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- Young man yells at cloud
- Doctorow has valid concerns. Networks are not yet built to handle massive use of clouds. The legal environment for cloud users is, well, cloudy. Fact is these are early days. In PC time it's 1978. In Internet time it's still 1994. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Doctorow, Internet, Desktops, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Doctorow: HDTV is a Trojan Horse. DRM is the payload
- Doctorow: HDTV is a Trojan Horse. DRM is the payloadI believe it's referred to ..as dinosaurs mating.Funny how, wherever these big dinosaurs are (entertainment, telecom), there are regulations and laws nearby to prolong the death.dbTraditional media ...... is just a bunch of control freaks fighting against the inevitable.The best...
- Tags: digital-rights management, Doctorow, DRM IS, HDTV, regulation, trojan horse
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
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- Internet: A threat to government or the other way around? (Part 4)
- internet and governmentI'm glad I read this, it was interesting. Not as informative as it might have been - I would have liked to see some actual cases and decisions cited - but it raised interesting issues. However, what really struck me is that this article needs a good copy...
- Tags: Vertical industries, government, Part 4, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Young man yells at cloud
- Nice theory, but..."Or as Mark Twain once said, ?Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket.?"But isn't moving to the "cloud" putting all your eggs all in one basket...and that all you can do is watch...because you have NO control over it.And how about when your "cloud"...
- Tags: Desktops, Thin clients, SECURITY, Young Man
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Hands-on with the Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600
- BooksDid you get the Cory Doctorow books from Project Gutenberg? If so, what format did you download them in?Connectivity?The Sony sounds like it's worth a look, but I didn't see much about connectivity. Does the PRS-600 include lifetime free wireless like the Kindle, or must it be tethered...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Reader, Adobe PDF, Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600, Sony Reader Touch Edition, Hands-On
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Google Books privacy debate: Whose side are you on?
- I was listening to NPR yesterday, and one story lingered with me throughout the day. So, I figured I'd take it to the blogs and see what you all have to say about the matter. Here's the deal: Some authors have mixed feelings...
- Tags: Google Inc., Privacy, Security, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Wattpad 1.4.0 (Mobile)
- Wattpad gives you free instant access to over 100,000 titles including: - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; - War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells; - Printcrime by Cory Doctorow; - Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare; - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; - The Curious Case of...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Mobile, Wattpad, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components
- Software downloads 2009-07-09
- Required summer reading: Neuromancer turns 25
- Required summer reading: Neuromancer turns 25other booksya it is a good bookif ya want one that is more inrestingtry WEBSPINNERSAnother suggestionLittle Brother by Cory Doctorow
- Tags: Neuromancer
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
- Sarkozy's Draconian downloading law to pass, then die
- In an amazing example of government stupidity, the French Parliament is poised to pass a law that punishes illegal downloaders where it really hurts -- cutting off Internet access -- and would create the first government bureaucracy dedicated to hunting down serial copyright violators. ...
- Tags: Law, Nicolas Sarkozy, Sarkozy, HADOPI, Government, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Wattpad for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)
- The Wattpad ereader has been downloaded over two million times and now you can be a part of this exciting, new way of reading on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Wattpad gives you free instant access to over 100,000 titles including Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, War of the Worlds by...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Wattpad, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-04-28
- How to make freemium pay
- How to make freemium payI don't like the sound of 'freemium'It is as free as crippleware and trialware was for the desktop apps.I hate them and and moving the same concept from the desktop to the web is no innovation to me.Freemium, or FreeLunch ?SaaS companies taking this approach...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, Acrobat.com, Phil
- Discussion threads 2009-03-10
- LHC, Genomics and the era of massive data sets
- The world won't end when the Large Hadron Collider makes its anticipated first collision of high-energy particles later this month, but it will produce an explosion of data. The LHC will produce as much data in a single day of experimentation as many scientists dealt with in a lifetime only...
- Tags: Data, Data Set, Policies And Procedures, Benefits, Robots, Wiki, Strategy, Human Resources, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- EclipseCon 2008: Fake Steve Jobs, Microsoft, E4, and more
- EclipseCon 2008 opens Monday at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara CA. The schedule for the week includes a trio of interesting keynote speakers, a ton of technical sessions, and a tinge of controversy over the future of Eclipse development. The first day will be...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, EclipseCon, Microsoft Corp., Eclipse, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- Follow-up: Build-A-Bear says it will take privacy suggestions to heart
- There were lots of reactions to my last post about Build-A-Bear luring kids and parents into divulging personal information they might otherwise, in other contexts, guard more closely. While some responses channeled Scott McNealy, most seemed to get that my beef was not with the fact of the data...
- Tags: Information, Build-A-Bear, Privacy Policy, Upshot, E-mail, Online Communications, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-01-26
- Harvesting data from children with cuddly creatures and cutesy keyboards
- And you thought Beacon is was creepy. Yesterday I had my first experience at a Build-A-Bear Workshop store. Build-A-Bear, if you're not familiar with it, is a publicly traded company headquartered in St. Louis, MO, with some 350 retail outlets worldwide. ...
- Tags: Kid, Keyboards, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Peripherals, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- What that RIAA/CD rip court brief really says
- There's a lot of misinformation floating around the blogosphere about what exactly the (hiss, boo) Recording Industry Association of America is saying in a court brief about the very act of ripping your CDs, converting them to MP3s, and then storing them on your hard drive...
- Tags: Hard Drive, P2P, RIAA, Keyphrase, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Larry Dignan loans me his Kindle
- Larry Dignan loans me his Kindlemeanwhile....While you are waiting for the textbook capable Kindle you could try this for free: http://www.booksinmyphone.comThe provide public domain and creative commons works (doctorow? stross?) that you can download into your java enabled cell phone. The phone screen is small but within a few minutes...
- Tags: phone screen, textbook, Larry Dignan
- Discussion threads 2007-12-07
- Facebook: Of the people but not for or by the people?
- It's no wonder the Social Web--the Internet with the concept of people and relationships embedded in the fabric (what Sir Tim Berners-Lee calls the Giant Global Graph)--has become such a controversial topic. It's a kind of spontaneous, greedy gold rush for the social networks to accumulate members, exploit the social...
- Tags: Facebook, MoveOn.org, Cory, Social Networking, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Why McLuhan was right when it comes to attention
- Through his always enriching podcast, I've heard Cory Doctorow give variations on his privacy talk at least five or six times over the last year. The most current iteration is available at Intel's/Josh Bancroft's BitStories. In responding to an audience question, Cory explains exactly why, when it comes...
- Tags: Message, Liberty, Computer, Cory, Productivity, Podcasts, Internet, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Apple: You're too dumb to make your own technology decisions
- I was reading TechCrunch's coverage of regarding the roll-out of the iPhone in the UK, particularly the point where it says: ...O2 has fired up its network with the slower Edge technology (as against Europe’s love affair with HSDPA) to accomodate the iPhone..... There is no 3G iPhone as...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Battery, Apple Inc., Engineering, 3G, Apple Mac OS X, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
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