In 1996, a physicist named Alan Sokol published an article in Social Text, a cultural studies journal.  It was called “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,” and as the name suggests, it’s pretty impenetrable.  You can check it out here.  Soon after it came out, he published an article in the […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt created buzz (and some shock and criticism) when he suggested in a recent Wall Street Journal interview that, in the not too distant future, “every young person…will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media […]

There’s some movement in the U.S. network neutrality debates under a rather dry heading: “Further Inquiry Into Two Under-Developed Issues in the Open Internet Proceeding.” So far: a couple weeks ago Google and Verizon announced a “legislative framework proposal” to “preserve the open Internet and the vibrant and innovative markets it supports, to protect consumers, […]

This week there’s an online symposium at Concurring Opinions about the Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It. I’ll be blogging there; in the meantime here’s my opening entry.

Last week the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Reverb Communications, a firm that describes its business as a: … full service videogame agency that provides public relations, marketing, and sales services through one integrated campaign to the interactive entertainment and music industry.  Using precise messaging and calculated marketing campaigns, we are able […]