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Papers, Please

Complaints I hear at the end of the term.

Leaving Las Vegas

You can’t take a “what happens in Las Vegas” approach to online speech.

Promises, Promises

Everyone tells us "your privacy is important to us," even libraries. What happens to those promises?

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Once we built railroads and presses and libraries. Now it's done - unless things change systematically.

Understanding Social Facts

Reading John Wihbey's new book, The Social Fact: News and Knowledge in a Networked World.

The Populace Has No Clothes

... while the emperors enjoy secrecy. Thoughts after reading news about privacy online and on paper.

Attention and Deficits

An argument for reclaiming our time by Jenny Odell.

Skinner at the Googleplex

Tech critics revist an odd utopian novel from 1948 - B.F. Skinner's Walden Two.