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Data Centers Are Becoming Big Polluters, Study Finds - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

Warning on Storage of Health Records - New York Times

Cloud Computing

FTC Staff Proposes Online Behavioral Advertising Privacy Principles

Open Source: Interview with Jay Rosen

This is a radio interview with Jay Rosen on the podcast show Open Source. Rosen discusses the current trends in the media, include the communal effort by readers and administrators of the online news site Talking Points Memo to expose the U.S. Attorney's scandal. TPM won the prestigious Polk Award for its efforts.

Google App Engine lets non-Googlers tap into Googly cloud - Machinist - Salon.com

UChannel - Computing in the Cloud

Princeton Workshop on Cloud Computing and Public Policy.

YouTube - 2 of 6 -- The Cloud

An explanation of "The Cloud."

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 04/02/2008 | Faster computers may use light instead of electricity

Maybe using light instead of electricity (which runs on coal) is a solution to the pollution caused by server farms.

apophenia: a google horror story: what happens when you are disappeared

danah boyd is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley and a Fellow at the Harvard University Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society. apophenia is her blog.

In this post, she relates a story from a friend of hers, who centralized virtually all of his online life (and therefore, his life) on Google products, only to have his account erased by Google because of a fraudulent phishing attack. The story raises concerns about storing all your data in one place and with one company.

Mozilla Labs B; Blog Archive B; Introducing Weave

Mozilla is currently testing out something called "Weave," a tool that would allow you to synchronize your content on multiple browsers, via a hosting option similar to what Google does.

This goes a step beyond Google, because Mozilla is, of course, a desktop application. So Mozilla Weave would have access to your desktop behavior and the stuff you store on their servers.

Network.com

Developed by Sun, it's a "networked supercomputer" for hardcore researchers. Google Docs this ain't.

Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: The Network is the Computer

Haven't read this yet, but it was linked to by the Slate article. Might be an important article.

Cloud computing is well and good, but it can't beat the desktop computer. - By Paul Boutin - Slate Magazine

A contrarian take on cloud computing from a reformed enthusiast.

Harper's Magazine: Evil

Article from Harper's Magazine about how much Google's server farms are polluting a river in the Pacific Northwest.

Google Docs--but at what cost?

Biddle Law Library: National Bankruptcy Archives

This is a test of some of the functions of PennTags.

In October 2000 the Biddle Law Library and the American College of Bankruptcy collaborated to create a special collection entitled the National Bankruptcy Archives (NBA), a national repository of materials relating to the history of debtor-creditor relations, bankruptcy and the reorganization of debt. The NBA collects records from the American College of Bankruptcy as well as from other organizations whose activities have been relevant to the history of bankruptcy and insolvency legislation, regulation, and administrative and judicial determination. The NBA also houses papers of individuals who have influenced the field, and other collections documenting the history of bankruptcy law.

Some of the records of the National Bankruptcy Archives are currently on display in the reference area of Biddle Law Library.

Patry on Copyright

Free culture : how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity

Code : and other laws of cyberspace / Lawrence Lessig.

Lessig, Lawrence. . Code : and other laws of cyberspace / Lawrence Lessig. [046503912X ] [New York, N.Y.] : Basic Books, c1999.
Call#: Van Pelt Library ZA3225 .L47 1999