In a perfect world, this talk by noted author and electronic liberty activist, Cory Doctorow, would be a viral video that would reach millions of people instead of the just a bit over 110,000 it has so far. Because in it he explains in relatively plain English what is going on in the copyright...
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Forget all the fooferaw about whether Julian Assange is a traitor, (He isn’t even American, so if words actually have meanings, he’s not.) or whether the latest WikiLeaks dump of diplomatic cables will seriously damage the U.S. (It won’t. The people to whom this would actually matter — other world leaders and diplomats —...
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Back in the glory days of the daily newspaper getting a scoop meant beating the competition by half-a-day or possibly by a full day. With newspaper boys screaming, “Extra!” on every corner, a good scoop meant thousands of additional newspaper sales. Thus, being first with a story had a huge bottom-line impact. Back in...
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Basically spent the day getting the ball rolling on this initiative. Our Facebook page, Bring Google Fiber to Clinton, Iowa started taking off, getting 100 new fans yesterday, 247 since it was set up Sunday. We’ve got a web site up and running, google4clinton.org. There’s nothing there yet, but we’ll have some content up...
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Yes, we are moving on an application for this. Check out the Facebook page for now. Hopefully sometime this week we’ll get up a web site and blog. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, start here. Posting will be light while I add this to the to-do list.
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Last week Google announced that it will no longer support older browsers. Specifically, this means that Internet Explorer Version 6 will no longer be supported by Gmail, Google Docs and the rest of the Google suite. This isn’t really that much of a shock. Microsoft itself has been pushing its users to dump IE6...
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This is the latest in an ongoing series entitled, “Everything You Think You Know (ETYTYK) about ‘X’ is Wrong,” designed to illustrate just how much technology and the internet have changed key industries (the X). It is also about how we as consumers and most especially how the industries themselves are mostly failing in...
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Returning to a theme here with some updated links. One of the best features of the Internet is the ability to bring people who are dispersed all over together to work on like-minded projects. This can be don ad-hoc by self-forming groups or by private concerns. Either way, crowdsourcing is a powerful tool. Wikipedia,...
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I’m not sure what to make of this posting on the Clinton Herald forums that the Forums will be shut down on September 1. Newspaper management’s only public reply has been in the forums and it isn’t exactly clear what will happen next Tuesday. Editor, Charlene Bielema posted this on Monday, the 24th: Yes,...
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Just got back from the KROS studios in Clinton where I was talking about what options are available to CIS subscribers and businesses. No announcement yet from CIS. The curious thing, which I mentioned on the radio, is that CIS has significant assets both physical and virtual and could very easily sell the business...
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