Just a reminder, when I’m not playing video games or blogging about tech I sometimes write about politics at my other blog. I have a live-blog of the debate, plus beer and live music, here.
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Elsewhere
Just a reminder, when I’m not playing video games or blogging about tech I sometimes write about politics at my other blog. I have a live-blog of the debate, plus beer and live music, here.
Read more at Forbes.
Do Efforts To Crack Down On Online Piracy Threaten Artistic Freedom?
David Thier takes issue with my piracy post, writing that my argument over the nature of most piracy is “nothing but economic apologism. It says that we’re allowed to steal because it doesn’t really matter. Because we didn’t like that song anyway, we just wanted to hear what it was all about. Because it’s all […]
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Don’t Expect Apple’s Digital Textbook Innovation To Come From The Top Down
announced recently its entrance into the digital textbook market. Dead-tree textbooks, the company claims, are a thing of the past. And, as David Thier notes, is off to a very strong start with its new textbook service – selling over 350,000 textbooks in just three days. Many are enthusiastic about the tech giant’s entrance into […]
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Using Robots To Combat Prejudice
Alyssa Rosenberg captions: Often, when we see robots in popular culture, they’re actually more powerful than we are. If the Cylons were a metaphor for, say, Irish immigrants to the United States, they’d be telling a story about workers rising up from the slums and engulfing us all in whiskey and potatoes. These metaphors tend […]
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Cool Ad Of The Day – ‘One Hour Per Second’
Via copyranter, who typically hates infographs but enjoys this spot: More numbers and a more extended graphical experience here. Definitely click the link if you want a peek at the future of the internet, the infograph, and a lot of interesting tidbits on online videos. Follow me on Twitter or Facebook. Read my Forbes blog here.
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IP Protection Standards In TPP Represent The Downside Of The Trans-Pacific Partnership
SOPA, PIPA, ACTA – the four-letter acronyms of the various laws and trade agreements aimed at cracking down on internet piracy have been swirling about the internet lately. More often than not these regulations have been crafted behind closed doors, leading to discussions about each that are too murky and confusing by half. Hyperbole abounds, often magnifying […]
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Apple Reports Record First Quarter – How Long Can Cupertino Keep This Up?
(AAPL) is reporting a record first quarter. As reports, this has propelled to new heights, with a market capitalization that tops Exxon by almost $5 billion. According to a press release from the Cupertino-based tech giant, the company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 […]
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ElfQuest Not Coming To The Silver Screen
Rob Beschizza has some sad news. The cult classic fantasy comic, ElfQuest, is not going to be made into a movie – at least not any time soon: Warner Brothers has canceled production of Elfquest, a movie about the feral descendants of space-faring shape-shifters and their quest to uncover the truth about their ancestors’ crash-landing on […]
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Asia, Innovation, And Urban Density
Matt Yglesias makes a smart point: [I]f you take the long view of world history you’ll see that the question that needs explaining isn’t “why is so much stuff happening in Asia” but rather “why is so little stuff happening in Asia.” For most of human history, Asia is where all the action is since […]
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