Tag Archives: Law & Policy

Does google make libel easier?

By alex | Published: 7/17/2005
One of the elements of libel is that you have to clearly identify the person you are talking about. Traditionally, this meant naming them, or otherwise indicating who they were in a way that was identifiable by a large number of people. In the Style section of the New York Times today is an essay […]
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Self-service

By alex | Published: 7/10/2005
The Buffalo News recentle ran a story on self-service (ATMs, self-check-in kiosks, retail self-checkout, self-service prescriptions, etc.) that featured a photograph of the back of my head and a brief quote. A colleague here at UB (Neil Yerkey asked me how well the short quote reflected my real view. This is how I answered: My […]
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Google’s secrets?

By alex | Published: 6/16/2005
For Monday’s seminar, we will be talking about the controversial issue of “search engine optomization.” Google has recently filed a patent for its search process (let’s all look forward to the upcoming intellectual propertay wars among the largest search providers!), and some practical advice for placement based on this is provided in Great Site Ranking […]
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What Is Torture?

By alex | Published: 6/4/2005
Slate has an interactive primer on American interrogation. It concludes: It is not true, as many in the Arab world believe, that the United States has embarked on a reckless campaign of torture and abuse of its Arab prisoners of war. But what has happened—a slow slide from coherent, consistent standards for interrogation and treatment […]
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