Jonathan Zittrain

I’ll be picking up blogging again, and after giving up on sorting out cross-site RSS’ing, the posts will be going solely on the book site at http://www.futureoftheinternet.net/blog.  See you over there!  …JZ

Adam Thierer has posted a thoughtful review of the Future of the Internet. He picks up on something that others have mentioned that I don’t realize I appear to suggest: that my distinction between sterile and generative technologies appears to be too much of a dichotomy, and that I think that only generative technologies are good [...]

The page on ActBlue to draft him has been converted into a straight candidate support page.  And lessig08.org is registered, so far pointing to a blank.
Update: lessig08.org is live:
I have decided I want to give as much energy as I can to the Change Congress movement. I will decide in the next week or so [...]

Wikileaks is a set of strategically placed wikis around the world.  It’s designed to accept leaked documents, generally from anonymous dissidents around the world, and to get them into circulation.
A Cayman Island bank and its Swiss parent company filed for an emergency restraining order in a California court asking the registrar for wikileaks.org to change its [...]

… the Facebook group tops 1,000 people in 24 hours, and there are four badges to choose from at the newly-appeared Draft Lessig website, complete with trademark P22 typewriter font.

My OS X machine has had Office 2004 on it since, well, about 2004.  Nearly four years later I’m alerted to an update from its auto-updater:
This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. This update also contains an improvement that enhances the stability [...]

Enterprising UVa senior Adrienne Felt has developed an intriguing argument about privacy for Web 2.0 apps like those on the Facebook development platform.  It will get lots of news coverage, much of it boiling down to reports that don’t capture the richness of the problem.  Here’s how Felt puts it:
When Jane installs a Facebook application, the [...]

Alex Curtis of Public Knowledge attended a panel about Internet filters at the DC “State of the Net” conference. He’s placed part of the session on YouTube in which RIAA president and former general counsel Cary Sherman conceded that trying to filter out unauthorized copyrighted material at the network level could be difficult. But the network isn’t the [...]

Last week a federal appellate court upheld a judgment against EchoStar in a patent case brought by TiVo. I think this case is fascinating, and open a chapter of FOI with it:
TiVo introduced the first digital video recorder (DVR) in 1998. It allowed  consumers to record and time-shift TV shows. After withstanding several claims that [...]

A lot of my recent work concerns how vulnerable the Internet is to bad code — in particular, how easily the generative PCs hooked up to it can find themselves reprogrammed for worse, in a heartbeat, either by drive-by downloads that sneak onto the machine or by code that the user affirmatively (but foolishly) asks [...]