Therese Poletti in Market Watch reviews a book that I missed when it came out six months ago, but will surely catch up with – You Are Not a Gadget, by Jaron Lanier, described by the NYTimes in the words used as the title of this post. The NYT said: In [an earlier] manifesto Mr. [...]

Glassman interviews four individuals on the use of the online social economy towards dissidence against oppressive governments with a goal towards liberty or improved human rights. Additionally, the use by governments of social media to monitor communication or shut down dissident movements is also discussed.

I’ve stated before that “The real barrier to innovation isn’t the cost of bandwidth” and it looks like Netflix’s 10K filing confirms this.  Despite a huge increase in online content and users, bandwidth costs have barely risen.  However, it would seem that the US Postal Service is a significant and increasing cost to Netflix’s bottom [...]

The Rand Corporation has released Intellectual Property and Developing Countries: A review of the literature (2010), a report to “support[] the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and the Department for International Development (DfID) in assessing the impact of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in developing countries, in the context of the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on [...]

Earlier this week I pointed out how absurd it is whenever Net Neutrality advocates claim that the Internet is a place where all websites should load at the same speed. Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.) bemoaned that Foxnews might load faster than DailyKos without Net Neutrality. For fun, I decided to actually check if Foxnews loads faster than the DailyKos and found that the opposite was true! Is there a conspiracy going on?

When the media starts naming individuals in the UK who hold 1/5th of the key escrow for restoring the root key of DNSSEC in case of emergency, it makes me cringe for the sake of that individual’s security and the security of DNSSEC. It matters not that DNSSEC isn’t really a practical target if it’s perceived to be a valuable target.

The FCC Broadband Report is a yearly report on the advancement of broadband throughout the United States. The point of this report is so that Congress and the FCC can analyze potential barriers to investment or deployment and used regulation or deregulation to improve the situation.

I remember my senior year high school physics competition where I managed to boil a half-liter bottle of water (painted black) in under 7 minutes using my mother’s cooking wok covered by some reflective tin foil.  With that lesson in mind, it comes as no surprise to me that you can get just about any [...]

Josh Levy over at FreePress is very, very excited today because it has been determined that jailbreaking your iPhone is not a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This of course in his opinion is a huge win for openness and will of course (I wish he would explain how.) lead to open wireless networks.

Jeff Jarvis wrote a book titled What Would Google Do?, blurbed as explaining why “Google is not just a company, it is an entirely new way of thinking,” so it surprises not that his recent post in Buzz Machine, “Google takes the FTC to school,” chortles about how Google’s comments (July 20, 2010) on the [...]