Grinch Alert: Barry Diller

According to Bloomberg.com, Barry Diller (Chairman and CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp) has joined a growing list of corporate executives trying to convince the public that they should pay for the online content that has largely been produced by the public — … Continue reading →

NYT Op-Ed: Lost in the Cloud

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NYT Op-Ed: Lost in the Cloud > Key quote from Zittrain: "If the market settles into a handful of GATED CLOUD COMMUNITIES whose proprietors control the availability of new code, the time may come to ensure that their platforms do not discriminate" (emphasis added).

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Amazon gets Orwellian with Orwell

On 07.17.09 Amazon got a bit Orwellian by remotely deleting copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from people’s Kindles — copies that were legitimately purchased from Amazon (the original purchase was credited to people’s accounts). The Kindle is … Continue reading →

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Goldman Sachs and the war on (loose) code

Loose nukes code is fast becoming an object of national security. Like their industrial cold war predecessors, code has been framed as the informational equivalent of a loose nuke — potentially capable of obliterating markets and governments if obtained by … Continue reading →