How the Internet Taught Us How to Wag The Dog
I am the sort of person who can spend hours reading stuff online, cruising from one site to another. I am sort of a internet junkie with an endless supply of my favourite drug...
Category: Internet and Technology
Why Stopping Piracy Isn’t Censorship
One of the recurring arguments that the anti-copyright, pro-piracy types like to toss out there is that shutting down pirate sites (or removing pirated content from a file locker, example) is a form of...
Piracy and Censorship and Free Speech
It’s been an interesting period in the piracy world in the last 12 months or so. From the shut down of Mega (just over a year ago) to the latest announcement by the Spanish...
Is Google Reaching Its End Game?
Having been around the internet since long before there was an internet, one of the things you learn is that sites, companies, and products come and go. For every mountain that is built, there...
Zynga: The Canary in the Social Media Mine?
An interesting story today over on CNN, where Zynga has announced 5% workforce cutbacks. If the name of the company doesn’t mean anything to you, perhaps this will: They are the maker of all...
One Year Later Steve Jobs Still Not God
Unless you have been hiding in a hole or totally ignoring the internet, most of you know that this past week was the 1 year anniversary of the death of Steve Jobs. The reactions,...
Julian Assange, Wikileaks, and the Damage Done
Over a year ago, I discussed some of the actions by Wikileaks leader Julian Assange to control the organization and to limit leaks of it’s own materal. I felt that Julian Assange Hurts Wikileaks...
