Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.

When something online is free, you're not the customer, you're the product.

Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.

When I worry about privacy I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary. And I think that does change a lot our sense of what is going on in our neighborhoods.

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.

The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.