- Understanding The True Cost of Video Game Censorship Efforts
- Polycentric Patent Law
June 2008
- Copyright Industrial Policy
- Patent Sharks
- Save the Orphan (Works)
- Another muni wi-fi failure (Oakland Wireless)
- Things to Ban While Driving
- Cerf: Nationalize the Internet?
- Genomics Meets Sacramento
- Obama on the Anti-Fairness Doctrine Bandwagon?
- The 'Contradictory Ideals' of Internet for Everyone campaign
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 3 (Pacifica's Pretzel Logic)
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 2 (Brief History of Indecency Enforcement)
- Worst Technology Journalism of 2008 - First in a Series
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 1 (General Overview)
- Fairness Doctrine Debate: Less and More than Meets the Eye
- Small Business Hearing on Internet Ads
- Best (Government) Job Ever
- New Biography of Georges Doriot, Founding Father of Venture Capital
- Confusing Fact and Fiction at Techdirt
- Not One, Not Two, but THREE Competing Open Source Mobile Operating Systems
- Neanderthal Philosophy
- Did Contributions Buy Telecom Immunity Votes in the House?
- Well, Not Actually for Everyone . . .
- Floridians' Tax Dollars at Work Fighting Smut
- Let's See How Well Peer Production Works
- Family Security Matters: REAL ID = National ID
- Drew Bennett Blogging as Special Correspondent for BroadbandCensus.com
- TSA Background Check Includes Political Party
- Regulators to Save Us from Loud TV Ads and Product Placements
- If a Trend Can't Continue, It Won't Continue
- CWA Blog Claims Credit for FCC Data Order, But Ignores Local Company Data
- Alcohol Liberation Front 5.1: Scoble's Tech Happy Hour in DC Wednesday, June 25
- The EFF Campaign Against Telecom Company Immunity
- Will Bandwidth Demands ‘Break’ the Internet? Yea or Nay, We Need Independent Monitoring
- Retention Marketing: Bad Call at the FCC
- Lessig, Obama, and Grassroots Political Strategy
- Senate Housing Bill to Require Collecting of Online Payment Information
- FISA Capitulation: Bad Policy, Bad Politics
- Air-Headed E-Voting Advocacy
- The Winback Wars, Round Two: Verizon v. NCTA
- GAO Issues Report on Privacy
- Paperless Tickets - Not so Convenient
- TCS Daily on Regulatory Policy
- Rush Holt on FISA
- Goose, Gander, Sauce, Etc.
- "Strange" Bedfellows
- Sigh...
- Google Endorses Speed-based Prioritization - What About Net Neutrality?
- FISA Doesn't Expire
- Reed Hundt versus Michael Powell--Observations
- Kozinski on Copyright
- Google to Offer Broadband Users Tools to Monitor ISP Traffic Management
- Online Sellers Shouldn't Be Liable for the Stolen Goods Sold on Their Sites
- Internet growth: Fast or faster?
- XM-Sirius, regulatory blackmail, and diversity
- Dumb and Dumberer?
- Trade War
- ACLU Off Course
- Nuclear Plans and Privacy
- Rigid federal mandates hinder privacy technologies
- Cato Unbound: Towards a Copyriot Act
- John Calfee on Government-Sponsored Innovation
- FCC Releases Broadband Data Order For Census-Tract Data
- Reporting from Broadband Policy Summit at BroadbandCensus.com
- The Kozinski Kerfuffle: Dueling Privacy Analogies
- Intel Antitrust: Trouble for All Tech Companies
- Social media and collective action
- Against Google/Yahoo! - I'm not Buying It
- Cellphone Hoax Popped
- Masnick on the Future of Copyright
- Our Exceptional First Amendment
- Abuse of Power? Competition Commissioner that Pushes "Smart Business Decisions"
- Tim Lee Capitulates to NY Attorney General; Ceases Posting Golden Girls Porn to Usenet Group
- AZ Legislature: No to REAL ID
- Cell Phone Contracts & Contradictions
- Copyright Podcast
- Victory for the First Sale Doctrine
- Meyerson on Zell: The Idiocy of Equating Media Reinvention to Terrorism
- New York AG pressures ISPs to cut off Usenet access
- Internet Safety - Good Approach and Bad Approach
- Sovereign Wealth Funds - Nothing to See Here, Move On
- Ending The War on File Sharing Doesn't Mean the End of Copyright
- Michael Powell and Reed Hundt Find Their Inner Politico
- Exclusive Handset Prohibitions: Should the FCC Kill the Goose that Laid the Golden iPhone?
