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The Googlization of the world occasionally provides unique — or bizarre — insight into what people are thinking or interested it. That is particularly true with its search autocomplete feature. As you type, it suggests potential searches reflect “the search activity of all web users and the content of web pages indexed by Google.” (Autocomplete [...]            Tim April 18th, 2013 | Tags: autocomplete, Google, Internet | Category: Blog/Internet | Leave a comment |  Print This Post |  Email This PostAlthough it was somewhat of a secondary issue, there was an interesting decision this week from the South Dakota Supreme Court. It held that a person has no privacy interest in their IP address, at least for purposes of the constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure. To begin with, an IP address is the [...] Tim January 11th, 2013 | Tags: Internet, Law, privacy, South Dakota Supreme Court | Category: Law, Technology | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostTwo years ago, I asked whether The Book Depository, the U.K.’s largest online bookstore, would complement Amazon or compete with it. The end result? Amazon is buying it. The sale is going to be looked at by the U.K.;s Office of Fair Trading and has sparked fears the deal will “tighten the American company’s ‘stranglehold’ [...] Tim July 5th, 2011 | Tags: Amazon, Books, bookstores, Internet | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostLast December 1, blogs were explicitly brought within the scope of updated Federal Trade Commission guidelines on rules governing the use of endorsements and testimonials in advertising. The FTC last month quietly posted on its web site the “closing letter” of its first investigation involving blogs under the rules. The FTC investigated whether the Ann [...] Tim May 3rd, 2010 | Tags: blogs, Internet, Law, technology | Category: Blog/Internet | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostAs I indicated Friday, I saw too many years of the legislative sausage-making process to really want to weigh in on the so-called “blogger bills” in the state House, particularly at this early stage. But the blogospheric lines seem so sharply drawn (with attendant personality conflicts) when it seems somewhat unnecessary. There’s no sense arguing [...] Tim February 8th, 2010 | Tags: blogs, Internet, Law, South Dakota issues | Category: Blog/Internet, Law, State and local matters | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostOne of the problems with the interweb is often you at times see the ultimate layout only after the fact, especially if another site or server is populating the page with ads. At least that’s what I’m attributing this bit of ad placement to in a Slate blog post aboutHarper’s Magazine: Adding some irony [...] Tim February 3rd, 2010 | Tags: blogs, Internet, technology | Category: Blog/Internet | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostYou would think I would automatically hail the advent of a new interweb book review site, especially one created by a well-respected national magazine. But I can’t say The New Republic did much to entice me when it announced its new online book review, The Book. In an online letter to “Friends of Books and [...] Tim January 14th, 2010 | Tags: blog, Books, Internet, journalism, Media | Category: A Reading Life, Blog/Internet | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostIn the scheme of life, the universe and everything, it’s no big deal. But it does kind of piss me off so you’ll have to forgive this rant as I vent a bit. When I post a bunch of links in Weekend Edition or Friday Follies, I use “Via” to link to whomever led me [...] Tim November 19th, 2009 | Tags: blog, blogs, Internet, Rants | Category: Blog/Internet, Rants | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostOf all the constitutional guarantees, one most Americans are familiar with is the Fourth Amendment. In its entirety, it states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by [...] Tim November 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Internet, Law | Category: Blog/Internet, Law | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostAlthough saying it was adopting “no hard and fast rule,” the South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld an order granting a new trial in a case where a juror did a Google search on a defendant two months before being called for jury duty and happened to mention the search during jury deliberations. In Russo [...] Tim September 17th, 2009 | Tags: Internet, Law, South Dakota Supreme Court, technology | Category: Law | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This Post |
      
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