March 2, 2006 – MichaelZimmer.org

John Sexton’s Wikipedia Article

Posted by Michael Zimmeron March 2, 2006in Information Ethics, Internet

I was quoted in today's Washington Square News about recent edits to NYU President John Sexton's article on Wikipedia. Since the recent labor disupte with the Graduate Student Organizing Committee, various additions were made to Sexton's page that, IMO, violated…

Google moving search records out of China

Posted by Michael Zimmeron March 2, 2006in Information Ethics, Search Engines1 Comment

At Monday's panel on “The Ethics and Politics of Search Engines”, Peter Norvig, Google's director of research, stated that Google is moving the databases they keep of Chinese searches outside of the country in order to prevent China's government from…