Whatever your position on the American drone attacks in Pakistan (and mine is that they are a horrendous abuse of human rights, for what it’s worth), this Google-Maps project from Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann of the New America Foundation is a good example of leveraging the power of technology to share information. As they …
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Jailbreaking is officially legal
Thanks to the efforts of the good folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, it’s now official: you can do what you want with your own devices. Apple argued in this jailbreaking case that copyright law prevents people from installing unapproved programs on iPhones. But the EFF successfully argued that making a phone interoperable amounts to …
The Anti-Capitalist
Can capitalism survive the present trauma? Yes, of course.” But, Harvey explains, it can only do so at a terrible price. The mass of the people will be required “to give generously of their fruits of labour to those in power, to surrender many of their rights and their hard-won asset values (in everything from …
End of the Mass Media and Pop Culture?
It’s been nearly a month, but here, finally, is a wrap-up of the last discussion, with my own recent thoughts on the subject intertwined… How will musicians and writers, and other artists and tradesmen whose work is now primarily digital, make a living now that their product can be so easily and freely acquired? Jeremy …