Michael J. Madison (Pittsburgh): Knowledge Curation. Jennifer Shkabatur (BU): A Global Panopticon? The Changing Role of International Organizations in the Information Age. Horace Anderson (Pace): No Bitin' Allowed: A Hip-Hop Copying Paradigm for All of Us. Barbara J. Evans (Houston): Much Ado About Data Ownership. Daniel J. Solove (GWU): Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security. Don't think Orwell, think Kafka: Daniel Solove on why privacy matters even if you have "nothing to hide". Our data, ourselves: What if privacy is keeping us from reaping the real benefits of the infosphere? A college professor's perspective on alliteracy, the technologic generation gap, and the end of reading as we know it. Could pirates be your friends? At university press meeting, some see advantage to having their works copied without permission. Steal This F&$#ing Book!: A surprise best seller raises interesting questions about intellectual property in the digital age. Writers as ideas: Writer's block = Getting cozy with writers instead of words written in blood, debt and beers. "Intertwingularity" is a term coined by Ted Nelson to express the complexity of interrelations in human knowledge. An interview with Seth Godin on the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything. Get to the good part: Terry Teachout writes in praise of shortened attention spans. An interview with Joshua Foer on Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything.
