December 2011
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Sweden's Film Industry is Wiped out?
Today, former Senator and current head of the Motion Picture Association of America, Chris Dodd spoke at the Center for America Progress about creativity and copyright. While there are a number of points I could push back against in his talk one remark in particular stands out. Shortly after beginning of his conversation with Alyssa Rosenberg, Dodd claims “The entire film industry of Spain,...
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The Internet's Intolerable Acts
Sascha Meinrath and I have a new article Slate on how the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act amount to collective punishment against online communities.
More than 300 years later, the U.S. Congress is considering bills that would lead to collective reprisals against online communities. The Senate’s PROTECT IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House are supposed to address...
October 2011
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Steve Jobs: 1955-2011
“ “may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented”-B. ObamadigiphileOctober 5, 2011“ “Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change-agent.” Steve Jobs, 2006, Stanford Commencement. #stevejobsmerelvanbeerenOctober 5, 2011“ Flags at Apple HQ at half mast...
September 2011
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A few thoughts on the new Kindles
Today Amazon announced three new products: a $199 tablet, a $99 touch screen e-reader, and a $79 e-reader. While I rarely comment on product releases I think Amazon’s trio of new Kindle’s brings up a few themes to watch:
Explosion of E-book Sales, and Amazon control: For the first time this year e-book sales overtook hardback sales. However, for e-books really to become dominant I...
August 2011
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Vermontreal 2011
I’m off for a 500 mile bike trip this Saturday around the state of Vermont and Montreal click through for our route and follow updates at Vermontreal.
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In Defense of the Internet Craftsman
A new article I wrote with Sascha Meinrath is up on Slate discussing the importance of user control of Internet enabled technologies”
To save the Internet as a platform for innovation, we need to see concerted intervention to protect the rights of users to create. Most importantly, we must fight for the Internet craftsman—the individual who is free to develop networks, services, and...
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Digital Feudalism published
Digital Feudalism: Enclosures and Erasures from Digital Rights Management to the Digital Divide was recently published in the latest issue of CommLaw Conspectus: Journal of Communications Law and Policy. As Sascha Meinrath, Victor Pickard and I write in Digital Feudalism:
As we enter the second decade of the 21st Century, we find ourselves at a rare historical moment—a time of great opportunity...
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July 2011
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A Growing Digital Divide
A new article by Sascha Meinrath, Ben Lennett and myself in IEEE Internet Computing discusses a new framework for discussing technology and the digital divide. While there is a growing consensus that communications is a fundamental right, achieving digital equality in the broadband age has become considerably more complex than just universal access. The article offers a more nuanced perspective on...
June 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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WatchThis week we hosted Vint Cerf for an event demoing visual tools for data collected by Measurement Lab. Over the last two years, M-Lab has collected over 300 terabytes of data and the tools are pretty fun to explore. This chart ranks worldwide broadband speeds. Because speed is affected by the number of tests and distance to test servers, this data is available as well.
February 2011
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Wireless versus Wireline Broadband and the Digital...
With all the talk of wireless broadband and the digital divide I became curious what the price difference was between wireless and wireline broadband access. After all my Computer may have cost $1000 when I bought it three years ago, but my phone, with the mandatory service I barely use like Voice, ran nearly $3000 over two years. Granted a phone with a data plan is cheaper, but my next computer...
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The Wireless Generation Gap
If you’ve followed broadband discussions in Washington, DC, then you’ve heard that wireless is the future of communications. The National Broadband Plan offers wireless as the competitive solution to the broadband duopoly dilemma, and in the recently released White House Wireless Innovation and Infrastructure Initiative, President Obama reiterated his State of the Union commitment...
December 2010
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November 2010
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October 2010
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Digital Textbooks and Open Educational Resources
Lisa Guernsey of the New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative and I recently wrote a piece titled: Making ‘E-Textbooks’ Real — and Really Accessible — in Public School.
From iPads to the Espresso print-on-demand, the publishing world is changing, and textbooks are no different. For example, not only do publishing giants like Pearson and McGraw-Hill have...
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Mobile Devices are Increasingly Locked Down and...
How Cell Phone “Customization” Undermines End-Users by Redefining Ownership
1968 was a landmark year for communication in the United States. The same year when HAL 9000, the psychotic computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, famously said “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that,” consumers were suddenly freed to connect any phone or devices to their telephone lines. In the seminal “Carterfone”...
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Why Europe Needs Community Level Network...
Last week, I led a submission to the European Commission on why Network Neutrality rules are needed at the Community level, a common regulatory framework for the European Union. The full submission and listed authors is available here.
The debates surrounding network neutrality and the open Internet begin with debates on network architecture and network management, but their implications are...
September 2010
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August 2010
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