There's been a lot of talk lately about Google's offer to donate bandwidth and servers to Wikipedia. John Dvorak at PC Magazine provides helpful commentary, warning that the "nice guy" attitude of Google might not last forever:...let's say that Google…
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ChoicePoint Data Stolen By Imposters
MSNBC reports that criminals posing as legitimate businesses have accessed critical personal data stored by ChoicePoint. ChoicePoint collects information from public records (they have contracts with at least 35 federal agencies to share data with them) and then combines it…
Search Warrants in the Era of Digital Evidence
GW Law professor Orin Kerr has posted a draft of his new (and important) paper "Search Warrants in an Era of Digital Evidence." Here is the abstract:This Article contends that the legal rules regulating the search warrant process must be…
Wikipedia
I've been thinking about Wikipedia quite frequently lately, mainly due to a colleague who is crafting his dissertation around an investigation of the collaborative nature of decision making and consensus on what consistutes "knowledge" within the Wikipedia community. It will…
CFP: The Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Dimensions of Search Engines
Received this CFP today from Eszter Hargittai: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Special Issue on The Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Dimensionsof Search Engines Guest Editor:Eszter HargittaiNorthwestern UniversitySearch engines are some of the most commonly accessed Web sites online. Millions of…
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Origins of Cyberspace auction
(via Nettime-L)Jeremy Norman, Northern Californian book dealer, has the world's largest private collection of rare and one-of-a-kind manuscripts, essays, and ephemera relating to the birth of the Internet, from the earliest papers on difference engines to the first digital-computer patents.…
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