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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
Can the web help fight corruption?
Lessig turns his keen insight and trademark presentation style towards the analysis of corruption as he steps away from 10 years of focusing on intellectual property issues and their impacts on culture, creativity and innovation. I wish him luck as … Continue reading
The Web as operating system
Alistair, who has been writing recently at GigaOM, puts together the most lucid synthesis I have seen on the topic of the “Web OS.” Big Internet companies are making themselves the OS of the web 2.0 world. In addition to … Continue reading
Taking ownership of information highways
Bob Frankston continues his exploration of alternative information infrastructure ownership. He wonders, with the media (copper wires, fiber optics and radio waves) essentially commodity, what do we get from services providers that we cannot more efficiently provide for ourselves? With … Continue reading
Internet Black Holes
Reporters sans frontiers rally against “internet black holes” – sectors of the internet where liberty is severely restricted: This map is a tad simplistic, being more about black and white than shades of grey – and its the shades of … Continue reading
We are the internet – so take back the internet!
Bob Frankston hits the “network neutrality” nail squarely on the head in his article “Our Internet!” We are the Internet…We don’t need be given “Internet” by a central authority because the defining principle is that we can and must connect … Continue reading
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Intelligence 2.0
The NYTimes has an interesting article (login required) about efforts in the US intelligence community to harness the power of “web 2.0″ blogs, wikis and social networking in the interest of more efficient collaboration: Something had gone horribly awry, Burton … Continue reading
Freeconomics and the copybot: consequences for intellectual property
Chris Anderson of Long Tail fame “cheekily” coins freeconomics as shorthand for his more recent thesis on “economics of abundance“. (I should mention that he does so with apologies to Freakonomics) Anderson points out how technology that was once scarce … Continue reading
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DMCA exceptions granted
The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a law in the United States which criminalizes technology which circumvents copyright. It has been widely criticized. Ed Felten at Freedom to Tinker reports some exceptions to the DMCA were recently granted: … Continue reading
Canadian Network Neutrality
Canadian internet “watchdog” Michael Geist points out that there are forces at work threatening so-called “network neutrality” or as I prefer to frame the issue: internet freedom. Of particular concern is Videotron’s president Robert Depatie who proves he just doesn’t … Continue reading