Can the web help fight corruption?

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

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 he will have the full force of the ...

We are the internet – so take back the internet!

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

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 from the edge rather than relying on carrier be it a ...

Freeconomics and the copybot: consequences for intellectual property

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

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 is fast becoming a cheap enough commodity to be offered ...

Canadian Network Neutrality

Monday, November 6th, 2006

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 get it. Unfortunately what's scary is neither do many of ...