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Important Cyberlaw & Info-Tech Policy Books (2012 Edition)

by Adam Thierer on December 17, 2012 · Add a Comment

The number of major cyberlaw and information tech policy books being published annually continues to grow at an astonishing pace, so much so that I have lost the ability to read and review all of them. In past years, I put together end-of-year lists of important info-tech policy books (here are the lists for 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011) and I was fairly confident I had read just about everything of importance that was out there (at least that was available in the U.S.). But last year that became a real struggle for me and this year it became an impossibility. A decade ago, there was merely a trickle of Internet policy books coming out each year. Then the trickle turned into a steady stream. Now it has turned into a flood. Thus, I’ve had to become far more selective about what is on my reading list. (This is also because the volume of journal articles about info-tech policy matters has increased exponentially at the same time.)

So, here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to discuss what I regard to be the five most important titles of 2012, briefly summarize a half dozen others that I’ve read, and then I’m just going to list the rest of the books out there. I’ve read most of them but I have placed an asterisk next to the ones I haven’t. Please let me know what titles I have missed so that I can add them to the list. (Incidentally, here’s my compendium of all the major tech policy books from the 2000s and here’s the running list of all my book reviews.)

Phi Beta Iota: A total “WOW.”

Includes, in this order (click here to read reviews, below to reach Amazon page):

Rebecca MacKinnon – Consent of the Network: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

Susan Crawford – Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age

John Palfrey & Urs Gasser – Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems

Christopher Yoo – The Dynamic Internet: How Technology, Users, and Businesses are Transforming the Network

Brett Frischmann –Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources

and others.

2012/12/182012/12/18

David Isenberg: Deep Web Research and Discovery Resources 2013

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Deep Web Research and Discovery Resources 2013

By Marcus P. Zillman, Published on December 18, 2012

LLRX.com (Law and Technology Resources for Legal Professionals)

Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators (http://www.BotsBlogs.com/) is a keynote presentation that I have been delivering over the last several years, and much of my information comes from the extensive research that I have completed over the years into the “invisible” or what I like to call the “deep” web. The Deep Web covers somewhere in the vicinity of 1 trillion plus pages of information located through the world wide web in various files and formats that the current search engines on the Internet either cannot find or have difficulty accessing. The current search engines find hundreds of billions of pages at the present time of this writing. This report constantly updated at http://DeepWeb.us/ .

In the last several years, some of the more comprehensive search engines have written algorithms to search the deeper portions of the world wide web by attempting to find files such as .pdf, .doc, .xls, ppt, .ps. and others. These files are predominately used by businesses to communicate their information within their organization or to disseminate information to the external world from their organization. Searching for this information using deeper search techniques and the latest algorithms allows researchers to obtain a vast amount of corporate information that was previously unavailable or inaccessible. Research has also shown that even deeper information can be obtained from these files by searching and accessing the “properties” information on these files!

This report and guide is designed to give you the resources you need to better understand the history of the deep web research, as well as various classified resources that allow you to search through the currently available web to find those key sources of information nuggets only found by understanding how to search the “deep web”.

This Deep Web Research and Discovery Resources 2013 report and guide is divided into the following sections:

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2012/12/152012/12/15

Sir Richard Branson: Breaking the Taboo — Ending the War on Drugs also known as the War on People

Education, Knowledge

Narrated by Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman, “Breaking the Taboo” is produced by Sam Branson's indie Sundog Pictures and Brazilian co-production partner Spray Filmes and was directed by Cosmo Feilding Mellen and Fernando Grostein Andrade. Featuring interviews with several current or former presidents from around the world, such as Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo over the United States led War on Drugs and expose what it calls the biggest failure of global policy in the last 40 years.

YouTube (1:50) Movie Trailer

YouTube (58:09) Full Documentary in English, Subtitles as Needed

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2012/12/14

Rickard Falkvinge: Four More Reasons Open File Sharing is a Virtual Public Library

Access, Culture, Innovation, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy, Software

Four More Reasons The Pirate Bay Is Effectively A Public Library – And A Great One

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 06:57 AM PST

Infopolicy: File sharing fulfills the exact same need and purpose as public libraries did when they first appeared, and is met with the exact same resistance – even in the same words. This article follows the previous observation that The Pirate Bay is the world’s most efficient public library.

Zacqary Adam Green’s piece comparing The Pirate Bay to the New York Public Library the other day was spot on, and we’ve seen it travel a lot around the world – in excess of 3,000 shares and counting. File sharing (and The Pirate Bay) is the most efficient public library ever invented, and its invention is a quantum leap for civilization as such. Imagine every human being having 24/7 access to humanity’s collective knowledge and culture!

Moreover, it’s not even a pipe dream that needs to be funded with forty gazillion eurodollars. All the technology has already been developed, all the infrastructure has already been rolled out, and the tools already distributed. All we have to do to realize this is, frankly, to remove the ban on using it.

In the book The case for copyright reform (download here), we can read the following:

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2012/12/12

Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online

Knowledge, TED Videos

2012/12/07

Rickard Falkvinge: New York Public Library versus Online “Piracy”

Culture, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy

The Pirate Bay is the World's Most Efficient Public Library

The way media piracy works is that one person or group purchases a work, and then shares it with millions of other people. This supposedly deprives the author or artist of those millions of people’s money. One group has acquired over 50 million media items, and makes each of them available to approximately 20 million people — which must be a tremendous hit to creative professionals’ wallets. This notorious institution is called the New York Public Library.

It begs the question why every author, filmmaker, and musician isn’t up in arms about the New York Public Library’s rampant sharing, while there’s a ton of opposition to the sharing habits of BitTorrent peers who use The Pirate Bay. After all, The Pirate Bay’s community shares significantly less than the New York Public Library: just 1 million items in 2008 (and the collection certainly hasn’t grown 5000% since then). The reason that The Pirate Bay is offensive [efficient and pro-active], and the New York Public Library is not, is because of its efficiency.

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2012/12/062012/12/06

Yoda: Peter Skillen on Scaffolding for Deep (Collaborative) Understanding

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yoda with light saber — Got Crowd? BE the Force!

With him, force is…

Scaffolding for Deep Understanding

Posted by Peter Skillen on Nov 30, 2012 in The How of 21st Century Teaching,

How CAN we help our students be the kind of thinkers we want?

Several years ago, my friend and colleague, @brendasherry, wrote a thoughtful post called What is Deep Understanding? She asked several excellent questions:

what kind of thinkers do we want our students to be?
what is deep understanding?
can schools really provide the learning environment to nurture and develop it?

In thinking about these questions, I would like to also ask: “How can we help novice learners become more expert learners?”

Novice Learners versus Expert Learners

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