Online commons to spark debate
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eBay could be a good model for  government-backed online communities,  says a UK think-tank.
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Are right-leaning voters spending all their online time on Rushlimbaugh.com? Are left-leaning voters locked into the like-minded Talkingpointsmemo.
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With the campaign jabber of the 2008 elections already getting loud, an organization that promotes transparency in politics hopes one slice of the Web can promote reasonable, intelligent debate about issues.
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College students around the country start groups to teach their peers about copyright law and how Hollywood and record companies abuse it. To fight vacant stares, they frame the issue like this: Save the iPod. By Katie Dean.
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The social networking site is co-sponsoring a Republican presidential debate, followed by a Democratic one, in New Hampshire this week. What's notable is that at least five candidates are likely to be forcibly excluded.
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How much should people be able to quote from, remix, and reuse copyrighted material?
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How do you create an online encyclopedia when few native speakers have access to the Internet?
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering a copyright bill that stands at the center of the file-sharing debate.
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Tim Wu and Rick Cotton respond to questions from readers in the latest installment of our week-long debate on copyright, piracy, and digital filtering.
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My boy Howard Dean talks  about the next generation of politics:  "The destination of the Democratic Party means making it a party that can communicate with its supporters and with all Americans. Politics is at its best when we create and inspire a sense of community. The tools that were pioneered in my campaign -- like blogs, and meetups, and streaming video -- are just a start. We must use all of the power and potential of technology as part of an aggressive outreach to meet and include voters, to work with the state parties, and to influence media coverage."  The Internet will fundamentally change every aspect of society.  It started in how we developed software.  Open Source is starting  ...
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Online petitions could be used to decide issues to be debated in Parliament, David Cameron suggests.
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The FTC's peer-to-peer workshop brings opposing sides together, and they agree something should be done, but it's that uncertain something that is causing trouble. Michael Grebb reports from Washington.
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By Sherman, Will  THIS ARTICLE, REPRINTED FROM DEGREE TUTOR, MAY SEEM TO FOCUS ON PUBLIC LIBRARIES-BUT THERE IS WISDOM HERE FOR ALL INFO PROS. Many predict that the digital age will wipe public bookshelves clean, and permanently end the centuries-old era of libraries.
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With 24-hour-a-day talk on all things political, the web is the ultimate gauge of public thinking. A new site seeks to capture up-to-the-minute buzz with an index of the most authoritative political bloggers. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.
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Net law professor Michael Geist takes a look at how open access is reshaping the way research becomes available.
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By Dan Barkin, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 23--If you want to get a good argument going, start a discussion about tear-downs.
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I noted yesterday that there seems to be some media fanfare surrounding Amazon's launch of a digital book tablet. It occurred to me that the markets surrounding media such as books, music and movies bear more than a passing resemblance to financial markets, and as such, perhaps they were amenable to a similar method of analysis. Being the owner of a sizable collection of paper books, this led me to consider the drawbacks one faces when Digital Rights Management restrictions are put in place.