I wrote up a few thoughts on Google’s announcement of its new Chrome operating system, designed to permit near-instant booting of a PC or other device to … a Web browser, and essentially only a Web browser. The piece can be found here, and below: Google and Microsoft are now officially fighting over you. They [...]
Twitter only allows 140 characters per tweet. The founders explain that they expected interconnection with mobile phone text messaging — SMS — from the start, and that it could be expensive to have longer tweets broken into mutiple messages when people pay per SMS. As Dom Sagolla explains: Messages longer than 160 characters (the common [...]
One less examined piece of what’s going on in Iran this week goes beyond the use of Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms — beyond what people can do with a basic browser. And that’s the role of the humble PC — the personal computer, whether Windows, Mac, or GNU/Linux. What makes the PC so crucial [...]
This blog isn’t that active — I haven’t quite figured out the right rhythm, and what should count as blogworthy enough to post. The past couple days have been active, though, with the events unfolding in Iran. I’m part of OpenNet, which tracks Internet censorship around the world, and we just released an update to [...]
We’ve just released our OpenNet Initiative 2009 study of Internet censorship in Iran, including new data from the most recent rounds of testing there. We’ll try to augment some of the findings there with data coming in over the past few days, including reports to the Herdict Web network blockage tool. If you’re finding there [...]
That’s the question Andrew Sullivan asks as part of his blog’s extraordinary coverage of the events now taking place in Iran. The NYT has a story out with a roundup of the use of social media during the crisis, while Publius at Obsidian Wings worries that Twitter can be blocked just like any other service. [...]
My brother Jeff, who loves music more than I love the Internet, just played in a Bob Dylan tribute show, and there’s now video available: I was sorry to be on the wrong coast for it. I’ll be visiting at Stanford again this fall — a great piece of West Coast life for me is [...]
I was asked to give the commencement talk at my old high school this year. I wrote it out ahead of time, so figured I’d share it here –
Larry Lessig wrote the epic Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace ten years ago. Cato is marking the anniversary with a debate at Cato Unbound. Declan McCullagh’s lead essay is here. My response is here, and below.
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