As a matter of record keeping and curiosity, here are the blog posts I wrote for the seminar on Information Technology and Public Policy that I took at the Woodrow Wilson School. Many of them, especially the ones on the Facebook Terms of Service and the Kindle 2, are now outdated due to events in the past months, but others are still relevant. 4 and 9 are topics that still stand today–4 is on how Computer Science education (especially at lower levels) could be improved and 9 discusses some of the tragedies that occur with what are normally positive traits of the Internet: the ability to disseminate information quickly, to keep sources anonymous, and to retain information for an indefinite amount of time.

1. Facebook wants to own your life [February 22nd, 2009]
2. The Kindle 2’s Correct Copyright Claims (and the Authors Guild’s Incorrect Ones) [February 28th, 2009]*
3. Blurring Google Earth [March 7th, 2009]
4. Computers in Our World [March 28th, 2009]
5. TVGuardian Will Protect Us All [April 4th, 2009]
6. The Kindle 2: A New Hope (for the disabled) [April 11th, 2009]
7. eBooks and mp3s [April 18th, 2009]
8. Protecting Children from the Indescribable Filth of YouTube [April 25th, 2009]
9. Grief From Griefers [May 2nd, 2009]

*Tim Lee (the tech libertarian) was in my class! He approved of this post.