http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:50:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/06/12/new-blog-location-wwwfutureoftheinternetnet/ 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 ... http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/03/24/dichotomies-and-markets/  After weighing the possibilities, he will focus on Change Congress. http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/02/25/lessig-to-wave-off-of-race/ 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 ... http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/02/19/lessig-for-congress-game-on/ 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 ... http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/02/19/wikileaks-and-points-of-control/ I'm trying to work through some of the recent criticisms of Barack Obama. Some seem contradictory. One is that he is too liberal, at least to appeal to moderates. It's pointed out that the National Journal rated him the "most liberal" Senator for 2007. On the other hand, he is said ... http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/02/17/critiques-of-obama/ ... 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. http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/02/16/you-know-theres-mo-when/ Seems increasingly likely.  From NSI WHOIS, change-congress.com is registered: AboutUs: CHANGE-CONGRESS.COM          LESSIG, LAWRENCE **          Stanford, CA 94305    US         Domain Name: CHANGE-CONGRESS.COM             Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :      LESSIG, LAWRENCE **          Stanford, CA 94305    US    Phone:    Fax: 123 123 1234         Record expires on 11-Jan-2009    Record created on 11-Jan-2008    Database last updated on 11-Jan-2008      Domain servers in listed order: Manage DNS      NS19.WORLDNIC.COM    205.178.190.10      NS20.WORLDNIC.COM    205.178.189.10              Show underlying registry data for ... http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/02/15/lessig-for-congress/ 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 ... http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/02/13/just-another-update/ 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 ... http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/z/2008/02/08/should-facebook-preemptively-protect-users-against-rogue-apps/