Category Archives: politicsSam Sethi picked the wrong blogger to lie to–repeatedly. That blogger was Oliver Starr. Apparently, he hasn’t been paid since Blognation was started. Repeated promises of payment and funding were made, but nothing came of it.
Reading the comments on the TechCrunch story about this, you see a couple of the other Blognation editors in other […]
Looks and sounds an awful lot like School House Rock…
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I want to be clear: I’m talking about regular DVDs, not Blueray or HD. I’m also not talking about making copies for my friends, or other people on the Internet. I’m talking about making a copy for backup purposes.
One simple reason I want to do this: the kids aren’t exactly “gentle” with the DVDs. For […]
It seems that politicians like to try and do what’s best for us by protecting us from ourselves. They pass things like seatbelt laws–wear one or we can ticket you. The latest, of course, is the series of state laws forbidding or restricting the use of mobile phones while driving.
The latest salvo in the war […]
It’s nice to see my employer is happy with the recent decision by the FCC to require companies that purchase spectrum in the upcoming 700MHz actions to actually permit any compatible device to connect. While I certainly applaud that as a consumer (not speaking for Nokia), I would like it even more if they applied […]
At least according to the guys at Torrent Freak. This isn’t a surprise, really. When you have a broadband connection and can download CDs in under an hour, or a DVD in a few hours, and you have a CD/DVD burner, why bother with buying physical media?
Of course, I am not advocating piracy here, but […]
More off the Google Reader. Funny, my starred list has gotten bigger…
The US a Third World Communications Country: I have to agree with Rich Tehrani. We do live in a third-world country when it comes to communications. That’s what happens when you have a very powerful oligopoly controlling the entire telecommunications space.
Verizon pwns Vonage: To […]
There is an ongoing debate about the fact that teachers aren’t real fond of camera phones being in schools because, well, their tirades can end up all over YouTube.My employer, Nokia, has sold more digital cameras embedded in mobile phones than many manufacturers of standalone digital cameras have sold. In fact, the proliferation of digital […]
As you may have noticed, I’ve slowed down a bit on blogging. Writing hasn’t exactly been flowing freely from my fingertips the past week or so. Not that there isn’t anything going on out there, just nothing I find terribly interesting. I’m also somewhat behind on the RSS feeds. Well, at least my two email […]
dvorak.org slash blog highlights an article on Slate about the argument for abolishing the FCC in the US of A. The basic idea for creating the FCC in the first place was that radio spectrum was considered to be a “scarce” resource and that a government agency needed to be created to help manage that […]
Uber PR/blogging guy Andy Abramson thinks that 2007 CES will be big for bloggers. Specifically, he thinks they should as important, if not more important than the mainstream media in covering these events. Bloggers–both with and without press passes–will be wandering the halls, documenting what they see, and making it available in real-time.
This isn’t any […]
There are some days where I am glad that there are smart people like Jeff Pulver and sites like Techdirt around to wade through all the fanfare to find the real truth behind the new concessions offered by AT&T in wake of the the stalled merger with BellSouth. It’s basically a lot of flowery language […]
How can the MPAA sue a company operating in Russia for violating US Copyright laws when they have no physical operations here in the US? Well apparently, they are going to try, and AllOfMP3 basically says “bring it on.” It would be like China suing me for operating phoneboy.com here in the US. Absolutely ludicrous. […]
Here are a few random things that happened today in the blogosphere. Given it’s a holiday weekend, it’s relatively quiet:
Ken Camp got the lifeblog.php script I found and hacked on working on his WordPress installations. At least one satisfied customer…
Andy Abramson is showing off SightSpeed and broadband in France.
Can someone please tell SCO to STFU […]
I love how this McDowell guy, who used to work for a lobbying firm that worked against AT&T and BellSouth, basically told the other FCC guys: I have a conflict of interest. I can not and will not vote on this. You guys can figure this out. I wish we had more policitians in Washington […]
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