Comcast cutting deal with BitTorrent
Comcast announced today that it will work with BitTorrent to treat the P2P traffic equally. (See here for the announcement) However, though Comcast said it will no longer (by the end of the year)...
View ArticleHas the Web Increased Corporate Responsiveness?
Adobe has vowed to modify its new Photoshop terms of service in response to user complaints regarding a particular term that gave Adobe a non-exclusive license to each user photograph uploaded to the...
View ArticleLive Blogging Lessig on Change Congress
6:31 More Questions. Why not a pledge for lobbyist? Pledge to give information but not money. This is a good idea and Larry seems to like it as well. How do you protect this organization from abuse and...
View ArticlePolitics and open source
One of the readings for today talked of the great potential of applying the Linux open source model to political campaigning. Is the open source model really different? Here’s an article describing the...
View ArticleIs the Web different? And should teaching be objective?
I’m in the slightly awkward position of having blogged some thoughts about the overall question of whether the Web is different, and about how we might talk about this during the last class. It’s...
View ArticleMore on Internet Campaigning
Some of our discussion in class last week reminded me of this article in Rolling Stone. The article discusses some of the techniques that Obama’s campaign is using, including novel uses of the web....
View ArticleNational Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force
The FBI has established a cyber-security division focused on protecting the United States against cyber-security threats to fundamental networks. The details are incredibly fuzzy – all we know is that...
View ArticleMore blocking than we thought?
This report says it’s not just Comcast blocking Bittorrent. Of course, it comes from Vuze, a company that makes a Bittorrent client…
View ArticleCan PR Save the Beijing 2008 Olympics?
“Can PR Save the Beijing 2008 Olympics?” This blog usually covers a number of the topics that came up during our class discussion with DW on Astroturfing and Marketing “Conversations” and this whole...
View ArticleA Human Rights Web Difference
This is an interesting story on CNN right now. A UC Berkeley grad student was arrested while attending an anti-government rally in Cairo and used a Twitter message to to tell his friends. They then...
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