June 24th, 2009 | by zittrain | published in Future of the Internet, twitter | 8 Comments
Twitter only allows 140 characters per tweet. The founders explain that they expected interconnection with mobile phone text messaging — SMS — from the start, and that it could be expensive to have longer tweets broken into mutiple messages when people pay per SMS. As Dom Sagolla explains: Messages longer than 160 characters (the common […]
June 18th, 2009 | by zittrain | published in Book, Future of the Internet, iran cyberwar | 5 Comments
One less examined piece of what’s going on in Iran this week goes beyond the use of Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms — beyond what people can do with a basic browser. And that’s the role of the humble PC — the personal computer, whether Windows, Mac, or GNU/Linux. What makes the PC so crucial […]
June 18th, 2009 | by zittrain | published in Future of the Internet | 2 Comments
This blog isn’t that active — I haven’t quite figured out the right rhythm, and what should count as blogworthy enough to post. The past couple days have been active, though, with the events unfolding in Iran. I’m part of OpenNet, which tracks Internet censorship around the world, and we just released an update to […]
June 16th, 2009 | by zittrain | published in filtering, Future of the Internet, opennet initiative | 1 Comment
We’ve just released our OpenNet Initiative 2009 study of Internet censorship in Iran, including new data from the most recent rounds of testing there. We’ll try to augment some of the findings there with data coming in over the past few days, including reports to the Herdict Web network blockage tool. If you’re finding there […]
June 16th, 2009 | by zittrain | published in Future of the Internet, university, wikipedia | 1 Comment
…on Star Trek, Charlie Brown, and Wikipedia: (Text available here.)
