In a letter to the NYT about an article on radiation overdoses, George Lantos writes: My stroke neurologists and I have decided that if treatment
Open Science : A Sociology of Information Topic par excellence
Conference at Berkeley this weekend on changing the way we think about scientific knowledge http://opensciencesummit.com. From the conference website Open Science Summit 2010: Updating the
A Few Limits on Copyright
Until a few days ago, most of us did not know that the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998 empowers/requires the Librarian of Congress to
Regulating the Supply of Law
From the “Friends and Relatives of the Department” Files… The ways that states regulate professions is a topic of sociological interest. The degree to which
Technologically Induced Social Alzheimers
David Pogue has a nice little piece called “Why We Make Home Videos” on the NYT website. It’s basically a personal tale in defense of
Three Kinds of Information Sensitivity
OK, a naive meditation on three modes of paying attention to the world. Pretend you are a politician, perhaps a senator or member of congress.
Innoeduvation 