January, 2008

  1. SmugMug Lives Up to Its Name

    Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped created a mini-storm this week when he discovered a major security hole in the way photo-sharing site SmugMug.Com implements its privacy settings for photos people have uploaded to the site. Unfortunately, SmugMug’s reaction so far has been very…well…smug. People who post photos on SmugMug want to be able to share…

  2. John Steel Gordon on Democratic Opposition to Free Trade

    In the February 2008 issue of Commentary, John Steele Gordon has a nice look at the increasing opposition within the Democratic Party to free trade. As Gordon notes in Look Who’s Afraid of Free Trade, this is a surprising turn of events since historically it has been the Democrats who supported free trade while Republicans…

  3. MPAA’s “Human Error”

    Once upon a time, the MPAA told a fairy tale that 44 percent of its domestic losses due to piracy were due to college students. It used that fairy tale to push policies and legislation targeting colleges and universities. But now — oops — due to “human error”, it turns out that at best the…

  4. Canada Pulls Out of UN Racism Conference

    The Associated Press reports that Canada has withdrawn from next year’s planned United Nations Conference on Racism planned for South Africa. Like the previous UN Conference on Racism in 2001, this one is slated to be yet another UN Conference on Israeli Bashing. As Salon noted in its coverage of the 2001 Conference, the Conference…