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Lest We Forget: What You “C” in Our Cookies

Sarah Underwood— For me, there are two outstanding features of Dillon, South Carolina. One is that savvy out-of-staters like me drive several miles below the speed limit. The other is the South-of-the-Border theme park. Nearly every summer of my life, my family drove from Northern Virginia to Myrtle Beach, South

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Greg Lastowka on the Internet Blackout

Greg Lastowka, professor of Law at Rutgers University and author of Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds, writes on today’s Internet Blackout and the pending legislation before Congress that could limit our access to certain sites. Greg Lastowka— Today is a great day for cyberlaw.  As thousands of

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Solove interview on NYT Freakonomics blog

Annika Mengisen of the New York Times‘ Freakonomics blog sat down with another Yale Press author, Daniel Solove. They talked about Solove’s new book, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet, and why even those with “virtually no online footprint” should be concerned about their internet

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Publishing Gone Digital

Digital publishing is much on the minds of publishers, authors, and readers these days, since Yale law professor Yochai Benkler came out with his new book The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet, Benkler describes how patterns of

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The Wealth of Networks

New technologies have brought us to a critical moment of transition. Will markets, social relationships, and democracy ever be the same again? Yale University Press author Yochai Benkler will be giving a free public talk about the ideas in his new book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms

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