In “Journalism Needs Government Help” (Wall Street Journal, July 14) Columbia President Lee Bollinger urges public support for both press and broadcasting, which are reeling financially as “proliferation of communications outlets has fractured the base of advertising and readers.” He argues that the current system, or perhaps one should say the late system, was a [...]

The fact is that people have always been free to create art without a “corporate middleman”, question the media and do their own reporting, organize and protest, make their content free and pursue unconventional business models.

This is not new. Pointing out that people can also do this on the Internet does not mean The Internet Has Changed Everything. It just means people can continue doing these things in a different medium.

It has been my experience that people are unlikely to shill for someone they disagree with philosophically just because of a check. I’ve seen people try, and they usually end up with horrible reputations and a different line of work.

Now it appears that Skype once again appears to be wielding their API terms of use as a weapon against competitors, is the FCC going to play API cop like they did in the Google Voice App case?

So much is going on in the world of content and intellectual property that it is hard to keep up – the release of the 2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement, the Viacom/YouTube and Flyonthewall cases, the Immigration & Customs Enforcement’s “In Our Sites” offensive against movie piracy, the negotiations over the Anti-Counterfeiting [...]

I was taking another look through Morgan Stanley’s Mobile Internet Report from December and a graph caught my eye that pretty much sums up the reason mobile carriers are doing away with the all-you-can-eat pricing model. It’s somewhat hard to see in the image above, but if you’re interested, click through to the report and [...]

Department of Commerce at the Intersection of Privacy and Innovation Center for Democracy & Technology June 25, 2010 CDT has released a short policy piece on how the Department of Commerce should handle the issue of privacy versus innovation in the technology era. They break this down into four areas, and each is focused on [...]

No more Firehose – it must be written off as an experiment that did not work. The problems were many – it was too much material (dare I say, “a Firehose”) without sufficient organization or adequate explanation of how the olio of materials related to the digital society generally or to the interests and mission [...]

With Google Android starting to dominate the smartphone market (not to mention the other platforms like Blackberry and Microsoft), I do find it surprising that this “monopoly” lawsuit against the iPhone is getting traction.  The market clearly knows how to deal with this particular situation and many people (myself included) can vote with our wallets [...]

Google just announced that YouTube will now support “original” resolutions of up to “4096P”, but it’s actually a maximum of 3072P narrowscreen or 2304P widescreen. This announcement makes it sound as if our computers and broadband connection lags Google YouTube when YouTube is actually the weakest link. YouTube’s biggest problem is their over compressed “HD” video that looks nothing like HD video.