Google caused a furor by changing its privacy policy.  The Washington Post headline read “Google announces privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out.” But what does Google think it knows about you?
Does Google Accurately Guess Your Age and Gender?
Ars Technica’s Casey Johnston has started a fun new game: find out what Google [...]

Apple reported record breaking profits yesterday.  Coming just before the New York Times’ provocative inquiry into how and why the iPhone came to be built in China, public radio’s “This American Life” carried a fascinating and troubling show based on Mike Daisey’s “The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.”  A lot of people [...]

RoadMAP is an unabashed New York Times fanboy; the breadth and quality of the content it generates constantly amazes.  This article isn’t very clearly written, but it nonetheless makes one think about the challenge of organizing this content more cohesively.  As media properties become “multiplatform,” this experiment bears watching.
Meet Deep [...]

Regulation of cable pole attachments is surely one of the most boring niches of communications law.  Whether and how phone and cable companies can hang their wires on utility poles, and how much they pay, is a recurring and multibillion dollar issue.  Usually, the cable companies are the ones who squawk [...]

This piece from GigaOm points out that cable companies are using Wi-Fi to extend their home and office-based wired networks.  AT&T is deploying Wi-Fi a little bit, but not a lot.  What the article does not address is that Wi-Fi is only one flavor of unlicensed spectrum.  A big fight is underway in [...]

It’s not RoadMAP, but rather Mike Masnick of TechDirt, who described yesterday’s Supreme Court Golan v. Holder decision as “A Giant Middle Finger to the Public Domain.”  On the same day that the Internet community rose as one to defend itself against the intellectual property mafia, the Justices handed that cabal [...]

Regulars know that RoadMAP thinks that television’s reign as the king of political advertising media is not going to end anytime soon.  That does not mean that web advertising won’t change the very nature of the political process.  It is doing just that, although perhaps more slowly than some people think.
The [...]

At 10am Saturday, the White House released a blog post announcing that the Administration has serious, essentially fatal, reservations about SOPA, the anti-piracy legislation that has galvanized Internet activists in recent weeks.  (Many important web services, including Wikipedia, plan to go dark to call attention to this debate.)  This is huge; for as [...]

Tablet As Time Machine: Old Magazine Issues Finding New Life On The iPad
There’s an iceberg-like quality to magazines: The peek of content that’s visible above the surface — sitting on the newsstand, promoted on the website — is only a tiny fraction of the content they have to offer in total. [...]

It’s hard to ignore a market with 1.3 billion people.
Google Softens China Stance
Company Renews Push to Expand in World’s Biggest Internet Market

Google, Inc., which pulled its Web-search engine out of mainland China two years ago after a confrontation with Chinese authorities over censorship, has renewed its push to expand there, in an [...]