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FOI Topics and Links of the Week

March 31st, 2011  |  by jennifer  |  published in Android, blackberry, Future of the Internet, iphone, kindle  |  2 Comments

Amazon strong-arms a third-party Kindle service. Amazon shut down Lendle, a popular Kindle service that allows users to lend their books to strangers, last week because it didn’t “serve the principal purpose of driving sales of products and services on the Amazon site.” Two days later, after customers tweeted their displeasure, Amazon informed Lendle of […]

FOI Topics and Links of the Week

October 18th, 2010  |  by jennifer  |  published in Android, blackberry, censorship, cybersecurity, Facebook, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone  |  1 Comment

T-Mobile gives its G2 Droid amnesia. The G2s appearing on T-Mobile shelves this week come with an extra piece of hardware, and it’s not a free car charger. If G2 owners teach their Droids (either by coding or downloading software) to do something that interferes with T-Mobile’s business model, the company-installed rootkit will induce short-term […]

Blackberry-22

August 3rd, 2010  |  by z  |  published in blackberry, cloud, cybersecurity, filtering, Future of the Internet  |  8 Comments

“Why did you walk around all day with rubber balls in your hands?” Orr sniggered again. “I did it to protect my good reputation in case anyone ever caught me walking around with crab apples in my cheeks. With rubber balls in my hands I could deny there were crab apples in my cheeks. Every […]

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@ruchowdh @BKCHarvard Welcome — delighted to be working together!

About 2 weeks ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@restoreorderusa @AlecMacGillis I mean, points 2 and 3 don’t even make any sense! How would anyone know if a cited article has been read, and by whom? Did they survey readers and ask them? And does it add up that 50% of all articles (whether cited or not) aren’t read, while *80%* of cited articles aren’t read? pic.twitter.com/876e4vfdJ0

Last month from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@restoreorderusa @AlecMacGillis I guess it’s fitting that the eye-opening statistics here are sourced to a news article that in turn cites to a non-peer-reviewed op-ed that in turn cites to … nothing, with no methodology for how these numbers are arrived at. Truly no real basis (so far) to believe them.

Last month from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@byrdinator @MattGlassman312 Fascinating. Would these amendments be entertained before or after any conferencing with the Senate to reconcile differences? If after, there’s danger of infinite amendment loops. If not, won’t the few members in conference get the last word before a final up-or-down vote?

About a month ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@bendreyfuss It does happen every so often. This incident was so brazen that Congress later reversed the provision. The staffer who quietly put the amendment in is now the CEO of the RIAA. salon.com/2000/08/28/wor… pic.twitter.com/mAW3InOECq

About a month ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone



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