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1930 common carriage
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Susan Crawford blog
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2008-07-09
The FISA news is not good - the Senate has approved a revision that drastically reduces judicial oversight [CDT] and is riddled with “loopholes so large that the feds could drive a truck loaded down with purloined civil liberties through it” [ArsTechnica]. ===== Disheartened, I’d rather write about a nice article by Warren Jefferson Davis in the [...] |
Modding and the “brutal economics” of video games
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2008-07-09
How lame is it that I find the game I want to play next through an academic talk at Berkman? My colleague Shenja van der Graaf studies the culture of game modding, the practice of customizing a game to make it more enjoyable, to make a political or artistic point, or to create an entirely new [...] |
Battling over clouds
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Susan Crawford blog
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2008-07-08
More than 40 years ago, the FCC was worried about telephone companies using their power over communications to control the then-nascent (and competitive) data processing marketplace. The Bell System at that point was already banned from providing services that weren’t common carriage communications services (or “incidental to” those communications services). In Computer 1, the Commission [...] |
IPv4 Address Transfer Markets: The time has come
Milton Mueller
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IGP Blog
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2008-07-08
What happens when the Internet addresses run out? That question has been generating growing concern among Internet operators and policy analysts. The problem is fundamental to the future of the Internet. This blog post is part of a paper that evaluates a transitional policy that Internet governance agencies are considering as a response to the depletion of the IPv4 address space. In particular, it focuses on proposals to allow organizations holding IPv4 addresses to sell address blocks to other organizations willing to buy them. IP address transfer markets, as they are called, have been proposed as a pragmatic way to extend the life of the legacy IP address space. |
It costs more
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Susan Crawford blog
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2008-07-07
In Ann Arbor, Michigan, the “regional duopoloy” story of internet access seems to prevail. It’s AT&T or Comcast. I applied online for AT&T DSL, and for most of the process I was convinced that they were going to let me buy internet access *without* having an AT&T landline phone. No go. Little red type showed up [...] |
The Fallacy of Examples, and the problems of extrapolating from media
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2008-07-03
David Weinberger has an intriguing post up today about the “Fallacy of Examples“. He’s reacting to a column from Nick Kristof in the New York Times titled “The Luckiest Girl“, which recounts the story of Beatrice Biira, a young woman from Uganda whose improbable journey through Connecticut College began with the donation of a goat [...] |
Polymeme: Architecting the way out of echo chambers?
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2008-07-02
My friend Evgeny Morozov is one of the most insightful technology journalists working today, writing for The Economist, BusinessWeek and Le Monde. (That’s what I think even on weeks where he hasn’t written extremely kind things about my projects.) His blog, dominated by long lists of consistently interesting bookmarks, is one of my few daily [...] |
New Journalism Vocabulary Words: Newsprint Trims and Access Points
noreply@blogger.com (Rob Frieden)
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TeleFrieden
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2008-07-01
My local newspaper has reduced its value proposition by cutting content and pages. Local managers of this McClatchy asset use the term “newsprint trims” to label the streamlining process. In an email conversation with the Executive Editor I leaned that another benefit from such trimming is that readers and I will have additional “entry points” to the paper, despite the fewer pages. |
Maybe We All Should Be Economists
noreply@blogger.com (Rob Frieden)
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TeleFrieden
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2008-07-01
I recently had the opportunity to attend the 17th biannual conference of the International Telecommunications Society; see http://www.itsworld.org/Montreal2008/. The conference attracts academics, practitioners and consultants, with economists predominating. Attending a conference of this sort showcases the strengths and weaknesses of economists. I marvel at their confidence. Perhaps that comes |
GNSO Reform: a Window into ICANN's Soul
Milton Mueller
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IGP Blog
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2008-06-30
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GV Summit: Elections and citizen media
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2008-06-28
If you’re not with us here in Budapest, please join us on the video stream. All the coverage is archived, which means that if you’ve got a very dull weekend planned, you could spend at least 20 hours with us. If you’ve got a bit less time, but read Spanish, El Pais is here to [...] |
top ten things lawyers should know about Internet research: #9
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According to the Best Available Data
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2008-06-27
k[beginning of top ten list] #9: The news is not all bad: there is a reason everyone wants to be connected to all the world’s knowledge — as well as each other — besides its status as the most powerful complex system ever created by man. The Internet’s [...] |
Global Voices Summit: The Open Net Initiative and internet censorship
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2008-06-26
We’re off and running at the Global Voices Summit in Budapest, Hungary. Depending on how you’re counting, this is a two day or a five day meeting. Two days of the meeting - tomorrow and Saturday - are open to the general public and will be a conversation first on free speech online, then on [...] |
Will ICANN move to control routing security?
Brenden Kuerbis
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IGP Blog
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2008-06-25
Replying to ICANN's draft 2009 Operating Plan and Budget, the Security and Stability Advisory Committee submitted comments last week vying for its piece of the estimated $60 million ICANN revenue pie. But the interesting story is not the dollar amounts requested by SSAC, rather their request for a specific line item for "Management of certificates for the addressing system (RPKI)." This request to put ICANN in the middle of controlling routing security raises many governance issues. |
ICANN Paris: a revealing exchange
Milton Mueller
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IGP Blog
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2008-06-25
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ICANN Tuesday
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Susan Crawford blog
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2008-06-24
This is Constituency Day. The members of the ICANN Board roam around going to meetings. Right now I’m in the meeting between the Governmental Advisory Committee and the ICANN Board. It’s a big, echoing room with a huge horseshoe seating arrangement and many many microphones. Government representatives speak slowly and calmly - they have lots [...] |
lulu for magazines?
sebastian mary
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if:book
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2008-06-23
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PDF: Citizen Media - left, right, left, right…
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2008-06-23
I’m not much of a political blogger, unlike many of the folks at the Personal Democracy Forum conference. (Okay, that’s not true. I just write about African politics, not US issues, which puts me decidedly in the minority in this room.) So I wasn’t familiar with either Jane Hampshire of Firedog Lake, a left-wing blog, [...] |
Any Link Between Telecom Capacity Swaps and Flipping Oil Contracts?
noreply@blogger.com (Rob Frieden)
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TeleFrieden
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2008-06-23
Not so long ago employees at Enron and at numerous telecom firms learned a financially lucrative lesson: there was (is?) more money to be made in swapping capacity than in delivering it. Indeed there was plenty more money available if traders could collectively create artificial bottlenecks and shortages. My takeaway from that experience: if traders can manipulate electrons delivering electric |
ICANN Monday
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Susan Crawford blog
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2008-06-23
The public participation page is here: http://par.icann.org It’s clear to me that Kieren McCarthy and Paul Levins are doing all they can to make it easy for people to follow what’s going on - including, on Wednesday, making the scribes’ feed (the scrolling text of what’s being said) available. This morning Eric Besson, a French Minister [...] |