Steve Yost has a nicely written meditation on Borges’ critique of the reification of the self, complete with a twist Aha ending.

Jonathan Peterson, contemplating the conversation on DRM at Kevin Marks’ MediAgora (and at Norlin‘s site), quotes a LawMeme excerpt of a Chronicle of Higher Education article:

Back in the 20th century, if someone had accused you of copyright infringement, you enjoyed that quaint and now seemingly archaic guarantee of due process. Today, due process is a lot harder to pursue, and the burden of proof increasingly is on those accused of copyright infringement. For the copyright act, in essence, makes the owner of every Internet service provider, content host, and search engine an untrained copyright cop. The default action is censorship.

Some high visibility folks are talking about “Technology’s Impact on Democracy” at the e-thepeople site.

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