Some recent Ars stuff I thought might be interesting to a broader audience: A piece that ran Sunday on Blogger’s oddly opaque policy for dealing with DMCA notices, which seems designed to leave users targeted with C&D takedown notices with too little information to effectively counternotice. Not massively scandalous, but it does seem noteworthy [...]

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Not generally cross-linking my Ars articles or Law & Disorder blog posts, but since it’s not bylined, figured I’d throw out a pointer to a short piece about Barack Obama’s distributed phonebanking effort, which was the “Campaign Tech of the Year” in the annual Ars Awards.
Also, damn, I really haven’t been posting here at all [...]

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Figure I should cross-link this post at Ars, since my modal political geek reader probably cares more than my modal tech geek reader about my picking a fight with Michael Lind.

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I”ve just been channeling my blogging Chi into the newborn Law & Disorder. Here’s what I’ve been doing there, in case (for some crazy reason) it’s not in your feed yet:
More presidential cabinet speculation porn
A galaxy of tech stars are being named as possible candidates for Chief Technology Officer in the Obama administration. Here are [...]

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So, as readers have noticed, I don’t blog here nearly as often as I once did; daily journalism is time consuming. But I got my start as a writer blogging, and in a lot of ways that’s probably still my comparative advantage. So I’m happy to announce that, starting today, I’ll be blogging about the [...]

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I explain my presidential preference in Reason’s 2008 election survey. My answer to the primary question seemed pretty representative of the respondents:
Living in the District of Columbia, I see little reason to mar my as-yet unblemished record of nonvoting. But if I lived in Virigina or Florida, I’d be ticking the box for Obama—not because [...]

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Like Fox Mulder, I want to believe the arguments ACLU and EFF are advancing against the legitimacy of the FISA Amendments Act’s retroactive immunity provisions—and I do think at least a couple of them are pretty strong. But I’m not yet super-sanguine about the chances of the court agreeing; Walker Vaughn might give them a [...]

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At the risk of turning the blog into an ersatz RSS feed for my Ars stuff, I think this one really merits a look if you’re remotely interested in either copyright/patent policy or the way that completely bollocks statistics can get accepted as facts.  And in this case, it really matters: Two big flashy figures [...]

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I’ve got a long double review up at Ars of two of privacy scholar Dan Solove’s recent books, one a more abstract and theoretical examination of the concept of privacy in American law, the second more of a case study of how the Internet and social media are making it harder to control our identities [...]

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I figure my blog readers, even the ones not normally super enamored of the techy stuff, might be interested in this story at Ars about a fascinating case that doesn’t seem to have gotten a whole lot of coverage.  It involves Echostar, the parent company of DISH Network, suing a firm that manufactures “free to [...]

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