technology trends
To understand this story, you need to understand that grandchildren are like crack cocaine to grandparents. I'm convinced that if our parents could somehow snort our children up their noses to get a bigger fix, they would. And when your parents live out of state, like ours do,
piracy
SOPA and PIPA are two pieces of proposed legislation designed to "stop" Internet piracy… in the most hamfisted way imaginable. As Mitchell Baker explains: Assume there's a corner store in your neighborhood that rents movies. But the movie industry believes that some or even all of
net neutrality
Although I remain a huge admirer of Lawrence Lessig, I am ashamed to admit that I never fully understood the importance of net neutrality until last week. Mr. Lessig described network neutrality in these urgent terms in 2006: At the center of the debate is the most important public policy
privacy
I occasionally get requests to join private social networking sites, like LinkedIn or Facebook. I always politely decline. I understand the appeal of private social networking, and I mean no disrespect to the people who send invites. But it's just not for me. I feel very strongly that
security
If you've used the internet at all in the last few years, I'm sure you've seen your share of CAPTCHAs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha]: Of course, nobody wants to use CAPTCHAs. They're a necessary evil, just like the locks on
productivity
In a world of 43Folders [http://www.43folders.com/]* and dozens of other blogs that worship at the altar of Getting Things Done [http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with-getting-things-done/], it's a little surprising that nobody has taken aim at the #1 enemy of productivity everywhere: The