DMCA exemptions: requesting permission to innovate (2011 CEA repost)
(Since a site redesign at the Consumer Electronics Association resulted in the posts I wrote for CEA’s Digital Dialogue blog vanishing, along with everything there older than last November, I’m...
View ArticleOverlooked E-Book Chapter: DRM Makes Monopolies (2012 CEA repost)
(Since a site redesign at the Consumer Electronics Association resulted in the posts I wrote for CEA’s Digital Dialogue blog vanishing, along with everything there older than last November, I’m...
View ArticleWeekly output: e-books, Facebook Graph Search, TV Guide On Screen, MHL
This was one of the least-scheduled workweeks I’ve had in months–my calendar informs me that I had no work-related appointments at all on four of those five days. I really should have gotten more work...
View ArticleWeekly output: the RIAA’s changing mood about digital music, tech journalism,...
Starting tomorrow, I’m going to have a little less time each week to get my work done, courtesy of the Nats’ 10th season in D.C. beginning with Monday’s home opener. (If I stop responding to e-mail,...
View ArticleWeekly output: patent trolls, Apple Music (x3), robots, digital fluency
I had more to show for myself than usual on this holiday-shortened week, and I can thank Apple and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe for much of that. 6/30/2015: Why The Tech Industry Hates Patent Trolls,...
View ArticleWeekly output: owning versus renting music, Tech Night Owl, DSL without phone...
This week was relatively easy on my schedule. One result: I finally edited and posted the photos I took at CE Week three weeks ago. 7/7/2015: Sorry, Apple Music —I Want to Own My Tunes, Not Rent Them,...
View ArticleWeekly output: Comcast Stream, Amazon’s policy footprint, Flash’s fate
I spent two days this week working in large buildings in D.C., as if I had a full-time job or something. The reasons: Access’s Crypto Summit and the D.C. chapter of the Internet Society’s Internet...
View ArticleWeekly output: Movies Anywhere, pay-TV apps
This week involved some tech trouble at home: Tuesday morning, our fridge was near room temperature. After a call to Samsung support, they scheduled a technician to stop by Thursday afternoon, and then...
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