Month: August 2007
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One-Click™ colonialism
The music industry has a long and shameful history of robbing black artists of their rights. Now along comes some new software that will help speed up the job. Think of it as a sort of 1-Click “non-payment” system. Liblicense is a project that Creative Commons hopes to integrate with MIT Media Lab’s OLPC, or…
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Smart radios are still pretty dumb
More than three years ago, your reporter got a good taste of how miserable technology utopians can be. It was at Intel’s Developer Forum in San Francisco, and the debate was about liberating analog TV spectrum for exciting new digital uses. The analog switchover is slated for February 2009. On behalf of Microsoft, Google, and…