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He's doing well, although the recovery is going slower than he'd like. Men well, ethanz.[Tags: ethan_zuckerman ]

The Berkman Center has announced the launch of the Publius Papers, a collection of short essays (op-ed length) about the various ways constitutional moments the Internet is going through, from formal declarations to norms and nuances. The essays are

Parade magazine today reports on the top ten names for baby boys and girls this year:JacobEmilyMichaelIsabellaEthanEmmaJoshuaAvaDanielMadisonChristopherSophiaAn thonyOliviaWilliamAbigailMatthewHannahAndrewElizabethOk, but I seem to meet more and more

Hypothesis: Entertainments in which the actors are visibly having a good time with one another, and are winking at the audience, don't age well.Evidence: Rat Pack movies. Burt Reynolds movies. Jimmy Fallon sketches.Evidence to the contrary: _________

Oh, I am so about to make a fool of myself in public... I now have a D-Link DNS-323 plugged into my home network. It's a network storage device that I want to use as a centralized backup for my family's various computers because some of us don't alw

When I blogged about Flyp on Tuesday, I didn't know it was about to run an article about Charlie Nesson's poker university, a place where students learn about life by playing poker online. The article is short and showy, but it'll give you the idea..

Footnote has posted the 1860 Census with its usual array of tools and goodies, some of which require a free membership. But the basic browsing and viewing is open to all. Footnote does a nice job with this stuff, including annotation tools and other

I've taken the title of Sharon Richardson's post at JoiningDots because it's so apt. She writes:What's weird from an information and context perspective is how remote this disaster feels, compared to other events such as the Tsunami, Hurrican Katrina

Moveon.org is recommending that we donate to the International Burmese Monks Organization, which already has a network of local people in place. Moveon.org thinks that money donated to the monks via Avaaz.org is more likely to do good quickly there.

The Harvard Law faculty has voted unanimously for an Open Access policy based on the one that the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences passed a few months ago. Yay! John Palfrey, Harvard Law's new vice dean for library and information resources (and