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What Should Public Libraries Offer?
Albert Wenger – Jul 15, 2013
Not that long ago when I was still living in the suburbs the next town over embarked on a massive construction project for a big new public library. I recall thinking at the time: but what will they put there? [...] Read more
Apple Ebook Pricing: A Case Study in Collusion
Albert Wenger – Jul 11, 2013
It is well worth reading the arstechnica piece on the Apple ebook price collusion verdict in full. This is the perfect case study of what happens in markets where some participants have too much power. It is fascinating to see [...] Read more
Looking for Guides (Tutors) for Our Children
Albert Wenger – Jul 10, 2013
We are excited about going back to homeschooling for our three children after the summer vacation. The goal is for each of them to explore one or more interests and use those to motivate learning and skill building. In order [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Backup
Albert Wenger – Jul 9, 2013
For startups, backup is a lot like security, something you need to have but not something that’s really visible to endusers or that endusers even care about unless of course things go terribly wrong! So in today’s Tech Tuesday I [...] Read more
Back to Homeschooling!
Albert Wenger – Jul 8, 2013
When we moved back to the city at the beginning of 2012 we experimented for 6 months with homeschooling our kids. They then spent last year at Avenues, a new school in Manhattan. Avenues is a startup (and of course [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: More on Prioritization
Albert Wenger – Jul 2, 2013
Last Tech Tuesday, I wrote about a heuristic for prioritization. If you took that approach to its extreme you would always work on only the lowest hanging fruit (at the time). That would of course be an over simplification for [...] Read more
On the Relation Between Privacy And DRM
Albert Wenger – Jul 1, 2013
In the future we can’t have privacy for the same reason that the record labels and Hollywood can’t have DRM and that’s ultimately a good thing. DRM has proven a fool’s errand because it is not compatible with general purpose [...] Read more
Google Glass Update
Albert Wenger – Jun 27, 2013
I wrote before that I am quite bullish on certain professional and niche personal applications of Google Glass but find the adoption strategy puzzling. Having just tried Glass for the first time I feel quite comfortable with both of these [...] Read more
Contracts: Defining Future Negotiations
Albert Wenger – Jun 26, 2013
Contracts are necessary to doing business but surprisingly many people miss a central point about them: they define the starting point for future negotiations. Where you actually wind up as an outcome depends on both the contract and external factors [...] Read more