Harvard Law Blogs

After Facebook fails

Making the rounds is The Facebook Fallacy, a killer essay by Michael Wolff in MIT Technology Review. The gist: At the heart of the Internet business is one of the great business fallacies of our ti…

Aaron Swartz v. United States

(echoes of a broken system) UPDATE: Aaron committed suicide on January 11, 2013.(!) More on his life here. Aaron Swartz is a friend and Cambridge-area polymath whose projects focus on access to kno…

How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall?

Philip Greenspun: Aaron Swartz

Is the new Zuckerberg fake charity an estate tax avoidance scheme?

Plea Bargaining and Torture in light of the Aaron Swartz case

Let’s help Airbnb rebuild the bridge it just burned

[Trieste, Italy, 12:02am Friday 21 May 2013 — As I say in the comments here, Airbnb has responded to this post, explaining that a bug in the system was involved. While that might patch Airbnb&#8217…

MIT alumni in their 50s

Maybe Americans aren't dumb enough to keep buying houses?

Philip Greenspun Reviews “Lean In”

The Audacity of Doing Nothing

How Rich Countries Die

Where does Google actually say that they won’t read Gmail or Google Docs?

What happens when an air traffic controller is asleep?

Earth to Mozilla: Come back home

In her blog post explaining the Brendan Eich resignation, Mitchell Baker, Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, writes, “We know why people are hurt and angry, and they are right: it’s because we …

Book review: Bad Pharma

Empty Mansions: Don’t be old and rich in New York City

Let G.M. go bankrupt

Philip Greenspun Visits Berkeley

How Wall Street is making its billions

Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (2005)

Unemployed = 21st century draft horse?

Cost of converting entire U.S. to electric cars? Zero.

Singularly Stupid

Technology reduces the value of old people