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Facebook goes public: Zuckerberg in Public Parts & WWGD?

Relevant to the expected Facebook IPO announcement, here are excerpts from my...

Efficiency over growth (and jobs)

The hook to every song sung at Davos is “jobs, jobs, jobs.” The...

Davos, disrupted

I’m among the disrupted of Davos. Outside, there’s an #OccupyDavos...

Public Parts on Reding’s four pillars

Since European Commission VP Viviane Reding’s proposal for internet...

#DLD12: Viviane Reding on privacy

I’m at the DLD conference in Munich. Haven’t live-blogged in ages....

Where Gutenberg worked

I took a detour on a trip to Europe so I could visit Mainz and the Gutenberg...

We are the lobbyists

The internet has helped untold publics to form. Yesterday, the internet became...

Network knowledge

I’m a bit late in blogging about and urging you to read David...

Murdoch doesn’t understand links

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Shifting the discussion to principles

The good news about the White House’s response to an anti-SOPA petition...

Journalism via jokes

Tonight I redeemed the greatest Christmas present from my son, Jake: tickets to...

Jon Stewart & SOPA (please)

Got to see The Daily Show taping tonight (more on that in a minute) and in the...

Bring back the busy signal

Email and communication are badly broken and the solution isn’t so much...

So much for the penny press

The New York Times raised its daily price to $2.50 today. I thought back to the...

Very public health

Watching the remarkable Xeni Jardin tweet her mammogram and cancer diagnosis,...

Something for that new ebook reader….

If I may be so bold and greedy to suggest something to fill that new Kindle,...

A new M.A. in entrepreneurial journalism at CUNY

We got some big news at CUNY this week: We are approved to offer what we...

FTC Fines Santa Claus Over COPPA Violations

WASHINGTON–Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz today...

Why not a reverse meter?

As I ponder the future of The New York Times, it occurred to me that its pay...

Scaling fact-checking

Before Thanksgiving, CUNY’s Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial...

Do-not-track hypocrisy

Sunday’s New York Times editorializes in favor of Do Not Track and other...

Occupy #OccupyWallStreet

It is time for Twitter and its citizens to take back #OccupyWallStreet. I say...

Debate on privacy: the fuller text

The Wall Street Journal today publishes excerpts from a debate among me, danah...

Beta-think (and ending malaria)

The organizers of the End Malaria campaign are putting on one more push to sell...

Our notion of nations

Consider: I a matter of a year, the leaders of Italy, Greece, Libya, Egypt, and...