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This site has been archived and will not be updated further. Jonathan Zittrain’s new personal website is accessible at https://blogs.harvard.edu/jzwrites/

Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It

— The book is available to download under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 license: Download PDF.

— The book can be viewed in an experimental html format courtesy of Yale University Press and the futureofthebook.org people. (The format is experimental; html is probably safely thought of as in full production as this point.) Each paragraph can be annotated: Visit html site.

— Tony Curzon Price at OpenDemocracy is leading a group annotation of the book at Diigo.

— Improbulus has created a PRC e-book version for PDAs.

— Amazon has enabled search-inside-the-book: Visit Amazon version.

— Google Books

Future of the Internet Blog

  • A novel way of defending against mass uses of our data
    • AI is getting better at performing mass categorization of photos and text. A developer can scrape a bunch of photos from, say, Facebook -- either directly, likely violating the terms of service, or through offering an app by which people ...
  • Should the director of OPM be fired over its massive data breach?
    • I participate in a regular poll by the Christian Science Monitor on Internet policy topics.  This week's question was about the recent data breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management: As you can see, most people said yes.  I count myself ...

Blog Archives

 

@alexstamos @Pinboard RRVS is a good idea. I hope assigning it an RFC number wasn't the kiss of death. Always seemed to me that the Postal Service should enable people to write an email address on an envelope for physical delivery. Just need a way to allow for lossiness in handwriting.

About 38 minutes ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web Client

@alexstamos @Pinboard Why not just arrange to tie it to an email address or naked domain name?

About 48 minutes ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

What counts as left, right, and center is rapidly evolving given the right’s rightward lurches, but in any case I follow and learn from many of the people on this list — and from Will. twitter.com/saletan/status…

Yesterday from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@rmchase This goes to an application rather than a description. Is there another link?

About 4 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

Security status quoism, a.k.a. “ticking PHP time bomb.” Soon a majority of all Internet web sites will be running server software that’s no longer tended with security updates. There appears to be little groundswell to upgrade. zdnet.com/article/around…

About 6 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

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