- File-sharing at Cato Unbound
- The Future of News
- Seasteading
- Google CEO Says the Future Belongs to ‘Cloud Computing’
- ID Checks are About Control, Not Security
- Zuneral
- FCC targets long-term service plans
- Media Reform Now About Internet, Not Broadcast Ownership, says Free Press
- Orin Kerr: Not an Empty Vessel and Not Responsive to my Point
- What's Worse Than Rigged Auctions & Internet Censorship? How About Both in One Package!
- Sirius-XM: Day 445
- Swire on Cybercrime Underenforcement
- Cuban on bandwidth hogs and tiered broadband
- A "Technology Sabbath" to Alleviate Info Overload?
- Libertarians for Patent Trolling
- Overstock Sues to Overturn Overreaching New York Sales Tax Law
- Profiles in Innovation
- Yes, I'm Secretly 12 Years Old
- Registered Capture
- Debugging the Pledge of Allegiance
- Google, California's Privacy Policy Law & Our Sci-Fi Future
- Freedom is Diversity
- Carriers Begin Metering Bandwidth… BroadbandCensus.com Will Be Measuring It!
- Welcoming Berin Szoka to the TLF
- Should Google Link to Its Privacy Policy From Its Homepage?
- CEO: Microsoft-Yahoo Will Bring Competition to Media Business
- Metering Bandwidth and Stopping Fraud
- Spectrum and the Specter of Central Planning
- The DMCA's Safe Harbor Applies to Websites
- Imagine There's No Fair Use
- Princeton Paper on Government Transparency
- Digital Inclusion About More Than Connectivity, Says One Economy CEO
May 2008
- Check Out Melissa Ngo and "Privacy Lives"
- Kerr Defends the Third-Party Doctrine
- FCC Localism Rules: A “Tax on Blackness”?
- This Account is Suspended
- Viacom sues YouTube for $1Billion, but then what?
- Google, the NAB, and a Third Way in ‘White Spaces’ Debate
- Is There an Openness-Bandwidth Trade-off?
- Hitting the Reset Button after an Info-Free Vacation
- Interviews
- Pirate Radio
- Wiki-gov, special interests, and wiki-regs
- Guest-Blogging at the Atlantic
- UK Libertarian Party: My 'Car Crash'
- Autodesk vs. the First Sale Doctrine
- Overstock.com Pulls its New York Ads to Avoid Expanded (and likely Unconstitutional) Sales Tax
- Odds and Ends of Research--Mostly Odds
- Analysis of Potential Google-Yahoo! Transaction
- Headline Writers' Lacking Literary Knowledge
- What Will They Think of Next?
- Defining 'Anticompetitive'
- Autodesk Smackdown
- What is ConnectKentucky exactly?
- Tunneling your way around ISP traffic manipulation
- Cellphones, Freedom and the Cuban Embargo
- Fun with Headlines
- Build a Better Mousetrap
- The ACLU and Media Hysteria
- This Is Getting Out of Hand
- Let There Be Light
- Reversing the Course of a River
- Lessig's orphan works proposal still unworkable
- Copyrights, Patents, and Trade
- Everiss on Kids, Government, and Grand Theft Auto
- Network Neutrality Podcast
- Peer-to-Patent Video
- Building Exits into CFTC Regulation
- Video Game Platform Competition
- Why Are Some Muni WiFi Experiments Failing?
- Does Money Ruin Everything?
- Don't Bother to "LifeLock" Yourself
- Wireless Substitution: Some New CDC Numbers
- "The Most Powerful Computer Ever"
- The Rise & Inevitable Fall of Tech Giants
- How Net Neutrality Could Sabotage Healthcare Tech
- Who's Best at Lobbying 2.0?
- No More Intellectual Giants?
- Navel-Gazing
- The Pirate's Dilemma
- In Re Bilski
- Tom Lee on Software Patents
- Felten on the Future of News
- Where is the FCC's Annual Video Competition Report?
