A historical collection of our writing.
I have long been a fan of the UK’s Guardian. They have embraced the internet like no other newspaper publisher. One of my favorite examples of the many great things they have done was the crowdsourced investigation of the expenses of Members of Parliament. Now they are kicking off a seven day […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday at the Center for Civic Media, our lunch guest was S. Craig Watkins, a professor at UT Austin working on a variety of projects under the heading of “Connected Learning”. In his blog post about the idea, Dr. Watkins defines this as: the increasingly complex ways in which young people’s […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
The Department of Justice earlier this week sued several large publishers and Apple over alleged collusion surrounding the agency arrangement for the sale of ebooks. The legal situation here is quite complicated as should be evident from the fact that Random House which does have agency agreements […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I wrote a blog post last week about the current Privacy Theater in the US, where the government is simultaneously pushing stricter privacy regulations and huge backdoors that would completely undermine privacy. The backdoors come in the form of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act or […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In the past few days I’ve seen a few things happen that demonstrate that what were once tech concepts or principles have seeped into non-Internet world, and are being applied in places maybe they were not originally intended, but to great effect. First, I serendipitously met a woman who runs major […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Andy Baio provided an excellent perspective on Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram by analyzing the price per active user. This analysis shows that at about $30 per user this deal is far below many previous acquisitions. It also indicates that Yahoo’s acquisition of Broadcast.com continues to stand […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
