The Economist considers the significance of software that locks users out of Internet access.  Does the Internet promote or interfere with productivity?
Stay On Target
Computing: Software that disables bits of your computer to make you more productive sounds daft, but may help keep distractions at bay
“CLEAR your screen and clear your [...]

By now, it is a routine event when the Wall Street Journal carries yet another story in its long series on privacy violations by Internet companies.  But this morning’s story is bigger than that others; it involves Google and it is extremely flagrant.  That this involved a very aggressive evasion of Apple’s privacy protection modalities [...]

It is frequently surprising that rather straightforward issues of law remain unsettled for extended periods of time.  One such question surrounds news aggregators’ use of Internet news sites.  The Associated Press was ready to go to battle with Google over this issue, but Google backed out and purchased a license from AP.  Now AP is [...]

By Kate Andersen Brower, Bloomberg
President Barack Obama will be tapping into Hollywood money in his first California fundraising trip since anti-piracy legislation backed by the film industry was scuttled in Congress.
Over the next three days Obama is seeking to raise more than $8 million for his re-election, the bulk of it [...]

RoadMAP has been watching this one for a while, but yesterday, the newly renamed Aereo (formerly Bamboom) announced that it is going live.  It also announced that Barry Diller and some other big investors have bought in, so this might really get off the ground.  (Whether it will stay aloft is, of course, another question.)
What [...]

Every now and then, it is useful to think about the impact of the Internet on social institutions and small businesses
The Internet Makes Magic Disappear
YouTube has killed the magician’s art, and threatens the stores where tricks have been passed down for generations
In 1998, my father riffled a red deck of playing cards while [...]

Panel 1- Freedom of expression threats and challenges that online stakeholders face
This panel will bring together technologists, diplomats, human rights advocates and industry experts. The panel will focus on the variety of challenges online freedom stakeholders face moving forward in 2012. Relevant issues to be discussed include freedom of [...]

Those of us who opposed AT&T’s attempted acquisition of T-Mobile argued strenuously that AT&T’s claims about its need for more spectrum were exaggerated, and that AT&T could go a long way to addressing its needs by building out 4G networks and otherwise using its spectrum more efficiently.  Thus, it is with [...]

There’s no substance today, just a chance to have fun at other people’s expense.  This is a detailed and obviously very well sourced accounting of how Rupert Murdoch decided to delegate management of his hacking scandal to his close and trusted underlings in London.  There were fewer than a dozen people [...]

First, an update from yesterday.  The National Association of Broadcasters put out a statement
attempting to debunk the Pew survey which showed cable as the leading source of campaign information, saying that “58% of Pew survey respondents cited broadcast television as their primary source for campaign coverage, vastly surpassing the 36% who [...]