- Culture Clash on the Future of News
- Forbes on "Making Social [Networking] Sites Safer"
- Future of News
- Math You Can't Use
- From Indep Women's Forum--Update on Rights
- Future of News
- my debate with Zittrain on NPR-Boston
- Selling out Online Advertising
- New York's Ambitious Sales Tax Law -- Broader than Amazon and the Internet?
- L-1: The Technology Company in Your Pocket
- Some people are never happy
- Missing Emails at Ars
- Will they age-verify the Pope?
- REAL ID Deadline Passes - Zero Compliance
- Intrinsic Motivation and Free Software
- Turning the Page on Newspaper Ownership Rules: New Paper from Heritage
- sensible thinking on TV sports contracts
- latest FTC "secret shopper" survey shows improving ratings enforcement
- Intellectual Ventures: A Reductio of the Patent System
- Comcast to move to bandwidth cap / metering solution?
- need help... How many blogs are there out there?
- Larry Magid on Age Verification
- More on the OECD Broadband Report
- embedded Scribd presentations... just awesome
- Free Software vs. the Tax Man
- Tracking Your Race and Your Politics
- Fair Trade: Does it Work
- Shape of Libertarian IP Debate: Moebius Strip
- OECD vs. SpeedTest
- Virginia points the way on Internet safety
- Obama on Grand Theft Auto and personal responsibility
- When gamers go mainstream
- What's pointless about fun?
- Floppy disk humor
- Ideology
- The Singing Revolution - Held Over Another Week
- Substance, Procedure, Enforcement... Offspring
- Patents and the Poor--Notes from Abroad
- Upcoming Event: See South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford Make Sense of the REAL ID Act
- End-to-end and the Price Mechanism
- Insulting Our Intelligence
- Are the threats to online free speech real?
April 2008
- On The Shape of the Libertarian "IP" Debate
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 22): TW spin-off of cable unit
- Yale / CFP's "9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration"
- Larry Lessig, Demagogue?
- Thoughts on Apple, MBA's, and Distribution
- George W. Bush's Lost Emails
- Selective Quotation in the Sydnor Paper
- Do video games create cop killers?
- Free Culture and Libertarianism, Again
- Headline of the Day
- Amateurs Study Cryptography; Professionals Study Economics
- Why both the Left & Right love media regulation
- Racist Shorts and Fair Use
- Grand Theft Auto: Masterpiece or Abomination?
- Insurance and Health Care
- Is the Patriot Act the Harbinger of a Police State?
- Devastating Ubuntu Review
- Do Not Track Registry Likely to Include Exemptions
- Tragedy of the Spectrum Commons?
- New orphan works bills introduced
- The History of Trade and Copyright
- Story on State Secrets in the Senate
- Manjoo on "Grand Theft Auto 4" hysteria
- More Broadband Progress
- Law Isn't Really "Law" Either
- Code, Law, and Spontaneous Order
- The Challenge of Architectural Changes
- ‘We’d Have Nothing To Do!’
- review: Dr. Kourosh Dini's "Video Game Play & Addiction"
- Settling Accounts, Part 2
- A Bill of Rights to enshrine Net Neutrality?
- Localism is the new Fairness Doctrine
- Internet Futurama: Hollywood Writers, Little Presidents, and Neutrality Regulation
- Students, Cyber-Bullying, & Online Free Speech
- NCSL Calls for Repeal of REAL ID
- Bruce Everiss on video game piracy
- Britannica Blog's excellent "Newspapers & the Net" forum
- ALF 5 in 60 seconds
- Video games, pro wrestling, and the politics of hypocrisy
- Averages Are Meaningless in an Expanding Market
- Justine Bateman, Net Neutrality & Celebrity Witnesses
- Lady Chatterley's Lover
- World IP Day on Thursday, the 24th of April
- Crovitz's Information Age
- No Intelligence Allowed
- ALF 5 Tonight!
- MN Gov. Pawlenty Supports National ID Law
- Hans Reiser: A Creep but not a Murderer?
- Sensors and Social Consequences
- What Did He Say?
- Games Google Plays: The Psychology of the Spectrum Auction
- a great pronking hearing
- Monster Cable Look Like Idiots
- Bad Data & Broken Databases at the FCC
- ALF 5: Free the Jefferson 1 Fundraiser!
- Change of Venue for ALF 5
- Beware of hot chicks offering chocolate bars
- Can the French really ban pro-thin websites?
- Techno Bashing
- Just sell off the D block?
