intellectual freedom

05 Sep

EFF and Bloggers' Rights

Posted by scott in blogs, intellectual freedom, intellectual property, techculture

The EFF has a handy guide to blogger rights. It's a bit skewed towards political bloggers, but is still a nice primer. The site also has some good links to EFF classics like How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else).

If you're teaching a course that uses blogs or a course that explores the use of blogs, the EFF's "new" page looks to be a nice resource for students and for class/blog discussions. If admins in your department or university are worried about blogs and legal issues then send them to EFF or summarize EFF's position and remind them of the pedagogical benefits of blogging.

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23 Aug

Stand in my light, pease, sir

Posted by glmaranto in blogs, intellectual freedom, techculture, timewasting, universities

Today, NPR's All Things Considered ran a report on policies in the workplace regarding restrictions on employee use of the internet. As I listened to the "expert" from the ePolicy Institute (TM) (for which I don't seem to find a website more current than 2004--someone help me out here--and which has a relatively unclear relationship to the American Management Association), I thought about what it might mean if my fellow Composition instructors and I were, as many Americans laboring in the vineyards of non-academia are, limited in our access to the internet.

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