International Law

?Oregon Claims Copyright Over Laws?

Posted on April 16, 2008
I’m pretty sure this is the dumbest thing I will hear this week. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Similar Posts:None Found

?Putin agrees to head Russia?s biggest party?

Posted on April 15, 2008
There are days when I think that the dismemberment of mainstream media can’t happen fast enough. Often, they begin like today did - with a headline that exhibits the MSM at its worst - press releasing a stage-managed “news” event without a hint of skepticism, all journalistic instincts absent without leave...

Show me the money

Posted on April 15, 2008
I’m reading an awful lot of stories lately - many more than usual - that are essentially about content becoming virtually free. Similar Posts:None Found

?I was singed in the blogosphere?

Posted on April 15, 2008
One doctor’s story about being persuaded by bloggers to stop taking payments from industry. Similar Posts:None Found

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If you were wondering who your friends aren?t ?

Posted on April 15, 2008
From the Globe: Some of the world’s biggest grain exporters barred their farmers from selling in global markets yesterday, exacerbating the food price crisis for poorer nations that import their food and highlighting the failure of governments to nurture stronger rules for agricultural trade...

Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Posted on April 12, 2008
A short but fun interview of Richard Dawkins on Real Time with Bill Maher. Similar Posts:None Found

?Reducing Back to Art?

Posted on April 12, 2008
Ethan has a great post on Art in society, and the need to embark on a broad discussion about how we value it. I’ve been craving this discussion for a long time. I’m very tired of the ’sphere’s knee-jerk criticism of the media industry’s efforts to find new ways to value Art...

?Couric?s Fate Was Topic A in CBS Suite?

Posted on April 11, 2008
It seems extraordinary now, but CBS’s mismanagement of its evening news franchise has in only a few years trashed the show’s ratings, led it to consider dumping part of its news-gathering capability, and put Katie Couric in a position where her best career move may require a competition with Ryan Seacrest...

?Ottawa rejects space firm?s sale to U.S.?

Posted on April 10, 2008
How very banana republic of us. Similar Posts:None Found

?We Need A New Path To Liquidity?

Posted on April 10, 2008
There is a fascinating post and discussion chez Fred about what’s needed to replace the non-existent IPO market and ensure that acquired tech companies don’t languish in the hands of their M&A buyers. Similar Posts:None Found

Lawsuits by Canadian Politicians Sprouting Like Mushrooms

Posted on April 09, 2008
It’s silly season in our legislatures, as lawsuits by politicians (the latest here, here and here), threatened and real, have become the latest tool used to suppress criticism. Similar Posts:None Found

?Worst. President. Ever.?

Posted on April 09, 2008
We know. But we are well past the time when this matters, and well into the time when the topic ought to be what can be done to fix a system that is so good at electing the so mediocre. Similar Posts:None Found

?World Economic Forum Ranks Canada Ahead of U.S. on IP Protection?

Posted on April 09, 2008
Michael has the details. To be honest, I’m well past sick of being lied to by people in authority. We should be better than this. Similar Posts:None Found

?Ashton Kutcher-backed startup Ooma is falling apart?

Posted on April 09, 2008
Valleywag says Ooma is circling the bowl - no surprise there. Similar Posts:None Found

BC Gov?t Trying to Avoid Scrutiny Using Crown Copyright

Posted on April 08, 2008
Is there a Ridenhour ‘Cowardice Prize’? Via Michael, more skulking and concealing from government: On Sept. 13, 2000, Chris Norman, director of the B.C. government’s information and privacy branch (CPIAB), sent an internal memo to all ministerial FOI directors, in which he reported that the attorney-general’s ministry had “raised the issue of Crown copyright...

?You?ve been in both government and journalism; that makes everything you say twice as hard to believe?

Posted on April 08, 2008
Bill Moyers’ acceptance speech for the Ridenhour Courage Prize. Extract: So for all the blunders for which we are culpable; for all the disillusionment that has set in among journalists with every fresh report of job cuts and disappearing news space; for all the barons and buccaneers turning the press into a karaoke of power; [...

?The television networks have spent the last few weeks in pursuit of an interview with Gen. David H. Petraeus?

Posted on April 08, 2008
Just how likely are the media to ever write stories critical of a man they are desperate to entice into an exclusive interview? Similar Posts:None Found

?Newspaper ads hold their own?

Posted on April 08, 2008
You could not find better evidence of how far behind the curve we in Canada are on innovation on the Web. While America builds, we watch. And read, apparently - in newspapers of all things! How quaint. What’s particularly troubling here is that as a result there is no pressure to [...

?Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services ??

Posted on April 08, 2008
Alright already - will someone please blog about the Google web services story under a title that includes “Hey you, get off of my Cloud”? Similar Posts:None Found

?Bloggingheads: Do the Media Matter??

Posted on April 07, 2008
Cool - Rachel and David Corn on Bloggingheads. Come to mesh and meet Rach live and in person! Similar Posts:None Found

?Facebook is the AOL for web 2.0?

Posted on April 07, 2008
Bang on. Similar Posts:None Found

Yahoo and the tin cup

Posted on April 07, 2008
I sure am getting tired of seeing Jerry Yang selling pencils on the street corner. Similar Posts:None Found

?Microsoft Sets Deadline for Yahoo to Make Deal?

Posted on April 06, 2008
About a week or two after the original MSFT offer for YHOO, when it appeared that YHOO was going to be coy, I twittered that MSFT ought to serve up notice that failing immediate capitulation it would start reducing the offer. I was only being half-serious - that’s hardly cricket...

Mainstream Media Branding Nightmares, Version 465432

Posted on April 06, 2008
Not a great day for the Grey Lady. Similar Posts:None Found

?Stanford Launches On-Campus Venture Fund?

Posted on April 06, 2008
This is the coolest new idea I’ve seen in early-stage finance in a long time. Similar Posts:None Found

?As skewed as they are vapid?

Posted on April 05, 2008
Glenn Greenwald on the media’s determination to portray Democrats as elitist: One other point to note about all of this is that these fixations are as skewed as they are vapid. Barack Obama is an exotic elitist freak because he went to Harvard Law School and made $1 million from his book...

?There?s no such thing as work/life balance?

Posted on April 04, 2008
Jordan has a great post on “work/life balance”. Similar Posts:None Found

?Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Music Business?

Posted on April 04, 2008
Boy, Fred really had his wheaties this morning. Similar Posts:None Found

The people who live in the capital feel scarce any inconveniency from the war

Posted on April 04, 2008
Just noticed this quote from The Wealth of Nations in a recent Glennzilla post on Slate’s series of articles by liberal hawks on why they got Iraq so wrong (a series I simply had to finally stop reading, so transparently self-serving were the explanations offered): In great empires the people who live in the capital, and [...

?CRTC To Face Net Neutrality Issue as CAIP Demands Bell Cease and Desist Its Throttling Practices?

Posted on April 04, 2008
From Michael: “CAIP, Canada’s largest ISP association, has filed a Part VII application with the CRTC asking it to direct Bell Canada to cease and desist from throttling its wholesale Internet service.” Similar Posts:None Found

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