Other Writings

Most of the papers I have written in the past couple years for school are collected here.

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Mike Masnick runs Techdirt, a great blog about technology, innovation and business. As part of his Insight Community, I occasionally guest post on Techdirt. Here are some past posts:

7/9/09 – Does the US Government Really Need Wider Latitude to Monitor Private Networks?

6/3/09 – US Trade Rep Promises Transparency… But Actions Speak Louder Than Websites.

5/12/09 – Despite MN Supreme Court Ruling, Breathalyzer Manufacturer Refuses to Turn Over Source Code

3/27/09 – Yes, Academics Can Add To The News Ecosystem; No, It Doesn’t Need To Be In Newspapers.

3/19/09 – Why Are Australia’s Would-Be ‘Net Censors So Opposed To Transparency?

3/19/09 – After Being Educated About The Negative Side Effects, Students Stop Using Laptops In Class

3/17/09 – 2009 Budget Includes $9.4 Billion for FBI IP Enforcement Agents

3/11/09 – Slate Realizes It Has A Valuable Community

3/10/09 – Why Is Al Gore Supporting A .Eco Top-Level Domain?

3/6/09 – Are Industry Best Practices Enough To Protect Net Neutrality?

2/2/09 – Reports of News’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

2/26/09 – When Will Journalists Stop Treating Google As the Enemy?

2/25/09 – How Does Chinese Internet Censorship Affect Business?

2/25/09 – Google, Too, Chooses Lobbying Over Competing

2/24/09 – Chicago Rushes Head First Into ‘Limitless’ Surveillance

2/16/09 – Can We Stop Asking for a New Internet?

2/9/09 – ‘Blogging Won’t Make You Lots of Money’ Says the Man Who Made Lots of Money Blogging

1/29/09 – OLPC Finally Open Sources Its Hardware

1/14/09 – Is Apple Finally Realizing That Competition Is a Good Thing?

1/12/09 – Surprise! Net Censorship Circumvention Tools Sell User Data

1/8/09 – Google Street View Helps Find Kidnapped Child

1/6/09 – Obama Appoints Former RIAA Lawyer to Associate Attorney General

12/24/08 – Fart Apps Prove, Once Again, That The Market Is The Best Decider Of Value

12/22/08 – RIAA’s New Policy Isn’t About Deterrence, It’s About Sidestepping Due Process

12/9/08 – Do We Really Want an Internet Run by Lynch Mobs?

10/9/08 – Can “Pay What You Want” Work Outside the Music Industry?

9/25/08 – The ACTA Hearing: USTR Claims There’s Nothing to See Here… Move Along

9/17/08 – Making Google Products Easier to Use Is Not ‘Encouraging Stealing’

9/8/08 – Should Apple Really Be Determining What is Useful?

9/5/08 – Disc Makers Convince Themselves Discs Are Hear to Stay

9/2/08 – Will the Android Marketplace Be More Appealing to Developers than the App Store?

8/26/08 – Another Game Innovator is Shut Down by a Copyright Claim

8/19/08 – Blockbuster CEO is Still Confused by the Long Tail

8/14/08 – The IOC Joins the DMCA Censorship Club

8/12/08 – In an Age of Abundance, Attribution is More Important than Copying

8/8/08 – Eight $1,000 App Buyers Later, and Apple Pulls It

8/6/08 – Is There Any Good Reason Why Apple Should Pull the $1,000 iPhone App?

8/4/08 – Should the Next President Use a Computer?

7/28/08 – Is Privacy That Cuil?

7/18/08 – GPS Used to Disprove Radar Gun in Speeding Trial

7/16/08 – Newest Industry to Be Crowdsourced? Internet Censorship.