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The (copy)fight against digital culture, and intellectual privelege
It takes (sci-fi) author Cory Doctorow to put it sufficiently lucidly: the internet is designed to efficiently and inexpensively copy information and has flourished as a result, therefore traditional copyright in the age of the web is a direct attack … Continue reading
A cartoon guide to new Google web browser
Well I was thinking Amazon’s SAN in the cloud was going to be the biggest web application news of 2008. But that just got trumped by Google’s new web browser, touted by many as an “operating system for the web.” … Continue reading
Personal update
Heri at Montreal Tech Watch broke the news that my web infrastructure services company Syntenic has a new (beta) webpage. I have no doubt that my amazing wife’s blog pulls in more visitors than I do, so I am hoping … Continue reading
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Search gets smarter, we get stupider
A lot has been written lately on how intelligent search will solve all kinds of problems, most recently in The End of Theory, Chris Anderson of “long tail” fame confuses the abundance of low hanging fruit that “big search” and … Continue reading
Cloud computing – linear utility or complex ecosystem?
Reuven of Enomaly speculates on whether there will be an analogue of Moore’s law for cloud computing, looking to coin “Ruv’s law.” I would like to see more detail on what it would postulate, presumably a linear relationship between growth … Continue reading
Awesome Magnetic Visualization
Semiconductor’s Magnetic Movie is a stunning, if questionably accurate visualization of magnetic fields and their interactions. Worth a watch: Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
Goaltender, Bitcurrent, and Miscelania
Finally got www.goalr.net into the Heroku private beta which will allow the private domain and e-mail functionality that our “Goaltender” application relies upon to both gather our weekly goals and followup on them. Just posted to Bitcurrent on the future … Continue reading
Android – one step closer to freedom of communication
Like most heavy cellphone users I have a love hate relationship with both the device and the wireless service. Love because it gives me freedom from a physical location and thus is an essential business enabler for entrepreneurs. Hate because … Continue reading
Infreemation: just the facts
Apologies to RSS subscribers who will no doubt be affected by my blog consolidation. I’m pulling in all of the posts from www.infreemation.net and rebranding this blog Infreemation. Why the consolidation? Most of what I write in both blogs is … Continue reading
A dark matter: structure of the universe influenced by dark forces?
The indispensable New Scientist reports that the distribution of dark matter has been mapped in 3D for the first time, revealing how the mysterious substance has evolved over the lifetime of the universe. The results confirm that dark matter provided … Continue reading