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Washington Post political ads database
Sharon Black
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CommPilings
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2008-05-07
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700 MHz Update: Will VZ comply with the rules?
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Susan Crawford blog
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2008-05-05
Last Friday (HT: IPDemocracy), Google filed a petition [PDF] asking that the Commission ensure that Verizon understands what those “open platform” requirements for the C Block really mean. Verizon has taken the position in the past that its own devices won’t be subject to the “open applications” and “open handsets” requirements of the C Block [...] |
Stealth Deregulation
Rob Frieden
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TeleFrieden
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2008-05-02
Wireless carriers in the United States and elsewhere appear to have come up with a clever new strategy to achieve deregulation: assume that it exists even in the absence of official agency action. Unlike the doubtful ploy of “think and grow rich,” carriers need only assume an outcome and act as though it has occurred. Absent contradiction by a regulatory agency or court the deregulatory |
CFP08
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Susan Crawford blog
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2008-04-29
The Yale Information Society Project recently posted its 9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration: 1. Privacy. Protect human dignity, autonomy, and privacy by providing individuals with control over the collection, use, and distribution of their personal information and medical information. 2. Access. Promote high-speed Internet access and increased connectivity for all, through both government [...] |
How to study surveillance
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2008-04-29
Chris Conley leads one of the most difficult research projects we’ve undertaken at the Berkman Center - the surveillance study of the Open Net Initiative. Over the past five years, the good folks at ONI have gotten very smart about how the internet is filtered in nations around the world. What’s much less clear is [...] |
Homophily, serendipity, xenophilia
Ethan
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...My heart's in Accra
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2008-04-25
There’s been a small but fascinating blog conversation going on surrounding the term “homophily”. Journalism and media critic Amy Gahran encountered the term in an interview I and Solana Larsen gave with Chris Lydon of Radio Open Source and explored the concept in an extended riff and a set of bookmarks. Tom, an educator living [...] |
FISA
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Susan Crawford blog
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2008-04-25
eWeek reports that House Republicans are planning to force a vote on the Senate’s version of the FISA amendments - the version that would guarantee retroactive immunity to the telcos that cooperated with the NSA. (Here’s a useful CRS report comparing the House and Senate bills more generally.) Someone suggested today that I go back and read [...] |
.ORG pushes forward with DNSSEC
Brenden Kuerbis
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IGP Blog
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2008-04-25
In early April, Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted a service proposal announcing its intention to begin offering secure DNS extensions in the 4th quarter of 2008, and seeking to amend its registry contract with ICANN. If approved by ICANN, .ORG would likely be the Internet’s first secure production gTLD zone. One interesting wrinkle is PIR's proposed language regarding data escrow of DNSSEC related data, specifically key material. PIR's request is another testament to the strength of a distributed, and not centralized, approach to DNSSEC. |
This week in the white spaces
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Susan Crawford blog
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2008-04-24
The battle lines are being drawn: [Only a] licensed approach to new services in the TV bands white spaces would provide accountability and regulatory certainty to stakeholders and best protect incumbent users from harmful interference. (FiberTower Corporation and the Rural Telecommunications Group, Inc.) We are concerned with the potential effectiveness of devices that rely solely on spectrum sensing [...] |
Future of Reputation
Sharon Black
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CommPilings
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2008-04-24
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International Radio and Television Broadcasts
Sharon Black
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CommPilings
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2008-04-23
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top ten things lawyers should know about Internet research: #7
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According to the Best Available Data
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2008-04-23
[beginning of top ten list] #7: The traditional mode of getting data from public infrastructures to inform policymaking — regulating its collection — is a quixotic path, since the government regulatory agencies have as much reason to be reluctant as providers regarding disclosure of how the Internet is engineered, used, and financed. For every [...] |
top ten things lawyers should know about Internet research: #6
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2008-04-22
[beginning of top ten list] #6: While the looming problems of the Internet indicate the need for a closer objective look, a growing number of segments of society have network measurement access to, and use, private network information on individuals for purposes we might not approve of if we knew how the data was being [...] |
top ten things lawyers should know about Internet research: #5
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2008-04-20
[beginning of top ten list] #5: Thus the research community is in the absurd situation of not being able to do the most basic network research even on the networks established explicily to support academic network research. This inability to do research on our own research networks leads to unresolvable contradictions in our field of “science”, including [...] |
top ten things lawyers should know about Internet research: #4
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2008-04-20
beginning of top ten list #4: The data dearth is not a new problem in the field; many public and private sector efforts have tried and failed to solve it. Information Sharing and Analysis Centers, such as those that exist for the financial services industry have been attempted several times, but there is no research [...] |
top ten things lawyers should know about Internet research: #3
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2008-04-19
[beginning of top ten list] #3: Despite the methodological limitations of Internet science today, the few data points available suggest a dire picture: We’re running out of IPv4 addresseses that can be allocated (there are many allocated addresses that are not in observed use, but there is no policy support (yet) for reclamation or reuse), [...] |
Net neutrality debate spreads to Europe
Milton Mueller
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IGP Blog
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2008-04-17
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top ten things lawyers should know about Internet research: #2
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According to the Best Available Data
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2008-04-17
[continued from yesterday] #2: Our scientific knowledge about the Internet is weak, and the obstacles to progress are primarily issues of economics, ownership, and trust (EOT), rather than technical. Economically, network research is perpetually behind network evolution — basic instrumentation can increase in cost 10X with one network upgrade, while network research budgets are [...] |
top ten things lawyers should know about Internet research: #1
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2008-04-16
last year Kevin Werbach invited me to his Supernova 2007 conference to give a 15-minute vignette on the challenge of getting empirical data to inform telecom policy. They posted the video of my talk last year, and my favorite tech podcast ITConversations, posted the mp3 as an episode last week. i clearly [...] |
Content Analysis Using Digital Newspaper Archives
Sharon Black
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CommPilings
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2008-04-16
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