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Laws written even a few years ago are ill-equipped to deal with changing technologies.  Here are two related items that caught RoadMAP’s eye during its vacation that [...]

The Los Angeles Times’ Patrick Goldstein has long been a savvy observer of the motion picture business.  In this essay, he explores Hollywood’s future as technological change sweeps through the business.
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Can Hollywood Keep Hanging On To Its Aging Business Model?
Everywhere you look in the [...]

RoadMAP admits to having a longstanding and bemused interest in the rather wacky and idiosyncratic radio sermons and counseling delivered by a fellow named Roy Masters.  The IRS revoked the “church” status of Master’s Foundation of Human Understanding a few years ago, and last month the U.S. Court of Federal Claims agreed in this decision. What caught [...]

The cover story in next month’s Wired has an essay by editor Chris Anderson (“The Long Tail”) in which he argues that the open Internet is on its way to obsolescence.  The folks at The Atlantic Wire have links to the story, to a companion piece by gadfly Michael Wolff, and to a number of blog posts arguing [...]

Today’s item is a somewhat contrarian musing about online privacy.
The (Still) Coming Privacy Boom
A year ago, at a cover meeting at BusinessWeek, I proposed a big story: The Privacy Pay-off. The idea was that tracking and other data surveillance would spark a reaction: People would fear for their privacy. And this would create all sorts [...]

Satellite technology has been a modest commercial success for video, but it has never done well at delivering Internet service.  Notwithstanding the limitations imposed by the laws of physics, two companies are about to introduce services offering more competitive speeds.  This is still a longshot, but might add some competition to the mix.
Tapping the Web, [...]

The latest data from the The Pew Internet and American Life Project are chock full of interesting tidbits.  RoadMAP’s favorite is that 20% of Americans rely primarily on wireless for their Internet connection.  Here is ars technica’s review.
Is There a “Caring About Broadband” Divide in the US?
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has a new poll [...]

Many of RoadMAP’s readers may be tiring of reading about the Google/Verizon proposal on network neutrality, but if you haven’t read these two pieces, you’ve missed the best writing on the subject.  (Yes, RoadMAP is cheating today, but it was hard to choose between the two.)  Ryan Singel’s rant inWired has been picked up all over [...]

This inquiry is, to put it mildly, speculative, but it is nonetheless very interesting.  Do Black people use Twitter differently?  There are no good answers here, yet the speculation is provocative.
How Black People Use Twitter
As far as I can tell, the Twitter hashtag #wordsthatleadtotrouble got started at about 11 a.m. Pacific Time on Sunday morning, [...]

UDA Today has a spirted point/counterpoint debate between its editorial board and the head of the Internet Advertising Bureau over the privacy implications and societal value of cookies.
Don’t Fear Internet Tracking
Opposing view: Tracking tools make your life easier. They also help fuel the economy.
A wild debate is on about websites using “tracking tools” to [...]