Susan Crawford’s excellent blog has some comments on the recent D.C. Court of Appeal decision concerning the FCC’s extension of CALEA into VoIP. Sample, from the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA): “government attempts to impose a poorly conceived wiretap surveillance regime on domestic Voice over the Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone traffic could destroy American […]

David Carr has written the only intelligent piece I’ve read so far on the current grotesqueries of Ann Coulter.

There’s a ton of coverage online about YearlyKos – the annual Netroots gathering. Most of it can be found via the site, but there’s also a good overview of Netroots on the June 9 On the Media podcast, beginning at about 14:00. We tried to present some coverage at mesh, but could do a lot […]

The NYT today looks at the adverse consequences some are feeling from having a (too) vivid online persona. Example: employers searching Facebook before hiring summer interns. A reminder that the Web is forever.