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Who owns your identity?

May 1, 2011

Do you own your iden­tity online? The answer may sur­prise you.

Where Virtual and Physical meet

March 31, 2006

There has been a fair amount of talk recently about Sec­ond Life and mySpace, which has left me won­der­ing: what hap­pens when phys­i­cal and vir­tual space meet? What are the legal chal­lenges that those world will meet. In this entry, I try to ana­lyze what I sus­pect will become a big­ger issue down the road. Many of the ideas […]

The New Gatekeepers

February 9, 2006

A recent arti­cle in the Wall Street Jour­nal claims that there is a level of con­flict of inter­est for blog­gers who have advised FON and are writ­ing about it. While the Journal’s story, in itself, is prob­a­bly more of a tem­pest in a tea cup, I do believe that it raises some inter­est­ing issues in terms of buzz in […]

Dean Missteps

August 6, 2003

Yes­ter­day, I men­tioned Howard Dean’s cam­paign as a lead­ing force in the use of the Inter­net for cam­paign­ing. Today, I dis­cov­ered the dark side of that cam­paign­ing effort and its name is SPAM. Check­ing my inbox, I noticed an incon­gru­ous mes­sage enti­tled Impor­tant mes­sage from Gov. Howard Dean. The mes­sage was largely incon­gru­ous because I have not signed up with […]

2004 : The Year the Internet Changes Politics

August 4, 2003

The recent rise of social soft­ware, weblogs, flash­mobs, and online polit­i­cal cam­paign­ing may rep­re­sent new oppor­tu­ni­ties for the technology-aware politi­cian. Already, Gov­er­nor Howard Dean, a demo­c­ra­tic can­di­date in the 2004 pres­i­den­tial cam­paign is show­ing that good under­stand­ing of those new tech­nolo­gies can help increase the vis­i­bil­ity of a can­di­date in an oth­er­wise dif­fi­cult field. At the current […]

Paid Content on a tiered structure

April 9, 2003

Reports that AT&T is plan­ning on intro­duc­ing a pre-paid card for online con­tent show some poten­tial new devel­op­ments in the online space. If we were to fol­low the model fur­ther, we could see some­thing new devel­op­ing, with com­pa­nies offer­ing a bas­ket of con­tent for a fixed price. For exam­ple, imag­ine you would like to get a sub­scrip­tion to the […]