Going Down the Tubes: The Illegal-ization of Culture

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

We've all heard the platitude before: today's culture is going down the tubes. In recent history, major conduits for cultural influence have been "talking machines" (radio) and "boob tubes" (TV). More recently we have the rapid increase in influence of the internet (also composed of "tubes" if you listen to ...

Network Neutrality = Internet Freedom

Monday, June 12th, 2006

Network neutrality is a really bad name from a marketing perspective if we want to get folks interested in saving the internet. There is no mention of either the internet itself or what is at stake! Let's start calling it the “internet freedom” debate. Folks care of about liberty. Freedom ...

Nudecybot asks a ninja about network neutrality

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Wow its been awhile and I have far more to write about than ever before. I'm going to start with something that lots of people have been wondering about lately "what's the issue network neutrality." C'mon don't deny it! I will make it easy on myself and especially on you ...

Skype’d out

Wednesday, July 28th, 2004

This is a moment we have been waiting for. Skype, an innovator in voice over internet technology (VoIP) has long offered free beta software that is best described as an internet phone with the ease of use of an instant messenger. This is a cross-platform product (Win, Mac, Linux, ...