CITP Blog is hosted by Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, a research center that studies digital technologies in public life. Here you’ll find comment and analysis from the digital frontier, written by the Center’s faculty, students, and friends.
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I have to admit I’m surprised at the magnitude of the recent controversy about Gmail, Google’s new webmail service. Gmail is a free webmail service, giving you up to one…
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Grimmelmann on the Digital Cops Conference
James Grimmelmann reports on the recent Digital Cops conference at Yale. It’s a typically Grimmel-rific effort, both entertaining and insightful.
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Voting Machine Inspection
Yesterday, I had a chance, with some colleagues, to look over the new e-voting machines that will be used in the future here in Mercer County, New Jersey. They’re AVC…
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A Grand Unified Theory of Filesharing
Recently we’ve seen several studies of the impact of filesharing on CD sales. We have enough data now to draw some (very) preliminary conclusions, assuming the studies are correct. Despite…
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New Study of the Net
Eric Boorstin, a senior at Princeton, just filed his senior thesis, Music Sales in the Age of File Sharing. The thesis includes a clever study of the impact of Internet…
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Princeton Proposes Quotas to Control Grade Inflation
Princeton is considering putting a cap on the number of A’s that professors could award to students, as a way of fighting grade inflation. Details are in Alyson Zureick’s story…
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WIPO Considering a Ban on Computers
Ernest Miller points to a draft treaty being considered by the World Intellectual Property Organization. It’s a truly remarkable document. And I don’t mean that in a good way. Here’s…
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Trademarks and Ad Placement
Dana Blankenhorn at Moore’s Lore has some interesting discussion of the lawsuit between American Blinds and Google. Here’s the background: When you do a Google search, the results page gives…
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New, Unauthorized Sloganator
I wrote previously about how the remix culture will affect political discourse. A great example is the new, unauthorized version of the Bush/Cheney “Sloganator”. The original, you may recall, was…
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U.S. Drops Ban on Editing Some Foreign Papers
The New York Times reports that the U.S. government has dropped it objection to U.S. people copy-editing scientific papers whose authors come from countries that are under U.S. trade embargoes.…