February 7, 2012
You may have heard of ACTA, which is essentially Hollywood buying legislation to globally enforce its views on copyright. Kader Arif, the European Parliament’s rapporteur, resigned over the issue this past Friday. Emil Boc, Prime Minister of Romania, also resigned, … Continue reading
February 2, 2012
CHALLENGE: Twitter announces censorship policy, followed closely by Google’s Blogger platform. According to the Wired.com article, Facebook also regularly practices censorship. Validating censorship by saying it’s ‘just business’ is repugnant behavior in a modern society, equivalent to keeping the peasants … Continue reading
January 31, 2012
Steve Case, ex-CEO of AOL (which is notably absent from his truncated biography) opines on his TechCrunch article You’ve Stopped SOPA, Now Let’s Startup America: “Young high-growth companies have created 40 million American jobs in the past three decades thirty … Continue reading
January 31, 2012
Banksy: “The people who run our cities don’t understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit. The people who truly deface our neighborhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings … Continue reading
January 30, 2012
Paul Graham writing for Y Combinator, an investment firm that seeds capital to start-up companies: “Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of … Continue reading
January 5, 2012
Beautifully crafted article by William Deresiewicz entitled Solitude and Leadership, originally delivered as a lecture to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October 2009. Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it … Continue reading
January 3, 2012
Excellent article concerning randomness via Steven Novella at the Neurologica Blog. Words are ideas and ideas can be sharp or fuzzy – fuzzy ideas lead to fuzzy thinking. An obstacle to using language precisely is that words often have multiple … Continue reading
January 3, 2012
I ride my bike to work. It’s healthy and I enjoy it – probably because I feel truly free on the ride to work. I’ve also committed to riding my bike through the entire winter, if possible. Obviously, if there’s … Continue reading
December 12, 2011
Book publishers are on the cusp of the Change from physical media to digital media and distribution. And I’m hoping, crossing my fingers they’ve watched the gravity surrounding that shift when it altered the music industry, bloated in bureaucracy and gluttonous on … Continue reading