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BlogsTags > lawFour short links: 20 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 20, 2013 Our Fair Deal — international coalition (EFF, InternetNZ, Demand Progress, Creative Freedom Foundation, many others) raising awareness and petitioning lawmakers to reject copyright proposals that restrict the open Internet, access to knowledge, economic opportunity and our fundamental rights. (via Susan … Four short links: 10 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 10, 2013 The Remixing Dilemma — summary of research on remixed projects, finding that (1) Projects with moderate amounts of code are remixed more often than either very simple or very complex projects. (2) Projects by more prominent creators are more generative. … Four short links: 6 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 6, 2013 Nautilus — elegantly-designed science web ‘zine. Includes Artificial Emotions on AI, neuro, and psych efforts to recognise and simulate emotions. A Short Essay on 3D Printing — This hands-off approach to culpability cannot last long. If you design something to … Four short links: 26 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 The Engagement Cliff — Gallup surveyed nearly 500,000 students in grades five through 12 from more than 1,700 public schools in 37 states in 2012 and found that by the time students get to high school only about 4 in … Let’s do this the hard wayBy Edd DumbillMarch 27, 2013 Recent discoveries of security vulnerabilities in Rails and MongoDB led me to thinking about how people get to write software. In engineering, you don’t get to build a structure people can walk into without years of study. In software, we … SCOTUS “first sale” ruling a big win for everyone but content publishers and software makersBy Jenn WebbMarch 20, 2013 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kirtsaeng dba Bluechristine99 v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. yesterday, upholding the “first sale” doctrine in the case of copies of copyrighted materials lawfully made outside the United States. O’Reilly GM and publisher Joe … Four short links: 20 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 20, 2013 Digital Music Consumption on the Internet: Evidence from Clickstream Data (Scribd) — The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European … Four short links: 14 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 14, 2013 Our Weirdness is Free (Gabriella Coleman) — Often lacking an overarching strategy, Anonymous operates tactically, along the lines proposed by the French Jesuit thinker Michel de Certeau. “Because it does not have a place, a tactic depends on time—it is … Four short links: 7 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 7, 2013 Pharmacovigilance — Signals from The Crowd (PDF) — in the NY Times’ words: Using automated software tools to examine queries by 6 million Internet users taken from Web search logs in 2010, the researchers looked for searches relating to an … Four short links: 4 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 4, 2013 Life Inside the Aaron Swartz Investigation — do hard things and risk failure. What else are we on this earth for? crossfilter — open source (Apache 2) JavaScript library for exploring large multivariate datasets in the browser. Crossfilter supports extremely … Four short links: 13 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 13, 2013 CA Assembly Bill No. 292 — This bill would provide that the full text of the California Code of Regulations shall bear an open access creative commons attribution license, allowing any individual, at no cost, to use, distribute, and create … Privacy in the Online Ecosystem: Obligations and Best Practices Are EvolvingBy Alysa HutnikFebruary 8, 2013 At the end of 2012, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) hosted the public workshop, “The Big Picture – Comprehensive Online Data Collection,” which focused on privacy concerns relating to the comprehensive collection of consumer online data by Internet service providers … Four short links: 29 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 29, 2013 FISA Amendment Hits Non-Citizens — FISAAA essentially makes it lawful for the US to conduct purely political surveillance on foreigners’ data accessible in US Cloud providers. [...] [A] US judiciary subcommittee on FISAAA in 2008 stated that the Fourth Amendment … Four short links: 22 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 22, 2013 Design Like Nobody’s Patenting Anything (Wired) — profile of Maker favourites Sparkfun. Instead of relying on patents for protection, the team prefers to outrace other entrants in the field. “The open source model just forces us to innovate,” says Boudreaux. … Four short links: 21 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 21, 2012 Amazon’s Product Development Technique — the product manager should keep iterating on the press release until they’ve come up with benefits that actually sound like benefits. Iterating on a press release is a lot less expensive than iterating on the … Four short links: 11 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 11, 2012 Burrito Bomber — drone that delivers burritos. (via BoingBoing) Copyright Hardliners Adopt the Language of Reform — Sadly, in the end, Barnier’s “copyright fit for the Internet age” looks depressingly like the current, dysfunctional version: one based on a non-existent … Four short links: 31 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 31, 2012 Turing Complete User — General Purpose Users can write an article in their e-mail client, layout their business card in Excel and shave in front of a web cam. They can also find a way to publish photos online without … Four short links: 25 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 24, 2012 Stewart Brand Interview (Wired) — full of interesting tidbits. This line from the interviewer, Kevin Kelly, resonated: One other trajectory I have noticed about the past 20 years: Excitement about the future has waned. The future is deflating. It is … Four short links: 16 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 17, 2012 Aaron Swartz Defense