The New York Times has an editorial today on the issue that companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft help the Chinese government not only filter out search results that they want to censor, but also help track down the individuals…
Category: Information Ethics
Ethics of Blogiarism
There's been quite a bit of discussion lately across the blogosphere on "blogiarism," the practice of cutting and pasting content from one blog onto your own without any link, attribution, editing or commentary in order to drive readers to your…
Should Search Engines Help China Filter & Track Searches?
Dan Solove points to this Salon article that reveals how Google, Yahoo and Microsoft help the Chinese government not only filter out search results that they want to censor, but also help track down the individuals engaging in criticism and…
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danah boyd on the Seigenthaler-Wikipedia Controversy
danah boyd has an excellent post on the recent Seigenthaler-Wikipedia controversy, focusing particularly on the academic community's response: What pissed me off more was how the academic community pointed to this case and went “See! See! Wikipedia is terrible! We…
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Governments Tremble at Google’s Bird’s-Eye View
The New York Times finally picks up on this discussion about how some governments are concerned over the detailed images of sensitive sites Google Earth makes available to the public.
The Value Implications of Paid Search
PSU information science scholar Jim Jansen was guest editor for a special issue of the Bulletin for the American Society for Information Science and Technology on the practice of paid search. Jim was kind enough to ask me for a…
What if Google Enabled FOIA Requests?
I'm attending the "Regulating Search?" symposium hosted by the Yale Information Society Project today. The first panel was on "The Search Space," and Robin Sloan, co-producer of the (in)famous "EPIC 2014" movie on "the future history of media," posed an…
Panel: Don’t Be Evil: Political, Culture and Ethical Aspects of Google
NYU's Department of Culture & Communication (my department) is holding its annual Graduate Student Conference on November 11, 2005, where I will be on a panel on Google: Don't Be Evil: Political, Culture and Ethical Aspects of Google Google has…
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Let Wikipedia Write Your Next Paper
According to News.com, Esquire writer AJ Jacobs put a badly written and error ridden article on Wikipedia and let the Wikipedian community have at it. Within days, the article had received hundreds of edits, was cleaned up, proof read and…
Push for the “Perfect Search”
There's been quite a push lately for what I'm calling the "perfect search" - a search engine that is personalized, local, implicit, predictive, etc. This is something I will be writing more about soon, especially whether there will be room…
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