Commentary
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The Body Politic: The Patent and the Podcaster
If Personal Audio nurtured any hope of getting revenue from the podcast patent, it lost that hope in April. The U.S. Patent And Trademark Office (USPTO), responding to a challenge filed by the Electronic Freedom Foundation, concluded that a key claim of the patent had been also invented by others.
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Why the Coding Culture Needs a Makeover
Men greatly outnumber women in most STEM careers. So, how do we fix that disparity?
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Fighting for the Center: The Future of Work in a Digital Age
Lawrence Summers spoke at the Hamilton Project on the Future of Work in the Age of the Machine on 19 February 2015. The former Secretary of the Treasury paused before he gave his judgment on the impact of digital technology on jobs and work.
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Do Think Tanks Really Think? Or Do We Just Think That They Think?
The joke is an old one in Washington. Think Tanks dont really think, it begins, but they can produce a really great study arguing that thinking would be a truly great idea.
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The Body Politic: The Law of the Land
We like to think that technology has the ability to change the world. We bask in the idea that our age is marked by large movements of information and data, movements that were impossible just 25 years ago. Yet, one aspect of Internet governance may ultimately change international relations by…
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The Body Politic: Public Actions
I was surprised to learn that the U. S. Congress had voted to slow work on one aspect of Internet governance, but Im not always in touch with the give and take within the Capitol complex.
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Lessons of the Internet Age: The International Telecommunications Union and the Internet Society
At a recent Internet Society event in Washington, D.C., a review of the policy role played by the ITU network policy quickly turned into a discussion of the internal issues facing that organization.
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Is Electronic Voting Still a Current Topic?
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PCS President’s Blog: What Works in the Workplace? Communication Competence and Technical Skills
There has been a lot of conversation and consternation around one important issue: how can we best prepare college students for the world of work?
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The Definition of STEM?
Honest and productive discussions about STEM topics (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) are muddled by the public's confusion about what exactly STEM means.