"The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced a new initiative on Tuesday to seek reform of the United States patent system. But conspicuously missing from the list is the most direct and obvious way to solve the problem: exclude software from patent protection altogether."
Nice write-up of a good talk by Bollier that I saw at Berkman.
"The Prison Policy Initiative documents the impact of mass incarceration on individuals, communities, and the national welfare in order to empower the public to improve criminal justice policy."
Beautiful visualization. Interesting and informative display.
"What modern data science is finding is that nearly any type of data can be used, much like a fingerprint, to identify the person who created it: your choice of movies on Netflix, the location signals emitted by your cell phone, even your pattern of walking as recorded by a surveillance camera."
Nice writeup about the Wikimedia public policy initative. It's nice to see that it seems to be taking off reasonably well.
"We should legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement."
"Upon the demise of LimeWire as a useful client, many people simply stopped using Gnutella altogther."
