January 2012
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The Digital Flip That Matters
This past Wednesday, many notable Internet sites, including Wikipedia, Wordpress, Mozilla, and others, went “dark” in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) under consideration in the U.S. House and Senate respectively. These acts are intended to better control piracy of intellectual content online. The collective darkening was...
June 2011
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The value of information service
It is something we do everyday, whether we acknowledge we are doing it or not. We make value judgments. Each of us manages daily a defined pool of resources: money, time, or perhaps most precious, our attention. Our days are filled with small but significant decisions that define the value of the things in our lives – services, tools, places, people. Increasingly it seems more and more things are...