By Martin Bosworth It’s one of those moments of fearful symmetry only a tiger could love. Barely a day after FCC chair Kevin Martin announced that his agency would be investigating Comcast […]
Mike Gravel keeps it real
By Martin Bosworth I wasn’t sure at first if this is an official video from presidential candidate Mike Gravel (I can’t find it on his YouTube channel), but part of it trails […]
Google and Verizon (yes, THAT Verizon) both take steps towards completely open information world
By Martin Bosworth It’s a very strange day in the technology world when Google can make a potentially big product announcement, yet ends up upstaged by an even more shocking development from […]
Last day to vote for S&R in 2007 Weblog Awards
Thanks for all the votes, folks, and if you haven’t voted yet, or would like to vote for S&R again, today’s the last day to do so. Registration’s not required, it’s just […]
Scholars and Rogues in running at 2007 Weblog Awards
The 2007 Weblog Awards nominees have been named and voting is open. S&R has been nominated in the category “Best of the Top 6751 – 8750 Blogs” against the likes of Winter […]
Hillary, John, Rudy, et al., we (the people) hardly knew ye …
If I’d had $1,000 to spare, the freedom to blow off a day of work and the cost of plane fare from Buffalo, N.Y., to Washington, D.C., I could have met presidential […]
The future (of science fiction writing) ain’t what it used to be
By Martin Bosworth Over the weekend there was an interesting flap in literary circles–the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) went insane with copyright infringement notices against Scribd.com, an online document-hosting service, […]
Don’t be evil – unless you can hide it in the Terms of Service legalese no-one ever reads
If you publish your photos online, you’re understandably giving up some amount of control over those photos. Everyone and their uncle can copy and modify the photos, and while you have some […]
MaxSpeak no more
By Martin Bosworth I know I’m crazy with the posting today, but I wanted to mention another resignation that will be much less heralded, and much more lamented: Economist and uber-progressive blogger […]
The Internet is dead! Long live … television?
So says Mark Cuban. Now, I’m typically a big Cuban fan. But I’m looking at an AdAge report on his remarks from yesterday’s Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Summit, and I’m […]
