Archive for October, 2004
Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
Why does "information want to be free"?
I think the phrase is a good way of explaining to most people that information is really hard to treat like property. The cost of reproduction and transportation is absurdly low, thus it is trivial to distribute freely, in the sense of "free as ...
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
Thanks to Pacanukeha for his comments on "Go with the flow...", they give me the opportunity to clarify the argument for compliance monitoring. The misunderstanding is probably the fault of the atrocious title of my post, therefore I have changed it - ah, the wonders of the blogosphere, where post ...
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2004
How do you control the flow of information in your organization? More importantly how to you secure these flows of information?
It is impractical to physically protect all of an organization's sensitive information from being copied and stolen, because it is so easy to move information. Lower costs of bandwidth, ...
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
The coming economic crisis in information
I enjoyed reading Adam Rifkin's back of the envelope calculations about personal information storage and processing. I'm looking forward to trying to make at least a few of the @20 Gigabytes of information I will deal with in my life really count. I know a ...
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2004
Monsieur Landry recently brandished that age old tool of opportunistic Quebec politicians - the promise of sovereignty. This comes hot on the heels of reports that Landry's leadership of the Parti Quebecois is faltering and that Quebec sovereignty is a lost cause with a new generation.
This situation called for bold ...
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