- More on regulatory relief for telcos
- IPI's IP Day
- ALF 5 with Special Guest Brooke Oberwetter
- Dance, Dance Revolution
- More Free the Jefferson One
- Lessig and Corruption
- review: Kutner & Olson's "Grand Theft Childhood"
- Cartesian Theater
- If Ladies Can Knit on Plane Trips, the Terrorists Have Won
- another problem for the Zittrain thesis -- old people!
- Another digital transition? Cuban says yes
- The Perils of Mandatory Parental Controls and Restrictive Defaults
- Shall we censor newspapers "for the children"?
- IT Policy at Princeton
- What would we do without the FCC?
- Settling Accounts
- Dingel on FTAs
- ALR media regulation symposium Friday 4/18
- Can TLF embed videos?
- A Flood of Home-Grown Stupidity
- Bilski Briefs
- Where's the Trade?
- great piece on online behavioral marketing and privacy
- And the Prize for Best Reporting in a 19th Century Medium Goes to…
- the Wikipedia Wars continue
- Google's Bids
- Trademark and Search Terms
- Micropayments reconsidered
- Eroding Press Freedom Isn't An Iraq Withdrawal Plan
- Sunstein's "libertarian paternalism" is really just paternalism
- Twilight for TV Critics?
- Why Can't They Get Along?
- You Can't Make an Omelette without Breaking a Few Eggs
- Back To Spectrum Giveaways
- Chertoff on REAL ID - a Little Off on IT
- OOXML: The Integrity of a Standards Body
- Cleland: Google Took $7 Billion
- Superlative REAL ID Editorial
- presentation at PSU's conference on future of video games
- Obsessed by FISA? Don't forget CALEA!
- The Genesis of Unlicensed Wireless Policy
- Here Comes Clay Shirky
- More on the DataTreasury Patents
- Comcast
- Dumb Pipes, a Dumb Idea: Net Neutrality as 21st Century Socialism
- The OOXML Standard Brouhaha
- Me on ID
- Patenting the Cure for Cancer
- Should White Spaces be Unlicensed?
- "Spectrum Talk" blog
- Last Mile Problem SOLVED!
- I hate to say I told you so, but...
- Never Be Late Again: Google Announces "Custom Time"
March 2008
- Did You Read this in The Paper Today?: Biggest Drop Ever for Newspaper Revenue in 2007
- Public safety spectrum, here we go again
- DataTreasury's "Property Rights"
- The Poor, Beleaguered Patent Trolls
- Patents and the Small Inventor
- Quote of the Day
- Dancing On The Newspaper's Grave
- Apple, openness, and the Zittrain thesis
- Guerilla Fingerprinting
- Microsoft's Cross-Ideological Tech Summit
- I've Got Mine Pre-ordered
- Comcast-BitTorrent: A Triumph for Regulation?
- Google's Radical Burning Man Festival Roots
- Fear the Blog Post, Baker!
- Conflicts of Interest
- The Ridiculous Dance
- File-sharers Sneezing in the Salad?
- The House's Bloated FISA Bill
- Problem Solved
- Rate My Privacy Policy
- coverage from Tech Policy Summit
- Bebo, IP Addresses, and Infinite Workarounds
- Byron Commission (UK) report - initial thoughts
- Patent Reform Lite
- The New War on MP3s: EMI's Push to Ban Remote Music Storage
- Unclogging the 3rd Pipe
- Korean Subway TV vs. Failed Wi-Fi Schemes
- "Critical blow" for broadcasters in the ad market?
- The New Smoots OR Silicon is the New Steel
- Ike Elliott's "fiber vs. coax" series
- Google's excellent new online safety campaign
- The Newspaper Tailspin
- The Tech Works
- Palfrey on trends in global cybercensorship
- "Parental Controls and Online Child Protection" - Version 3.0 release
- Through the Looking Glass
- Tech Policy Summit this week
- New podcast: In Conversation
- Podcast!
- "Truth" online
- L-1 Acquires Digimarc ID Systems
- Open Platforms vs. Central Planning
- Lost Laptop Follies, Part 7: NIH Loses Health Records
- Rickrolling Now Passe
- review of Zittrain's "Future of the Internet"
- Short for File Servers
- Well Played, Google. Well Played.
