http://futureoftheinternet.org Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:14:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://futureoftheinternet.org/glossary/comment-page-1#comment-10094 Oregon Declares State of Emergency to Pass Online Voter Registration | Joey Mornin Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:23:04 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?page_id=26#comment-10094 [...] When Washington opened its online voter registration, I co-founded a project called Your Revolution. It was mainly a Facebook application that let you register to vote directly from Facebook. We registered about 6,000 new voters in Washington through Facebook. It was a drop in the bucket compared to the 280,000 new voters registered in Washington for the 2008 cycle, but it’s a glimpse at how online voter registration can be a Very Good Thing for civic engagement. Most of those new voters were under 24. (It surely freaks out some people that a cabal of college students with laptops handled several thousand voter registrations, especially in a state where some elections hung on a few hundred votes. But that’s what makes the internet great. And it’s why we need to protect the generative web.) [...] [...] When Washington opened its online voter registration, I co-founded a project called Your Revolution. It was mainly a Facebook application that let you register to vote directly from Facebook. We registered about 6,000 new voters in Washington through Facebook. It was a drop in the bucket compared to the 280,000 new voters registered in Washington for the 2008 cycle, but it’s a glimpse at how online voter registration can be a Very Good Thing for civic engagement. Most of those new voters were under 24. (It surely freaks out some people that a cabal of college students with laptops handled several thousand voter registrations, especially in a state where some elections hung on a few hundred votes. But that’s what makes the internet great. And it’s why we need to protect the generative web.) [...]

]]> http://futureoftheinternet.org/glossary/comment-page-1#comment-3022 Yvette Wohn : Privacy issues with nTAG @ EmTech Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:49:57 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?page_id=26#comment-3022 [...] suppose this is the kind of tethered technology that Jonathan Zittrain warns about. True, this gadget is easier to carry than a thick booklet (the [...] [...] suppose this is the kind of tethered technology that Jonathan Zittrain warns about. True, this gadget is easier to carry than a thick booklet (the [...]

]]> http://futureoftheinternet.org/glossary/comment-page-1#comment-1227 Blogroll » Tethering the Wii Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:02:53 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?page_id=26#comment-1227 [...] Wii game console is a perfect example of what the book describes as tethered technology. In designing the architecture of the Wii, Nintendo did not want users to use the Wii for purposes [...] [...] Wii game console is a perfect example of what the book describes as tethered technology. In designing the architecture of the Wii, Nintendo did not want users to use the Wii for purposes [...]

]]> http://futureoftheinternet.org/glossary/comment-page-1#comment-1224 Tethering the Wii :: The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:42:08 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?page_id=26#comment-1224 [...] Glossary [...] [...] Glossary [...]

]]> http://futureoftheinternet.org/glossary/comment-page-1#comment-794 Privacy issues with nTAG @ EmTech « Arctic Penguin Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:09:08 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?page_id=26#comment-794 [...] suppose this is the kind of tethered technology that Jonathan Zittrain warns about. True, this gadget is easier to carry than a thick booklet (the [...] [...] suppose this is the kind of tethered technology that Jonathan Zittrain warns about. True, this gadget is easier to carry than a thick booklet (the [...]

]]> http://futureoftheinternet.org/glossary/comment-page-1#comment-119 Global Online Freedom Act: Governments Can’t Protect Freedom by Themselves :: The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:48:11 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?page_id=26#comment-119 [...] Glossary [...] [...] Glossary [...]

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