There is currently a very angry discussion among some academics about how the publisher Elsevier is taking down papers that were published by Elsevier and uploaded onto Academia.edu by the […]
The Atlantic published a graph showing the volume of tweets related to the Democratic convention (w/ speech by Michelle Obama on second night) and how that volume compares with tweets […]
The Coburn report blamed one of my papers (co-authored with other people in our lab and part of a larger project funded by the NSF) as being a waste of […]
A 43-year old man in South Korea was arrested by police on April 30 for alleged illegal election activity, Korean media sources report. (Being arrested in Korea does not mean […]
I attended a panel at Play Machinima Law, a Stanford conference on machinima law, where the main discussion was trying to figure out if machinima was fair use, and if […]
Of all countries, it angers me that Korea thinks offline trading of cyber money is illegal. According to the wire service Yonhap, a local court in Busan fined two 30-somethings […]
At JFB, we took a hard blow today (oh, it’s 3a.m. so that technically makes it yesterday) when the First Circuit said ‘no’ to internet in the courtroom. (Here’s a […]
A lot of crowd-sourcing seems to be going on these days– if it has to do with information that is not confidential, why not get more people to think about […]
D. Yvette Wohn 