Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Frontline: Growing Up Online
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008I’m sitting in a hotel room in New Haven, trying to finish an article for First Monday, but then I received a call from my wife suggesting I turn on PBS, as Frontline is airing an amazing report on “Growing Up Online.” It is a thoughtful treatment of the topic that, in their words, “takes […]
Which ISPs Are Spying on You?
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007Wired has posted the results of their survey of the major ISPs regarding their tracking and data retention policies. I’ve created a table summarizing the results:
How long do you retain records of the IP addresses assigned to customers?
Do you store URLs of the websites that people visit?
Do you allow marketers to see anonymized or partially […]
US high-speed Internet is…slow
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007Is this the inevitable consequence of privatizing access to the NSFNet backbone? From Press Esc:
The average broadband download speed in the US is only 1.9 megabits per second, compared to 61 Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in South Korea, 18 Mbps in Sweden, 17 Mpbs in France, and 7 Mbps in Canada, according (PDF) to […]
Upcoming Events
Friday, May 11th, 2007With the dissertation completed (the defense still awaits), I can now turn my attention to a few other projects for the summer months. Primary among them is finishing up a book collecting various interdisciplinary research papers on Web search engines I’m editing with Amanda Spink.
Also on the summer agenda are two exciting workshops. First, I’ll […]
University Professor Chastised For Using Tor
Thursday, February 8th, 2007Here’s a chilling first-person account of a university professor who was asked to stop using the anonymizing network software, Tor. University IT and campus security staffers came knocking on Prof. Paul Cesarini’s door asking why he was using Tor, and requested that not only he stop using it himself, but also that he not teach […]
Entrenchment of Non-Privacy Norms Online
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006Gaia Bernstein, an Associate Professor at Seton Hall University School of Law (and guest blogger over at Law & Technology Theory) has a thoughtful post about how particular diffusion characteristics made the Internet vulnerable to the establishment of what she calls “non-privacy norms.” She writes:
I believe two diffusion characteristics made the Internet vulnerable to this […]
Web Search: Multi-
disciplinary Perspectives