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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He also makes what I think is a critical point about how 9/11 changed our perception of threats and our reaction to "security warnings." There are numerous academic studies that show that people react to repeated security warnings that come to nothing by basically tuning them out. And by warning people about...
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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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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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I thought it was odd last night about 5 p.m. when I could no longer see the forums on the front page of the Herald Website in Google Chrome, which I’ve been happily using as my primary web browser. But they were still visible and readable in with Firefox and Internet Explorer. This morning,...
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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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Robert Kramer III performed a great mitzvah for for the world when he ran down and sued into the ground a number of spammers based in the United States. Although it is unlikely that Bob Kramer, owner of CIS Internet Services ever saw even a tenth part of the more than $10 billion (yes,...
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It is almost an article of faith at this point that Barack Obama is “the Internet President,” having perfected the medium as a campaign tool, he is using it to open up the workings of government. For example,recovery.gov, data.gov and the White House Open Government Initiative. Obama has also hired the first-ever national Chief...
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