Fund — American computer systems are under attack every day of the week from foreign governments, and the idiot prosecutor is wasting resources doubling down on this vindictive nonsense. Baghdad Community Hackerspace Workshops (Kickstarter) — Makerspace in … Four short links: 14 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 14, 2012 Post Lingo — automatically transcribe incoming emails from foreign tongues. (via Brian McConnell) All Briefs Should Now Be in Comic Book Form — does wonders for mass audience acceptance of the arguments. (via Andy Lester) Magic Carpet Can Detect and … Four short links: 10 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 10, 2012 The Disturbing, Unchecked Rise of the Administrative Subpoena (Wired) — With a federal official’s signature, banks, hospitals, bookstores, telecommunications companies and even utilities and internet service providers — virtually all businesses — are required to hand over sensitive data on … Four short links: 4 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 4, 2012 Visual Strategies — book of useful tips for improving visualisations, described as “a useful Tufte”. (via NY Times) Copyright Enforcement Bots Killed Hugo Streaming (io9) — automated content policing ‘bots killed the live stream, and uStream wouldn’t bring it back. … Four short links: 3 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 3, 2012 The Seductive Allure of Edu-Tech Reform (Chris Lehmann) — While it may be seductive to think that rooms of children on computers, each following some computerized instruction at their pace, monitored by school aides, with a handful of teachers around … Four short links: 30 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 30, 2012 TOS;DR — terms of service rendered comprehensible. “Make the hard stuff easy” is a great template for good ideas, and this just nails it. Sick of Impact Factors — typically only 15% of the papers in a journal account for … Hawaii and health care: A small state takes a giant step forwardBy Ann WaldoAugust 21, 2012 In an era characterized by political polarization and legislative stalemate, the tiny state of Hawaii has just demonstrated extraordinary leadership. The rest of the country should now recognize, applaud, and most of all, learn from Hawaii’s accomplishment. Hawaii enacted a … Four short links: 6 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 6, 2012 HM Government Consultation on Modernising Copyright (PDF) -- from all appearances, the UK Govt is prepared to be progressive and tech-savvy in considering updates to copyright law. Proof of the pudding is in the eating (i.e., wait and see whether the process is coopted by maximalists) but an optimistic start. Cisco Provides a Lesson (Eric Raymond) -- This is... Copyright and "intellectual disobedience"By Mac SlocumJune 18, 2012 "Sita Sings the Blues" creator Nina Paley explains her "intellectual disobedience" stance on copyright and notes that current copyright laws are "completely out of touch with human behavior." Copyright and "intellectual disobedience" 
By Mac SlocumJune 18, 2012 "Sita Sings the Blues" creator Nina Paley explains her "intellectual disobedience" stance on copyright and notes that current copyright laws are "completely out of touch with human behavior." Four short links: 13 June 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJune 13, 2012 Warren Buffett Lessons -- nice anthology of quotes, reordered into almost a narrative on different topics. (via Rowan Simpson) Silent Circle -- Phil Zimmermann's new startup, encrypting phone calls for iPhone and Android for $20/month. "I'm not going to apologize for the cost," Zimmermann told CNET, adding that the final price has not been set. "This is not Facebook.... Passage of CISPA in the U.S. House highlights need for viable cybersecurity legislationBy Alex HowardApril 27, 2012 The passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives has raised grave concerns about is potential effect on digital privacy and civil liberties. Passage of CISPA in the U.S House highlights need for viable cybersecurity legislation
By Alex HowardApril 27, 2012 The passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives has raised grave concerns about is potential effect on digital privacy and civil liberties. Four short links: 23 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 23, 2012 How's That Three Strikes Thing Working Out? (Paul Brislen) -- The rights holders in New Zealand put together an ad campaign based on the destruction of value of New Zealand content, yet it hasn’t defended a single New Zealand artist. USTR Telling You Where To Stick Your Data -- A number of US companies had expressed concerns that various... Four short links: 13 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 13, 2012 Change the Game (Video) -- Amy Hoy's talk from Webstock '12, on being contrary and being successful. Was one of the standout talks for me. Rise4Fun -- software engineering tools from Microsoft Research. (via Hacker News) Why Obama's JOBS Act Couldn't Suck Worse (Rolling Stone) -- get ready for an avalanche of shareholder suits ten years from now, since... Four short links: 4 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 4, 2012 Typing Club -- lessons to improve your touch-typing, building you up letter by letter to speed and mastery. Like how I learned, only without the typewriters and the bibs and the roomful of girls. It wasn't easy being the only boy in typing class, but somehow I managed. (via EdTech ideas) SQL Injection via HTTP Headers -- excellent introduction... Four short links: 3 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 3, 2012 Why Our Kids Should Be Taught To Code (Guardian) -- if we don't act now we will be short-changing our children. [...] their world will be also shaped and configured by networked computing and if they don't have a deeper understanding of this stuff then they will effectively be intellectually crippled. They will grow up as passive consumers of... FTC calls on Congress to enact baseline privacy legislation and more transparency of data brokers
