You’d think that a global economic system based on money would have by now perfected the exchange of currency. Let’s face it. The vast majority of people you know spend a big chunk of their time obsessing over how to increase the efficiency of their incomes. How can I make more money? How can I make the same money in less time? How can I create new streams of wealth? And on. And on. And (…)
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Much has been written recently about former Napster front-man Sean Parker’s email to the founders of Spotify, but I couldn’t really resist chiming in myself to make a few quick points. For those of you who haven’t read the letter you can find it here. To start, the email comes off as written by something of a megalomaniac (which increases his chances of reading this, right?). Mr. Parker drops the word Napster in his email (…)
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Google’s Eric Shmidt had barely finished convincing Congress that his company wasn’t on a monopolistic warpath hellbent on world domination when I came across the “consumer advocacy” site fairsearch.org. This is basically a group of folks who claim that Google is bad for consumers. This group of folks, I should mention, stand to directly lose money if Google’s growing product offerings continue to be successful. The Fair Search about page is signed by the likes (…)
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I’m quite happy to announce a structural reworking of a project that’s been kicking around online in one form or another for awhile now. The History of the Freedom of Information is a timeline of the history of the sharing of information covering everything from the invention of the printing press to the more modern issues of copyright law and software development. The site originally used the SIMILE Timeline script (which I’m still using at (…)
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