The lead editorial in the NY Times today (“What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You“) addresses the question of the state’s role in the generation
"The More Information the Better"?
Take a look at BARRY MEIER’s May 23, 2007 NYT article “For Drug Makers, a Downside to Full Disclosure.” It’s about how GlaxoSmithKline made drug
Democracy and the Information Order I
Consider Adam Liptak’s front page article in the Times today. It’s about a website that publishes information about people who agree to be witnesses for
Tooting My Own Horn
Well, the sociology of information has made it to the big time now. John Tierney has a piece (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/22tier.html?ex=1337659200&en=6619e8ff1cb79513&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink) in the New York Times Science
Technology and Invisibility
Technology boosters are fond of telling us that soon everything will be at our fingertips, that technology will transform an informational landscape that is riddled
Suing for Information
Conventional wisdom says lawsuits are always about money driven, motivated by, depending on your point of view, greed or the need for just compensation. Sometimes,
