A Rootkit by Any Other Name

January 14, 2006

Now that the Sony BMG DRM rootkit has brought that word national attention and perhaps everlasting shame, security vendors who use rootkit technology for benevolent ends are taking their lead from the e-mail marketing community’s antipathy to the word “spam” and seeking redefinition of the word “rootkit”. Infoworld has a piece on the story that […]

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The History of Neutrality

January 14, 2006

Lawrence Lessig criticizes the reported comments of Howard Waltzman, the majority chief telecom counsel of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and network neutrality opponent, who is reported to have said that net neutrality regulation would turn “broadband pipes into railroads and regulating them under common carriage”, and that “the reason the Internet has […]

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Cordless VoIP Handsets

January 13, 2006

The WSJ covers the growing cordless VoIP handset market today (paid sub now required).

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Parkdale – High Park Election Predictions

January 13, 2006

Democraticspace.com is calling this riding too close too call, though the current prediction has a slight margin in favour of the NDP.

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Hughtrain

January 13, 2006

Last night David Crow and I realized we have the same Hugh design on our business cards. Agent provocateur indeed.

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Treo 650 Woes

January 13, 2006

Mark Evans continues to grind his teeth over the Treo 650, but it now looks like the romance is gone.

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Matthew Good Speaks Out of Turn

January 13, 2006

I blogged yesterday about the new design here and mentioned that I had turned to the excellent work of Thought Mechanics – a joint gig by Theron Parlin and Matthew Good – for inspired design. Well yes, actually, it is that Matthew Good (I’m sure he’s by now weary of hearing that). Matthew has an […]

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A New Design for the Blog

January 12, 2006

After several months of on-and-off looking for design concepts for this blog I was very fortunate recently to meet Theron Parlin and Matthew Good of Thought Mechanics. After a short period of working out the main concepts for the design, Theron went to work and has done a terrific job of putting together an attractive […]

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More Observations From the All Candidates’ Debate

January 12, 2006

A reader, Stuart MacDonald, has contributed an excellent account of the All Candidates’s debate in the Parkdale High Park riding that I wrote about earlier today. It’s a detailed account of events of the evening – please give it a read.

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The New Battle for Control over the Internet

January 12, 2006

Jeff Pulver writes again on the topic today. I don’t have much to add; I’ve written about it extensively for months now – but he does link to an FT article that had escaped my attention, and his analysis rises to a nice rhetorical flourish that is also an interesting framing of the issue: “There […]

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More on the Democratizing Power of Blogging

January 12, 2006

I mentioned this in my post earlier today about the Bulte campaign issue, but another reference to it has just caught my eye. Peggy Noonan writes on the waning influence of the mainsteam media in the context of the Alito confirmation hearings: But this one is all kind of over, isn’t it? It definitively ended […]

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Most Favoured Nations Clauses in Digital Music: Collusion in Pricing?

January 12, 2006

Following on its recent coverage of the Spitzer investigation, the WSJ has another piece today on pricing in the digital music business – today’s article focuses on criticism of the apparently common use by large labels of MFN clauses, with allegedly anticompetitive results. The entire piece is interesting, but something else also caught my eye: […]

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