Category Archive: technology

Are you RIAA-free?

The ridiculous nature of our current copyright system has made me a big fan of sites like Techdirt and groups like EFF. Seeing case after case of organizations, companies, and artists who crap all over their fans and intentionally make it harder for ... Read more...

An Open Letter to the Newspaper Business from Fake Eric Schmidt

I love this… MESSAGE FOR THE NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY Listen assholes, all we ever hear from you is whining and we’re getting sick of it: “Waaah! Google’s killing our business! Waaah! Google sends us traffic we can’t monetise!... Read more...

Wandering around Wikipedia

One of my favorite “fallback” books – that class of books that just never seems to leave the nightstand, just in case you have a few minutes to kill – is an encyclopedia of the Civil War. It’s loaded with short, high-lev... Read more...

It’s Not the Medium, It’s the Content

The new tax break passed by Washington state for print newspapers has taken a lot of flak, and I’d like to do my part to pile on by riffing off Danny Sullivan’s excellent post: That makes no sense. You’re not trying to save the communi... Read more...

Parked domains – A personal laundry list of unrealized ambitions

A post over on Dumb Little Man – Tips for Life entitled “10 Sure-Fire Ways to Be a Complete Failure at Everything” made me laugh when I hit number 2: Start 17 Projects, Finish None: If you want to be a failure, get great at startin... Read more...