It has been nearly 3 weeks since our original article about SOPA, and the wave of public outcry has risen and broken. It was fascinating to watch it spiral from a minor news bullet to dominating Facebook, Twitter, major news as well as seeing blackouts and protest from major sites like Google and Wikipedia. [...]
You’ll hear a lot of people going on and on about how the tech sector is so awesome and how the country is going to pull out of a recession. About how unemployment is recovering, and the bullish second market for companies like Facebook. It’s all a whistle in the dark.
I ran into [...]
I posted last week about SOPA and what a broadly written and poorly constructed chunk of legal feces it is splattering on the pavement of technological democracy. Descending now into the maelstrom of controversy[reddit] is GoDaddy, whom among other things has been accused of “Writing the SOPA bill”, blocking ICANN transfers away from registrar, waffling, [...]
I know, I’m now in the esteemed company of folks who post political items on their Facebook wall. Now by nature I’m a lurker on that network but I have felt a responsibility of late to shout from the digital rooftops warnings about SOPA (H.R.3261). For many years old growth media like MPAA, RIAA, Time Warner have been attempting to control [...]
Under extreme heat and pressure, carbon becomes diamond. You could say there’s been a little operational duress in my situation lately. The greatest by far occurred when 30 short days ago, the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen appeared in my life (my daughter). She picked a hell of a time to arrive. I [...]
