I had the opportunity to speak yesterday at Money Tech 2008…
The conference, hosted by O’Reily Media right here in New York, was focused on the convergence of Web 2.0 and Wall Street.
I took the opportunity to talk abstractly about the process of information discovery, and how it has changed since the arrival of […]
Keep a very close eye on ACAP…
A broad collection of content publishers have banded together to form a standards group call ACAP - Automated Content Access Protocol. They released the first version of their proposed standard yesterday. The goal of this standard is to give publishers a means of controlling how their content […]
The internet is at the heart of the current Writers’ Guild strike…
One of the core issues behind this strike is a demand for participation in the revenue that comes from online distribution of media. Writers currently receive no royalties for shows sold or distributed over the internet, and only a token royalty from the […]
Technology issues rarely get respect on the campaign trail…
Despite technology’s critical role in our society, you don’t usually hear candidates talk much about their positions on technology related issues. In a short speech at Google yesterday, Barack Obama did just that. With many candidates that - short of blackberries - are probably pretty […]
The status quo no longer cuts it…
Over the past several decades, our national dependence on imported oil has always been problematic, and it’s starting to become a crisis. One recent issue has been the sharp increase in crude oil prices:
Part of this price spike is being driven by speculation rather than actual market supply […]
The verdict is in…
After just 4 hours of deliberation, the jury has come back and found Jammie Thomas guilty of “willful infringement” and assessed a fine of $9,250 per song. (That comes out to $222,000 total for the 24 songs specified in the suit).
This verdict is really disappointing to me…
It isn’t the outcome itself […]
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