EFF's first staff lawyer reflects on how the debate around online speech has evolved and where he thinks the early internet activists got things right and wrong
I've fought for a free internet for 30 years. Here's where I think we went wrong, and right. Tweets: @codinghorror , @jangles , @ahmed , @mpawlo , @sfmnemonic , @blakereid , @harrisonstephen , and @p...
EFF's first staff lawyer reflects on how the debate around online speech has evolved and where he thinks the early internet activists got things right and wrong
I've fought for a free internet for 30 years. Here's where I think we went wrong, and right. Tweets: @sfmnemonic , @mpawlo , @paulmbaker , @blakereid , and @harrisonstephen Tweets: Mike Godwin / @sfm...
The meteoric rise of bitcoin and difficulty in tracing ownership make disclosures from journalists and the experts they quote even more important
2018 will be the year of inadequate bitcoin disclosures. — In April 2013, Farhad Manjoo (then at Slate, now at The New York Times) … Tweets: @econoscribe and @brianchoffman Tweets: Ludwig Siegele / ...
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With Slate, Adobe is launching a new text- and photo-centric storytelling app for the iPad today. — About a year ago, Adobe launched Voice, its first standalone storytelling app that lets users reco...
Mainstream Commenters Choose Yahoo Logins
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HP Slate priced at €400 for June launch, Atom CPU confirmed?
Reputable Spanish publication Clipset has the first concrete report on pricing and internal specs for HP's Slate. Seemingly obtained from HP itself, the €400 ($546) price tag positions the Slate a no...
The evolutionary roots of Facebook's “25 Things” craze.
Last week, I enlisted Slate readers to help divine how Facebook's “25 Random Things About Me” trend got started. More than 3,000 of you responded, answering queries on when you first saw a “25 Things...
Dead Plagiarists Society
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Now that Web 2.0 has had its mainstream media coming-out party in both Newsweek and Slate recently (here and here), I thought I'd take some time this afternoon and try to get a real sense of the preva...
Looking beyond the twilight of the blogs
[Graphic courtesy of Yahoo's Bradley Horowitz at Elatable.com] — Slate magazine today is running an article titled "Twilight of the Blogs", arguing that all the signs are in place to say that bloggi...