- "Montana Wins REAL ID Standoff"
- Defeating a Defense of Data Mining
- Boaz on Freedom
- Lessig's "Change Congress" Announcement
- The Economic Value of Snake-Oil
- Stewart Baker: Light on Security and History
- Grad School Bleg
- The Foolishness of Andrew Keen
- Face (book) off
- Do you have the "S.I.G.N.S." of Net / video game addiction?
- Mitchell: JCT is Behind the Laffer Curve
- Monetary Policy Crashes the Party
- 1975 Betamax Promotional Video
- The conversation the Net enables
- Media Metrics: The Pictures!
- More Twitter talk
- Digging into the FISA Debate
- The Cybernetic Age
- Tibet, Technology & the Future of Freedom
- Supreme Court Will Hear Indecency Case
- Nominal Convergence: USTelecom Now "The Broadband Association"
- Media Metrics: The Series So Far
- Mermigas on the challenges facing traditional media
- CAN-SPAM Remains a Sideshow
- Yes, Wikipedia should take the money
- Video Games, Ratings & Transparency: A Response to Jerry Bonner
- So Much for Relying on Valleywag
- Joe Nacchio to Get New Trial
- Google and the NSA: A Non-Denial Denial?
- Tweet!
- Thoughts on 2008 “State of the News Media” report
- Money Isn't Everything
- A Short History of Wiretapping Abuse
- Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant
- Quote of the Day
- IDC's "Diverse & Exploding Digital Universe" report
- Think you've seen everything the Web 2.0 world has to offer?
- One Man's TSA Experience
- Same Old Song & Dance for Telecom & VoIP Regulation
- Intern at the New York Times
- New Hampshire to Telcos: Just Say "No" to Competition
- Internet Expert Andrew Odlyzko at George Mason Law
- Google: The End is Near!
- RateMyCop.com Enjoying Streisand Effect
- McCullagh on Mass Surveillance
- IT Protectionism
- Peer-to-peer is Just a Tool
- USA Today's story about the Martin FCC
- News Flash: Web Companies Collect Data!
- California Considers Rejecting REAL ID
- Defending America Through Telephone Subsidies
- Modularity and Spontaneous Order
- Kentucky Bill Targets Online Anonymity
- Lessig on "blowing up the FCC"
- Some books worth reading
- Watch-Listing Foolishness
- Computing "in the Cloud"? Not.
- US Air's Control Freakery
- Sweet, Sweet WiFi
- New Telecom Surveillance Whistleblower
- Microsoft Acquires Credentica
- Schneier on REAL ID
- Free Quasi-Socialist Culture?
- Those AWOL Libertarians
- I-Banks as Miniature Police States
- Freetards = Greedtards
- Young kids and rational messaging about online safety
- Debunking Rural Broadband Myths
- Health 2.0: A Promising Prescription
- $0.00 -- The Abundance of Nothing -- Free! vs. Free Culture
- Technologies of Freedom
- Notes from Clay Shirky on social media
- Politics Makes People Dumb
- New Paper on Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification
- Media Metrics #7: An Uncertain Future for Newspapers
- Wikipedia != Jimmy Wales
- Market failure in the sports programming market?
- Boom!
- Fun with Analogies
- Jon Fine's "Requiem for Old-Time Radio"
- RIP Gary Gygax
- "Concurrency modeling" for bandwidth / network management
- Rep. Markey’s Wireless Investment Prohibition Act
- Net gambling & online speech / commerce enforcement challenges in general
- Playmobil Airport Security
- Google offering free phone numbers & voice mail to homeless
- Onion News Network on the FCC's indecency "standard"
- welcoming Bret Swanson & Ryan Radia to the TLF gang
- Japan Does It, Too
- Net Neutrality Paper
- Building a Broadband Strategy and BroadbandCensus.com
- Random Science Video
- End Software Patents
- Media Metrics #6: The Video Revolution
- Lessig and the Fallacy of Composition
- Lessig vs. Harper
- Specifics Needed on Network Neutrality
- Schools are not Infrastructure
February 2008
- TCP/IP "More or Less by Fiat?"
- We Need the Money! Don't Politicize Foreign Investment
- REAL ID's Whirling Dervishes
- Path Dependence, Imperfect Markets, etc.
