This is important.

Maybe it’s just because I read this article while swilling down my morning coffee, but it literally got my heart pounding. Essentially, Siva is sketching the outlines of a new academic field – Critical Information Studies – that exists at the intersection of many others, from ComSci to the classical social sciences to law [...]

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Symposium Notes, somewhat delayed

So, I spent much of last weekend at the UMich Library’s Symposium on Digitization – “Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects” – and I had to take notes for my internship. It was truly exhausting – ended up typing 30 pages’ worth of notes, all told [...]

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More Geeky Fun

How did I ever live without BoingBoing to provide me with giggles and warm-fuzzies to get me through the day? First it’s Cory Doctorow sending fruit baskets to Google, then crazy-ass judges making highly entertaining use of Billy Madison…and now, it’s Isolatr.
Perhaps it’s just because I go to a school where “Social Computing” is [...]

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Judges can be funny

Last fall, I knew I was becoming a tech law geek when I couldn’t stop laughing reading the Supreme Court’s opinion in Reno v. ACLU. That opinion was fairly early in the life of the WWW, and was thus stuck in the position of having to define much of the terminology and mechanics of [...]

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Someone get that man a functional metaphor

There are some books whose intense popularity I simply cannot fathom. A prime example of this: Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat, which I am being made to choke down for my “Development and Future of the Internet” class.
Don’t get me wrong; I see why it might have been assigned. The topics it [...]

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