Political bloggers jailed, detained | Tech News on ZDNet What happened to Freedom of Speech? I usually do not discuss politics, nor do I get involved in a lot of political talk. There are some things that I just stay away from, but in doing that, I don't think anyone should have the right to shut down a blog for
Where is the web headed today. From the perspective of a venture capitalist you would would think that if your company is not being innovative in creating segmented content, allowing it to be freely distributed and at the same time giving people a way to rank that information you may want to reconsider your objectives and goals of any projects
Westchester County, New York, a suburb of New York City, may become the first area in the country to require wireless networks to be secured. Wi-Fi hot spots, such as those found in coffee shops, book stores, and recreational areas are popular not only with average citizens, but also with crackers seeking to collect credit card data and other personal information.
It seems I go thru this pain about every year. I spent a considerable amount of money to convert this site from a two column weblog to a three column. It is a pretty unique template and will not port well. I am getting ready to move several sites from Mambo to MovableType and I have yet to find a
If anybody knows anything about advertising and podcasting I do. I don't claim to be a expert but I have probably signed more deals for podcasters than anyone in the industry at this point. Having a advertiser on a podcast is a lot of work and making sure that the right advertiser is partnered with the podcaster is a challenge
Wow don't try to do a podcast after you have had a tooth pulled it's no fun! This show is packed from end to end. We really want you to call the voice mail hotline to send your comments that will help with the flood of e-mail I am dealing with plus it allows you to express your point much
Realizing very quickly that they have done a very bad thing, Sony is rushing in to do damage control for illegally putting a spyware rootkit on people's computers. Thus far their partner company that was responsible for the maligned code are offering a patch to make this DRM package they have put on people's computers more secure. They are also
The first ever DRM-Free download store that uses bittorrent for downloads. Sorry I don't know much more details than that, but there appears to be people that are listening. [via digg]
I hate to say it but here we go again. Hollywood has fielded some new legislation that makes the broadcast flag initiative look insignificant. From BoingBoing I read the following and my jaw hit the floor "Under a new proposed Analog Hole bill, it will be illegal to make anything capable of digitizing video unless it either has all its
I will be loading this tonight and will have a reaction tomorrow. If your not using Firefox already once you switch you will never go back to IE. [Firefox]
Dave Winer has called for something that many of us will consider a longshot but think of the possibilities if it happened. In his first paragraph Dave sets the challenge. "An open message to Microsoft and Yahoo, and major implementors of search engines: Please clone the Google API, without the limits." I support his proposal, I encourage you to read
I has a very full day at work, thus I was only able to play on Microsoft Live on dial up for about 20 minutes. Tonight I have had a second look while on broadband. First thing you still have to use that stupid Net Passport to login. I don't know why I hate it so much but I do.