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Net Neutrality: Why You Should Care
What is net neutrality? It’s the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all traffic equally, not giving preferential treatment to certain users, types of data, or equipment. With FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on the way out, nominee Tom Wheeler … Continue reading
Great Gatsby, Copyright, and the Public Domain
Is the Great Gatsby in the public domain? The book was written in 1925 and Fitzgerald passed away in 1940. Copyright generally expires 70 years after the author’s death, so you could be forgiven for thinking the answer is “yes.” If … Continue reading
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Tagged books, copyright, culture, data, economics, education, entertainment, fun, hacker politics, history, how-to, internet politics, law, legislation, literature, micro-institutions everywhere, movies, nerd, online politics, politics, public opinion, rhetoric, SOPA, technology
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Python for Political Scientists, Spring 2013 Recap
This spring Josh Cutler‘s Python course was back by popular demand. (This time it was known as “Computational Political Economy” but I like the less formal title.) I participated this time around as a teaching assistant rather than student, and … Continue reading
Ruby’s Benevolent Dictator
The first version of the Ruby programming language was developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto, better known as “Matz,” in 1995. Since then it has become especially popular for web development thanks to the advent of Rails by DHH. A variety of … Continue reading
Hackers vs. Diplomats
Katherine Maher’s Foreign Policy piece got a lot of (deserved) attention last week. If the topic interests you, go read the whole thing. I’ll highlight the parts that are most relevant to our recent conversations on internet politics. On the … Continue reading
The Economist on Internet Politics
On Monday I gave a round-up of my posts on internet politics over the past year or so. Recently The Economist wrote a similar review. It is worth reading in full if this topic interests you. In this post we … Continue reading
UN to Decide the Political Future of the Internet
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) got its start in 1869. Back then it was known as the International Telegraph Union. Samuel Morse’s invention was less than 40 years old then, and the modern nation-state was only a couple of decades … Continue reading
What is the Right Level of Internet Crime?
Removing dangers and annoyances comes with costs. Catching every single person who breaks the speed limit would cost far more than it is worth to prevent accidents, for example. Recognizing this trade-off, we look for the “sweet spot” (or for … Continue reading
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Atwood on Internet Communities and Politics
Jeff Atwood, creator of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, has collated some of his best blog posts into an ebook. The “Stack” sites are question-and-answer fora, often with valuable, timely feedback. In “The Vast and Endless Sea,” Atwood describes the … Continue reading
Can Open-Source Techniques ‘Fix’ Politics?
Clay Shirky (of Here Comes Everybody notoriety) says yes: After giving a kind of whirlwind tour of the open-source movement in his talk, including the rise of Linux, Shirky devoted much of his discussion to Github — a kind of … Continue reading
