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Connections, Distractions, and Time

NEWS By JAMESDELONG16 YEARS AGO

Paul Kedrosky runs Infectious Greed, a consistently thoughtful and entertaining site devoted to financial affairs, with periodic forays into deepthink. In a recent post C-Beams Glittering Near Tannhauser Gate,* he takes up the issue of information overload and distraction: It’s  easy to …

Content: Adults at Work

NEWS By JAMESDELONG16 YEARS AGO

Craig Engler, GM and senior vice president of Syfy Digital, provides The truth about TV ratings, online viewing and sci-fi shows, debunking the idea that sci-fi gets shortchanged on the viewer count because a high proportion of its audience is tech savvy …

More on the Verizon Appeal of the Net Neutrality Regulation

NEWS By JAMESDELONG16 YEARS AGO

Verizon’s action last Wednesday (Jan. 19) in filing an appeal of the FCC’s Net Neutrality rule caught the tech world by surprise. My post last Friday discussed some aspects of the situation, but a question remains, why did Verizon appeal and no …

Which Court Gets to Hear the Net Neutrality Appeal?

NEWS By JAMESDELONG16 YEARS AGO

Thirty years ago, a contentious agency rule would trigger a “the race to the courthouse.” Under the law at the time, whichever Court of Appeals received the first-filed notice of appeal got the case. But it would not do to file too …

Internet Numbers Game

NEWS By JAMESDELONG16 YEARS AGO

Click for full size image Using a variety of sources, Pingdom has put together a list of numbers about the Internet. For example: 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010 (89% were spam). 255 million – …

Net Neutrality: Send in the Clowns

NEWS By JAMESDELONG16 YEARS AGO

A consortium of anti-public interest organizations (Free Press; Center for Media Justice; Media Access Project; Open Technology Initiative; New America Foundation; Presente.org) has just petitioned the FCC to act against a new package of 4G LTE services put together by MetroPCS, the …

Breaking the Piñata

NEWS By JAMESDELONG16 YEARS AGO

By announcing that it is outlawing paid prioritization, the FCC is declaring that equal treatment is discriminatory. Even if a service is available to all at the same price, which some might think is the essence of NON-discrimination, anyone who does not …

Piracy, Counterfeiting, Web Domains & the Evolution of Property Rights

NEWS By JAMESDELONG16 YEARS AGO

It has long been obvious that suing copyright infringers and/or counterfeit goods purveyors one-by-one is a losing strategy in the era of Internet time and geographic reach, so efforts to protect intellectual property are increasingly focused on disrupting the infringers/counterfeiters Internet presence. …

A Market Working! What Will They Think of Next!

NEWS By JAMESDELONG16 YEARS AGO

At Alley Insider, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings discusses why he thinks those who short his stock are making a mistake. It is an interesting discussion generally, for its insight into how a shrewd executive views the development of content delivery via the …

Danger! Kibitzers at Work

NEWS By JAMESDELONG16 YEARS AGO

Free Press recently took the lead in drafting a letter to the FCC expressing concern that whatever Net Neutrality rule the agency issues next week will not be enough, and laying out its demands for true openness: Paid prioritization must be outlawed; …

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