For the last 353 days, I've been part of a team planning Internet Research 10.0 – Internet: Critical, the 10th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). My life is about to get back to normal, as an…
Read More IR.10 Internet: Critical (or, why the blog has been slow lately)
The Call for Papers for Internet Research 10.0 - Internet: Critical, the 10th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), has been released: Call for Papers Internet Research 10.0 - Internet: Critical The 10th Annual International and Interdisciplinary…
A collection of information and communication companies, advocacy groups, and academic centers have announced the formation of the Global Network Initiative, aimed at protecting free expression and privacy on the Internet on a global scale. From the announcement: In an…
Read More Global Network Initiative Promises to Protect Privacy and Freedom of Expression Online
The 10th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from October 7-11, 2009. The conference theme will be "Internet:Critical", providing a space for interdisciplinary researchers to reflect on, describe, interrogate, challenge, and…
Read More Announcing IR.10 Internet:Critical (Milwaukee – 2009)
On the heels of the recent Pew study concerning cloud computing and privacy, Consume Reports has released a poll revealing that most Americans are very concerned about what is being done with their personal information online. Some highlights: 72% are…
Read More Poll Reveals Amercians are Concerned about Online Privacy, but Grossly Misinformed
Similar to the Yale Information Society Project's "9.5 Theses" and CFP's "Letter to the Next President," the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has created an issue document targeted to the next President and Congress: "The Internet in Transition: A…
I'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…
Wired 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…
Is 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,…
With 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…
MichaelZimmer.org 
You must be logged in to post a comment.