As Google is handing over your sensitive personal information to Viacom, I was reminded by some strange behavior I noticed in Google’s caching system a while back, that I have decided to investigate further.
This code doesn’t do anything exciting, but give it some time to let Google cache it and let another monitoring program I’ve […]
I’ve been listening to NPR and Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics, came on and talked about “Government 2.0.” They were taking calls and I called in and mumbled something about financial and legal transparency. I meant to namedrop Free Culture and Change-Congress but I didn’t. He did mention Sunlight Foundation, though, which is just […]
The other day, I clicked a link to some video footage of rather savage riot police beatings in Iceland which happened last week. The video was hosted on LiveLeak, a video sharing site similar to YouTube which bills itself as “Redefining the Media.” I had a few questions about the site, so I used the […]
Something I’ve mentioned a few times on here now is Lawrence Lessig’s new political reform campaign, aptly named Change Congress.
Like Creative Commons, the site has a form which lets citizens and candidates/congressmen display how they support the campaign. There are four pledges: Individual Donations Only, Abolish Earmarks, Increase Transparency and Public Finance Campaigns.
Pledges 2 and […]
My school recently had an election for the student government body. The site looked pretty shoddy so I checked the source and played around with TamperData to see what was up. I noticed that the generated voting page had hidden Student UID and Name values hidden, and I wanted to check if those were the […]
I wasn’t planning on applying for the Google Summer of Code this year, but the stars aligned and I got shafted on the internship I thought I was going to have, I found a GSoC project I actually liked, and Google pushed the deadline back, so I have nothing to lose and plenty to gain […]
Stanford University, once home to Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, has just changed it’s campus network policy to actively report all DMCA infringements to the copyright overlords.
According to my friend George, a Stanford freshman: dude. shit is fffffucked up at stanford
This article from the Stanford Daily covers today’s story.
This drastic change now requires the university […]
Bummer.
After lots of thinking and advice, I have decided it does not make sense for the Change Congress movement for me to a run for Congress in CA12. We would have just over 30 days to introduce a district to me and to an idea. That would not be enough time to convince them to […]
(This part is a cross-post from the BU Free Culture blog.)
Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora.com, which provides custom radio stations based on user preferences is coming to speak on 2/27 at Morse Auditorium! Here’s the info from the facebook invite:
Name:
Pandora.com Founder Tim Westergren Talks about Digital Music
Tagline:
Radio, Access, Industry, Internet and Music!
Host:
BU Free Culture
Type:
Music/Arts - […]
I sent an email to Sam Bayard of the Citizen Media Law Project telling him about Paul’s RIAA woes. I asked him if linking was a crime and his verdict was no. Of course, this is still just one man’s opinion, but he is a very well informed man.
I’m assuming he’s not going to mind […]
