What’s so wrong with SOPA?
Yesterday, a friend started a long discussion on Facebook (well, long for that venue) by asking where exactly the censorship happens within the text of the Stop Online Piracy Act …
Aggregated Aggregation
Aggregation of ownership within the media business has continued to the point that only six sets of management-types control 90% of information content, including what passes for news, available commercially to Americans. The view of who’s supplying what information is even less clear in the mashed up muddle of distributed and aggregated content.
Netflix to IFLA: Huh?
So count me as +1 for the Netflix customers (or maybe the correct term in Netflix’s case is potential former customers) who are puzzled and disappointed by the company’s remarkably …
Weight of information: intended and unintended
I think the weight of information might be an essential characteristic, maybe one of the patterns that define information and distinguish one instance of it from another at a fundamental …
Weight of Information I
During party chat, I was accused of being a notorious elitist. Librarian-types place enormous value on free access to information, certainly without censorship imposed directly by government or other controlling …
Noise +1, Signal 0
Or, Where’s the Pony? A couple decisions about my use of social media collided in my head this week. With a medium-weight sigh — definitely subtragic but not trivial, either …
The Digital Metaphor
So the e-reader people are finally starting to address some of their rights management issues it would seem. Nobody wants to buy one of those ebooks if they can’t treat …
Static flows
A few years ago, early in my transition from editor to IT goon, I had a weird experience that was formative of my IT persona in a lot of ways. I had to send email to a very busy director-level decision maker about some aspect of her program’s web presence. I don’t recall even a tiny detail of what the issue was, but I vividly remember the form of her reply.