By Yvette Wohn Creative Commons held a special panel and fundraiser on Friday featuring Board Chairman James Boyle, Stanford professor and CC founder Larry Lessig, CEO Joichi Ito, and former Executive Director Molly S. Van Houweling. The event kicked off with HLS Dean Elena Kagan announcing Lessig’s return to Harvard (in fall 2009) and an […]
By Yvette Wohn Megan Meier (13) met Josh Evans (16) on MySpace, the online equivalent of malls for teenagers in the 21st century. After months of flirting, Josh “broke up” his relationship with Megan. “This world would be better without you,” he wrote. Megan fled upstairs to her room in tears; her mother later found her […]
[by Yvette Wohn] Rising security problems are painting a very dark picture for the future of the Internet. The New York Times recently published an article noting the rise of malicious software. This software, known as malware, is installed in one’s computer– in many cases, without the user’s knowledge. It then uses that computer and […]
By Yvette Wohn Opening the refrigerator to get some eggs for breakfast, I was surprised to find a strange apparatus built into one of the shelves. “What the…” “It’s a power juicer,” the refrigerator said, “I know you like fruit, so I decided to install this last night.” “Wow, that’s very considerate of you, but […]
By Yvette Wohn In the United States, we sometimes tend to forget about how grateful we are to the First Amendment; the freedom of speech. Not many people may stop to think that for all accusations of evildoings, the current government has never tried to ban websites with funny pictures of George Bush or stories […]
By Yvette Wohn Joel Tenenbaum was one of thousands, perhaps millions of teenagers. When he was 17, he allegedly downloaded seven songs from the Internet using a peer-to-peer file sharing program called Kazaa [Both parties appear to agree this is a downloading case, not (solely) an uploading case like many of the others]. Now, 10 […]
By Yvette Wohn After much anticipation and fanfare, the Android made a wobbly debut. A security flaw was discovered just days after it was released and users discovered some fine print that gives Google more power than originally anticipated. Despite these problems, critics are still optimistic about the Android because it encourages generativity. Android is an […]
By Yvette Wohn The 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 other than playing Wii games. It took a step even further, creating different regional and country codes and […]