- Age Verification a Favorite in State Legislatures
- Putting online dangers in perspective
- Senator Collins Still Working to Preserve REAL ID
- Stanford / Google "Legal Futures Summit"
- Random Network Neutrality Bibliography
- Australian government online safety report
- Disgraceful defense: "Video Games Made Me Do It"
- Billboard Liberation
- Getting from Collective Intelligence to Collective Action
- The FCC in Boston--No Tea Party
- new Internet Safety Technical Task Force
- Mobile phone censorship regime coming?
- Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results of 2008 Election Early
- In Comcast vs. Verizon, Comcast is Down Two Counts
- Broadband For The People
- Which "blockhead" will produce this game once copyright disappears?
- The Specter of Copyism v. Blockheaded Authors
- Are All Video Games Violent?
- Dan Mitchell: Still Lookin' Good
- Google PHR - Better than HIPAA?
- Net Neutrality: Prelude to Structural Separation?
- Internet Sales Taxes and Fairness
- Online Sales Tax Cartel?
- Politics Online Conference - Reminder
- 2 good WSJ op-eds on net neutrality dangers
- The Struggle of Self-Motivation
- Martin: Greater Transparency by Broadband Providers
- What Part of FOREIGN Don't You Understand?!!
- Deregulation Used to Be a Liberal Idea
- Is InfraGard a Privacy Threat?
- Gates Admirable as Entrepreneur
- Radio to the People
- Network Neutrality == End-to-End Principle?
- Is John McCain Uncomfortably Close to Lowell 'Bud' Paxson?
- Lessig for Congress?
- Scalia on video game regulation
- All FISA, All the Time
- Happy Birthday, Sirius-XM
- "Building a Broadband Strategy for America"
- Psssttt Keith...
- Multimedia Me
- "Even the Cato Institute"
- Wow
- Lies, Damned Lies, and National Security
- Shift
- Markey's Bark Worse Than His Bite
- Leading pornographer lecturing Google & Yahoo about cleaning up online porn
- Was It Illegal or Not?
- TPW 36: The Markey bill, the politics of MS-Yahoo, and taxes on video games
- FISA Nonsense
- Coolest. Car. Ever.
- Self-contradictory Statement of the Day
- The NYT Gets It Right
- Folding Heart Card, Uncopyrighted
- Richard Bennett & George Ou filings on network management
- Business Travel Group Seeks Change to REAL ID
- FISA Flip-Flop
- Soghoian or AT&VerizoMicrosNexis: Who Knows Better How to Handle Data Breach?
- UK's "Unique Learner Number"
- PFF Filing on Network Management Practices
- What's Wrong With This Picture?
- Proliferating Technology Forces Government Transparency
- Winback Wars: The Politics of Customer Retention
- The Politics of FISA
- Criminal sanctions for poor parental judgment?
- 1,527 Carriers in BroadbandCensus; New Posts
- Look Mom, I'm on TV!
- Who decides what's appropriate for our families?
- New Mexico's video game nanny tax
- But Seriously, Secretary Chertoff's Warnings Against Complacency are Straw Men. What's Happening is that People are Getting the Threat of Terrorism in Perspective. This May Panic DHS Officials Because it Threatens Their Budget, But it's a Good Thing.
- A Public Service Announcement
- More Heat than Light
- Quote of the Day
- Gripe
- Two Pieces on Privacy
- The Packet-Switched Society
- Airport Security Technology Stuck in the Pipeline
- TPW 35: Network Management Redux
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 21): TW spin-off of AOL
- Felten on MS-Google antitrust games
- new PFF-CDT index of free speech / content bills
- Copyright and Football
- Fair Use?
- TorrentFreak on "Solutions to the BitTorrent Problem"
- Big Business vs. Regulation
- Small Non-Profits to Lose Tax-Exempt Status for Failure to File Nonexistent Form
- Political discourse -- then vs. now
- Yes We Can
- Taxation With Representation
- DHS Was Bluffing
- Fun with Regulation
- Sports Bar
- Media Metrics #5: The Competition for Our Ears
- Good for Obama: He favors parental empowerment over censorship
- Politics Online Conference - Comin' Up!
- Your Privacy vs. The Security They're Giving You
- Microsoft moves to buy Yahoo!
- FISA Podcast
January 2008
- (Telephone) Welfare As We Know It
- A La Carte Mandates & Price Controls
- Muni wi-fi: I hate to say I told you so, but..
- "Community Conscious" Internet Service Providers
- McCain for President?
