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In a few days I'll be heading off to the Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems in Ann Arbor, MI. This is the inaugural institute, and from the looks of things it is going to be great. In preparing for the event, we've...

Compared to some people, I probably appear to be an extreme consumer of information. I follow a few hundred RSS feeds, 60-odd people on Twitter, belong to more listservs than I should, and so on. Compared to others - say uber-bloggers Robert Scoble or..

News has moved quickly since Wednesday's ruling by Judge Louis Stanton in Viacom et. al. vs YouTube et. al., the landmark ruling ordering the transfer of all YouTube user histories. Foremost, Google has indicated it will not appeal the ruling ,...

In a decision catastrophic to digital privacy rights, a federal judge has ordered that Google turn over the video-consumption histories of all YouTube users . The order , which represents the decision of Judge Louis Stanton in the ongoing YouTube et....

This fall I'll be teaching a new course - its title keeps evolving, but we'll be looking at the technologies and processes we use to mediate relationships online. The course will be held Monday evenings, from 6-8:30 in Manning 307. Apparently...