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Conferences, ISP, Reputation systems, Social media, Web 2.0 »

[28 Nov 2007 | One Comment | 547 views]

Just a friendly reminder that the Reputation Economies in Cyberspace symposium hosted by the Yale Information Society Project is coming up (my original post on the symposium is here). It is being held on December 8, 2007 at Yale Law School in New Haven , CT.
Spots are still available, but filling up quickly. You can register here, and we’ve added a new discounted student registration fee of $45.
I hope to see many of you there!

Blogging, Google, Privacy »

[28 Nov 2007 | One Comment | 606 views]

In more chilling news, it has been reported that Google reached a settlement with a group of Israeli council members and will voluntarily turn over the IP address of a blogger accused of slander to a court overseeing the case. From the report:
For more than a year, the anonymous blogger slandered three Shaarei Tikva councilmen: local council chairman Gideon Idan, Shaarei Tikva director general Haim Blumenfeld and council member Avi Yokobovich. The blogger accused the men of criminal acts, such as pretending to be handicapped in order to receive discounts …