- ACLU (Nor Cal) Fellowship Announced
- E-Verify: Slow and Unsteady in Arizona
- REAL ID: AAMVA Moving Money Around
- The White House Distorts, K-Lo Transcribes
- Border Chaos Starts Friday
- Tick, Tick, Tick
- Free Public Wi-Fi
- Media Metrics #4: Changing Fortunes
- Dan Mitchell Makes the Laffer Curve Look Good
- Big News
- Roger Pilon, Julian Sanchez ,and Me on FISA
- The Burkean Brake on Tech Revolution
- The Rhetoric of Property RIghts
- Believed to Have Assisted
- Senate Refuses to Be Railroaded
- Hazlett on the Microsoft Case at 10
- Peak IP?
- Google's political advertising guidelines
- Tech & State of the Union address
- The Purpose-Driven Organization
- FISA Extension Bill in House on Monday - How Would You Vote?
- Good REAL ID Opinion Piece in L.A. Times
- Public Opinion and Public Choice Lessons in the Brewing FISA Battle
- IPv6
- Better iTunes Killer: Antitrust or Amazon?
- Jack Bauer on GeoCities
- Bill Gates and John Mackey, Two Peas in a Pod
- Behavioral Marketing - Like or Hate it, but Regulate it?
- Google Caused My Rock Band Addiction
- Remembering how lucky we are
- Profiles in Courage
- Things I Never Knew about Telephones
- Bull's Blood and Revolution
- USA Today, age verification, and the death of online anonymity
- for Tim's reading list about the early telephone system...
- The Bell Patents
- Financial Predators
- A Core 9/11 Commission Afterthought
- Student free speech or online harassment ?
- Musings on Freedom of Cell Phone Contract
- Privacy Advocacy Overreach
- “The End of Censorship” -- The book I never finished
- Savage Fury
- Stockholm Network on Pharma IP & Developing Nations
- Patent Reform Legislation Update
- Media Metrics #3: Ad Wars
- Metcalfe's Law + Real ID = More Crime, Less Safety
- Should ISPs fingerprint?
- Gary Shapiro, the New Bear Grylls
- On the Opening of Google's New Public Policy Office
- MagHound: Another interesting new media business model
- Anti-spam Theater
- Upcoming events: "Tech Policy Summit" (March 26-28)
- Connect Kentucky Article Raises Bell Lobby Specter
- Media Metrics #2: Household Access to Media Services & Technologies
- Copyrights as Positive Natural Rights
- Time Warner to Test Metered Pricing
- Sometimes It's Rational to Move to New York
- The Danger of "The Danger of Free"
- Broadband metering experiment in the works in Texas?
- New site: OpenRegulations.org
- Media Metrics #1: Introduction & Analytical Framework
- Yoo Makes Padilla's Case Against Yoo Look Good
- DHS: Require REAL ID for Prescriptions
- Who will defend the little guy? Who?
- Bruce Schneier Runs an Open Wireless Network
- Rhode Island Reacts to Hannah Montana Hype
- Public Service Announcement
- Memo to Facebook...
- Only in France...
- Cloud Computing Conference
- Today’s MySpace-AG Agreement
- Data Security for Me But Not for Thee
- Has IT had it?
- Heritage Pro-National-ID Event - Must See!
- Digimarc Promoting National ID
- New York's Idiotic Ban on Geiger Counters
- When Web 2.0 Meets Politics
- AFF January Roundtable: "Don't Be Evil": Privacy in the Age of Google
- REAL ID Regulations Issued
- Industry tech policy blogs proliferating
- While the FCC wages a war on cable...
- FOSI's "State of Online Safety Report 2008"
- Sarkozy: Tax the Internet for TV's sake
- ISPs Aren't "Editors"
- Dan Rather and the Ego Hall of Fame
- Ron Paul
- Post pulls CD to iPod story About RIAA
- Does Akamai Violate Network Neutrality?
- Jack Thompson: Video Games Inspire Violence
- Heritage Foundation Event Promoting National ID
- New Hampshire Gives Net Neutrality a Big "Huh?"
- Why Discuss Free Software?
- Yoo on Network Neutrality and Broadband Concentration
- Against "Autonomous Driving"
- Big Brother Speed Control
- R.I.P. Frontline Wireless?
- Change at the National Association of Broadcasters