Wired State

No, Joggers Don't Need to Rip DVDs, They Have Spotify, And In Any Event You're Edge-casing

Gadget craziness. Photo by XuRxO 2010.Two years ago, I met with Fred Wilson, the famous venture capitalist of Union Square in "Silicon Alley" as the tech world in New York City is called. The reason Fred wanted to meet with me was to ...

Cooks Source Like Open Source

Wired is dutifully reporting on a meme-storm about an Internet plagiarism rage, and so are many others -- and getting the point better than Wired does. I caught a glimpse in my Facebook stream with a comment about "that lady just broke ...

"The Absence of Permissions on Our Personal Data and the Absence of Permissions on Digital Copyright Objects are Two Sides of the Same Coin"

I was so glad The Register -- which is really the best publication for all the hard-core tech news -- much better than TechCrunch or ReadWriteWeb or CNET (because it has more critical distance from Silicon Valley) -- ran a story about ho...

The Fake Propaganda that "Banksters" Haven't Been Prosecuted: They Have

Occupy Wall Street protest in October 2011 in Chicago. Photo by Chicago Man. Some Twitter goof named Louis Leo IV, whose profile says Trial Lawyer, Blogger & Founder of @PplOverPolitics #POPnetwork http://PeopleOverPolitics.Org ...

21st Century Statecraft...or Tradecraft?

Mission almost accomplished for Mr. Morozov -- with his obsessive and public crusade against Haystack, he's likely paralyized the State Department's admittedly giddy and over-shared program to enable dissident Iranians to escape state ce...

Why Seth Godin is Wrong About The Erosion in the Paid Media Pyramid

Since the invention of media (the book, the record, the movie...), there's been a pyramid of value and pricing delivered by those that create it: via sethgodin.typepad.com Of course what totalitarian thinker Seth Godin leaves out of hi...

Hearing Global Voices

Kevin Rothrock has fired off a response to my critical blog about his post on the troubling new Internet law. He publishes a picture of the infamous "troll face" meme which should really apply to him, and of course then tries to discred...

Open Society, Ltd.

A video clip of a conversation between Arianna Huffington and Bill Moyers about the victimization of George Soros features Moyers' claim that Fox News and right-wing pundits have become "Orwellian." Really? Orwellian? As in "like th...