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.)
June 15th, 2009 | by zittrain | published in Future of the Internet, Generativity | 32 Comments
That’s the question Andrew Sullivan asks as part of his blog’s extraordinary coverage of the events now taking place in Iran. The NYT has a story out with a roundup of the use of social media during the crisis, while Publius at Obsidian Wings worries that Twitter can be blocked just like any other service. […]
June 12th, 2009 | by zittrain | published in Future of the Internet | Comments Off on Musical interlude
My brother Jeff, who loves music more than I love the Internet, just played in a Bob Dylan tribute show, and there’s now video available: I was sorry to be on the wrong coast for it. I’ll be visiting at Stanford again this fall — a great piece of West Coast life for me is […]
May 6th, 2009 | by zittrain | published in Future of the Internet | 3 Comments
Larry Lessig wrote the epic Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace ten years ago. Cato is marking the anniversary with a debate at Cato Unbound. Declan McCullagh’s lead essay is here. My response is here, and below.
April 17th, 2009 | by zittrain | published in Future of the Internet | 9 Comments
Facebook boasts more than 200 million active users, with an astounding 100 million logging in at least once per day. Its prominence is not just in numbers of users. It’s what they do: many share intimate and sensitive details about themselves. That not only means that the service is susceptible to privacy panics (both real […]
April 2nd, 2009 | by zittrain | published in cybersecurity, Future of the Internet | 2 Comments
The Washington Post has reported that the U.S. Congress will shortly take up a bill to “empower the government to set and enforce security standards for private industry for the first time.” Today’s conventional wisdom in cybersecurity circles is that: we’re very much open to attack (defined lots of ways; often people mean: PCs attached […]
March 25th, 2009 | by elisabeth | published in Future of the Internet | Comments Off on Contingent generativity comes to WoW
Imagine that you’re playing World of Warcraft and you decide you could use a little help finishing your quest. So you go to a site that aggregates and distributes “add-ons”—independently-written programs that hook into WoW and create new functionality for game players. You choose a popular one called QuestHelper and go on your way. As […]
March 24th, 2009 | by elisabeth | published in Future of the Internet | 1 Comment
As you all know, one of Prof. Z’s projects is Herdict, which monitors blocked web sites around the world. One of the ways you can help out the project is to jump over to the Reporter, a.k.a. amiblockedornot, which lets you test the accessibility of websites where problems have been reported. The Reporter will suggest […]
March 20th, 2009 | by yvettewohn | published in Future of the Internet, Herdict, news | 2 Comments
I never tire of listening to Prof. Z and am probably not the only one. For those who were unable to attend any of his classes, panels, and lectures in the past few weeks, several audio interviews are available on the Internet (where else?). * On NPR’s On the Media, Prof. Z talks about the […]