By Alex HowardMarch 27, 2012 The FTC's consumer privacy report recommends Congress pass a strong consumer privacy law that provides rules of the road for entities that deal with sensitive data. FTC technologist Ed Felten offered common sense privacy guidance for startups and entrepreneurs. FTC calls on Congress to enact baseline privacy legislation and more transparency of data brokersBy Alex HowardMarch 27, 2012 The FTC's consumer privacy report recommends Congress pass a strong consumer privacy law that provides rules of the road for entities that deal with sensitive data. FTC technologist Ed Felten offered common sense privacy guidance for startups and entrepreneurs. Four short links: 14 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 14, 2012 Lessons Learned from a Blended Learning Pilot -- the end-of-pilot report from using Khan Academy for 80-90% of class time. Most interesting is the growing feeling that K.A.'s value comes from analytics on exercises and not the videos: The students greatly preferred working through the problem sets to watching the videos. Students turned to their peers, the hint, and... Four short links: 5 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 5, 2012 Pirates Adopt H.264 -- no more XViD encoded avi files, now it's x264. I'm impressed by the rigid rules and structure of The Scene. YouTube's ContentID Disputes Are Judged By The Accuser (Andy Baio) -- the last couple years have seen a dramatic rise in Content ID abuse, using it for purposes that it was never intended. Scammers are... Four short links: 27 February 2012
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 27, 2012 Open Science Requires Open Source (Nature editorial) -- Our view is that we have reached the point that, with some exceptions, anything less than release of actual source code is an indefensible approach for any scientific results that depend on computation, because not releasing such code raises needless, and needlessly confusing, roadblocks to reproducibility. What's Still Wrong With ACTA... Four short links: 14 February 2012
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 14, 2012 Why I Hate The STOCK Act (Clay Johnson) -- an attempt to reform insider trading within government, but because Congress exempts itself from substantial penalties then it has little effect where it's needed most. We won't see change on the issues that matter to us (copyright, due process for Internet takedowns, privacy, etc.) while the lawmakers are distracted by... Four short links: 3 February 2012
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 3, 2012 Page Speed (Google Code) -- an open-source project started at Google to help developers optimize their web pages by applying web performance best practices. Page Speed started as an open-source browser extension, and is now deployed in third-party products such as Webpagetest.org, Show Slow and Google Webmaster Tools. What Commons Do We Wish For? (John Battelle) -- trying to... Four short links: 27 January 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 27, 2012 Data Jurisdiction -- information from the NineFold hosting company in Australia. Has some Aussie-specific content, but would be great to see this internationalized. (via Lachlan Hardy) Anatomy of an Idea (Steven Johnson) -- people who think the Web is killing off serendipity are not using it correctly. Lovely glimpse at how he works, chasing trails of ideas down and... Four short links: 26 January 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 26, 2012 Every Day, More iPhones Sold Than Babies Born -- Malthusian explosion of iPhones predicted once there's an iPhone-to-3D-printer dongle. (via Luke Wroblewski) No Safe Harbour -- a collection of political essays, texts, and discussions that help explain and educate about Pirate Party positions. Available for purchase or free download, natch. (via BoingBoing) Patagonia Roadtests New Sustainability Legal Status --... Four short links: 11 January 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 11, 2012 Virtual Sweatshops Defeat CAPTCHAs -- I knew there was an industry around solving CAPTCHAs (to spam comments on blogs, sign up for millions of gmail accounts, etc.) but this is the first time I've seen how much you can be paid for it: employees can expect to earn between $0.35 to $1 for every thousand CAPTCHAs they solve [...]... Four short links: 6 January 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 6, 2012 shim (GitHub) -- a node.js-based browser-compatibility tool that lets you synchronize several devices/browsers and surf the same pages simultaneously on all of them. Useful, of course, for the painful business of ensuring browser compatibility of web apps. (via Tom Armitage) Moore's Law Squared -- John D. Cook found this great note in In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman which... What happens when an old law is updated for the digital age?By Jenn WebbDecember 21, 2011 The '80s-era Video Privacy Protection Act had the unintended consequence of inhibiting consensual sharing of video viewing habits. Attorney Dana Newman weighs in on updated legislation. An open response to Sen. Blumenthal on Protect IP and SOPABy Mike LoukidesNovember 30, 2011 SOPA and Protect IP are proposing remedies to copyright violation that never come under the scrutiny of the legal system. Intellectual Property Strategy: a book, a panel, and a movementBy Andy OramNovember 23, 2011 The speakers, who included household names of the free culture movement such as Lawrence Lessig and Eric von Hippel, emphasized the culture shift that is breaking the seemingly iron grip of current policies that favor wealthy companies with portfolios of patents and copyrights. But I think even these speakers failed to convey how huge a sea change in underway. Intellectual Property Strategy: a book, a panel, and a movement
By Andy OramNovember 23, 2011 The speakers, who included household names of the free culture movement such as Lawrence Lessig and Eric von Hippel, emphasized the culture shift that is breaking the seemingly iron grip of current policies that favor wealthy companies with portfolios of patents and copyrights. But I think even these speakers failed to convey how huge a sea change in underway. 1 to 50 of 110 Next Stay Connected
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