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…
Category: Platforms
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…
A Google Login?
(via Google Blogoscoped)Google's recent meeting with market analysts introduced the possibility that Google might create a "Premium" service which could require the creation of user accounts to access some of its tools:Google is likely to require its users to begin…
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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Is Google Making People Smarter?
(via TechDirt)Ed Gottsman wonders if Google is becoming a mental prosthetic and making people (especially kids) smarter:To the extent that intelligence consists of having a large memory, Google (and the other search engines) is certainly making people smarter. It's more…
Search Engines – Their Politics; Their Logics
I'm part of a panel submission to the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR). The panel is titled "Search Engines - Their Politics; Their Logics":Search engines today seem to afford the only access point…
Beal on Users Confusing Natural and Paid Search Engine Results
Andy Beal at Search Engine Lowdown notes this report of the Pew Internet and American Life Project's study which suggests that only 18% of search engine users can tell the difference between paid and natural search engine results. Beal seems…
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The Onion on Google
(via Search Engine News)Google makes it into the Onion with this satirical look at their future plans.
Automobile Viruses and DSRC
Bruce Schneier links to a report that speculates how Lexus automobiles might be vulnerable to computer viruses transferred via cell phones.(Techdirt has more, too)The concern seems to be that as cars become more and more dependent on computers, they become…
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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