October 2009
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WatchWhen will you get your glorified body?
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“Email: Be concise and to the point. Don’t make emails longer than they should...”
– The Art of Manliness - Guide to being a gentleman in 2008
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Reminder: Coase’s FCC at 50 Event Tomorrow →
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Free: Philip Glass Sample Album →
21 tracks for $0.
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Against faith in government
In the last issue of The New Republic, Lawrence Lessig published the unfortunately titled article “Against Transparency.” In it he criticizes what he calls the “naked transparency movement.”* The article has drawn several responses, with Ellen Miller and Michael Klein’s being the best and most direct. I’d like to offer a libertarian perspective.
Lessig’s...
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Interpol (5)
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Against faith in government →
A libertarian critique of Lawrence Lessig’s argument the “naked transparency” that justifies public cynicism about politics.
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Regulatory “buckets” are back →
In its proposed net neutrality rules, the FCC seeks to create a new regulatory classification for “managed services,” but such classification rarely works.
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Recovery.gov verdict: half-baked →
The newly released raw stimulus spending data on Recovery.gov leaves much to be desired. This is not the unprecedented transparency we were promised.
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Recovery.gov verdict: half-baked
Last month I wrote about the imminent release of raw stimulus spending data and said that the jury was still out on the Obama Administration’s transparency pledge. Well, we’re now pretty close to a verdict, and it’s not good.
On Thursday, Recovery.gov added reports from the recipients of stimulus dollars—contractors and grantees explaining what money they got, what...
Event Oct. 29: Coase's FCC at 50
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Ronald Coase’s seminal article, The Federal Communications Commission. Coase’s critique of the political allocation of radio spectrum, and his arguments for achieving efficient allocation by allowing the government to sell rights to the spectrum, has had a profound effect on the course of communications policy.
While Coase’s ideas have...
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Michael S. Sawyer on user-generated content, fair... →
Michael S. Sawyer, a fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, discusses the impact of the DMCA on user-generated content. The discussion also turns to the principle of fair use and competing solutions for dealing with copyright infringements on user-generated content sites.
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My top 5 artists this week. →
Interpol (2)
The Shins (2)
The Cars (2)
Radiohead (1)
Franz Ferdinand (1)
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“Guessed the trivia question at the coffee shop. Won a free biscotti. Humbled.”
– adamisacson
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WatchMoore: Government doesn’t work, so we need more government. (via kirby.)
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Wu (2006) is right on Google Books Search →
Is a monopoly necessary to build an online library of orphan and out-of-print books? Tim Wu disagrees with himself.
Wu (2006) is right on Google Books Search
In his latest Slate column, Tim Wu endorses a modified Google Books Search settlement because he fears that without such a deal—through which a giant like Google gets a de facto monopoly—we will never see an online library that includes orphan works and out-of-print books. He writes:
Books in strong demand, whether old (Dracula) or contemporary (Never Let Me Go), are in print and...
