That’s right. Information is the “plastic” of this century. Those that have information, control information, understand information and distribute information will be the masters of the 21st century economy. An examination of the policy debates in Congress concerning intellectual property, the policy discussions at the FCC concerning spectrum and who controls it, the debate over [...]
AJC has a guest op/ed discussing how much it costs to perform the Christian ministerial duties of visiting prisoners. Between the collect calls, ATM fees, and other charges (which, ironically, are imposed by private sector contractors who resist reveiling the profit margins and whose owners have gone to prison defending their take!) incurred by the [...]
An editorial by the Augusta Chronicle is concerned about the costs to human freedom that may be incurred as a result of proposed abatement of global warming.
Why don’t they have the same concern when it comes to the proposed infringment on liberties created by our responses to terrorism?
If you were to calculate probabilities of being [...]
LA Times article highlights how uninformed Congress is when addressing key technology issues this year. The following is a candidate for the “Understatement” of the Year award:
“To our industry and our customers, very important issues are being decided today in Congress,” said Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice president of global public policy. “Much of the concern [...]
Computerworld has done analysis on future of jobs in IT. Here is a telling comment:
In 2010, there will be a whole lot more information floating around. Customers and regulators will expect IT to know what is known, protect what is private and generate bordering-on-clairvoyant levels of service. The whole issue of IT and the law [...]
We (the royal universal population of netizens) use the web to share photos, videos, audio (music and speech), data, thoughts and many, many private data points.
Why can’t our government (and it is ours — in fact, we are the government - last I checked) do the same?
Jason DeParle of the NYT writes about a movement promoting greater access to US spending data.
“Sunshine’s the best thing we’ve got to control waste, fraud and abuse,” he said. “It’s also the best thing we’ve got to control stupidity. It’ll be a force for the government we need.” Senator Tom Coburn, OK
Coburn is right. Of [...]
Robert Scoble, noted Microsoft blogger, is leaving for a new job. While at Microsoft, he pushed the traditional envelope by publicly discussing and sometimes dismissing company strategies and actions using his blog.
When asked how he was able to "get away" with public criticizing his company, Scoble replied:
Chairman Bill Gates "loves arguing out ideas."
"He knows that [...]
Dana Blankenhorn spots an essay (Sidewalks: Paying by the stroll) by Bob Frankston satirizing efforts by the Bell Companies to charge you for access (by quality of service) to the Internet. This piece is worth a read.
As a continuation of a theme started by the first post of today — why would you consent to allowing [...]
News story on Warner Brothers decision to use BitTorrent to distribute movies causes me to recall a discussion among CIO's in state government when a policy was proposed to block all peer-to-peer applications as such calls "served no legitimate purposes." I was given a very skeptical look when I protested on behalf of education…
Now, imagine [...]
