New legislation being considered in Congress would prevent US companies from aiding the censorship and surveillance operations of repressive foreign governments. The Global Online Freedom Act (GOFA), sponsored by Chris Smith (R-NJ), would track foreign Internet monitoring and blocking efforts under a new Office of Global Internet Freedom and would prevent US tech firms from [...]

A new study by Future Source Consulting reports that 1/3 of US residents have copied a DVD in the past six months. This number, high as it is, might not be surprising. What is surprising is how little action the television and film industries (at least in comparison to the recording industry) have taken in [...]

Larry Lessig’s generous review of the Future of the Internet makes an interesting point:
“Whether a single event, or a coordinated event, whether intentional, or accidental, it is simply a matter of time before a catastrophic network event happens. And when it happens — think of it as a kind of i9/11 event, but the bad [...]

Techcrunch is reporting that Facebook has poached Elliot Schrage from Google as its new VP of Communications and Public Policy, and that one of Elliot’s jobs will be to manage the Facebook development platform, where outsiders can write code to run on Facebook — from the bitten-by-a-vampire app to Scrabulous.
Techcrunch speculates that this reflects a [...]

The new iPhone was released today at AT&T and Apple stores around the country. For people who missed the phone the first time around, or who didn’t want to pay $599 and a two-year contract, or who just really want a GPS system, this may be important. But for developers, the new iPhone won’t change [...]

Tom Standage of the Sunday Times makes an interesting point in his review of The Future of the Internet:
“Zittrain insists that generativity at the code level is the most important kind, but it is not clear that this is really under threat. In the early days of home-computing, most enthusiasts learnt the essentials of programming. [...]

The Silicon Alley insider is reporting that would-be iPhone application developers — at least those who aren’t well connected — can be waiting up to six months to be accepted into the Apple iPhone developers’ program. 

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to the June 17 ‘08 Colbert Report, including those who switched away from the last quarter of the Celtics championship.
Here’s a direct link to the video.
Is it geo restricting, i.e. are there some who can’t view it because of location?  If so we can look for an additional source.

Wired just published a short Q&A about my forthcoming book. I thought I’d share a little bit more of the argument in the meantime, since it’s awfully hard to get across a book’s worth of argument in just a few hundred words of a Q&A — which, of course, was much longer before it [...]