By Albert Wenger—Mar 19, 2012

It is easy to dismiss Rick Santorum’s promised war on pornography as more moralizing from a candidate who apparently questions the separation of church and state. But it exposes an important fault line in thinking about the Internet when seen in conjunction with Nick Kristof’s call in this Sunday’s […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Mar 16, 2012

This week I have been trying out a new approach to meetings. Instead of using up the entire time in the calendar for the meeting itself, I am trying to keep the meeting a bit shorter (45 minutes in the case of a previously 1 hour meeting). I then use the 10 minutes afterwards for […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Brad Burnham—Mar 14, 2012

Last night, I had the honor of speaking at the Center For Democracy and Technology’s 2012 Annual Dinner. Here is what I shared with the audience: I started working in technology 30 years ago and for most of that time thought that the work I did had very little to do with policy. Back then, […] Read more

By Albert Wenger—Mar 14, 2012

If Yahoo had any shred of credibility left with developers then it has succeeded in destroying that with its misguided patent lawsuit against Facebook. But the suit isn’t all bad. It has the potential to become a catalytic event for broader social awareness of the perils of software patents, […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Mar 13, 2012

In last week’s Tech Tuesday we learned about HTML which is used to describe the content of a web page. Today, we will inspect something called Cascading Style Sheets (or CSS for short) which determines what that content looks like. All of this belongs to Step 7 of the web cycle where the web browser […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Mar 12, 2012

Every company should have a Board Of Directors. At the start it can simply be a one person board consisting of the founder. But it should not stay that way for long. Because if you are your own board, you won't get any of the benefits that come with having a board. These benefits include, […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)