First of all I can not believe how much attention goes to copyright as opposed to war mongering in Iran. It is all out of proportion. So there is a house bill " The College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 " Which got some play in the tech-press here and here. But this was actually a sad sort of spin off of a different weird and totally wrong idea. Which was on the mp3 insider podcast in late summer 2007 as a rumor. The rumor was that the RIAA would get government to force the makers of mp3 players to pay a fee to the RIAA. (sort of like what the BBC does in the UK where everyone who owns a TV is supposed to pay some fee annually.) The COAA even got on to some academic news with Digital Campus Episode 16 - Steal This E-Book. But there is a real war going on. Today Declan McCullagh writes about a second piece of legislation . A couple of things about my media. I own and iPod and a Samsung Yepp 256mb mp3 player. I spent a month ripping CDs to the iPod fo
I am a technologist, by profession, and a political activist by inclination. But this blog is for thoughts that are not affiliated with any employer past present or future. And this is not where I will be overtly political. I will discuss technology that I use. I may discuss big ideas about the way that society is changing.