While digital rights management was under discussion at Berkeley last weekend, the nearby Stanford Center for Internet and Society held a conference titled “Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons?” Amy Harmon of the NY Times was there: technologists, economists and lawyers clashed over how the airwaves should be allocated with the …

A gathering of experts last Friday at a University of California at Berkeley conference on the law and policy of digital rights management seemed to produce a consensus: The DMCA is being used for purposes far afield from Congress’s original intention and is doing more harm than good: “There has …

N.Z. Bear’s blog ecosystem is back with some new fillips. Go check it out. I am fascinated by the fact that we are down the list a bit from where Tres Producers was even though tbomedia.co.uk gets about five-times the traffic. The ecosystem is based upon links from other blogs, …

For the three years it ran in the late ’60s Batman was my favorite show. I was between 8 and 10 when it ran, so I was young enough to think it exciting, but old enough to get the jokes and know the whole thing was pretty silly, but in …

MuchMusic, much in the news of late, will air the popular AOL online concert series: While many companies are considering putting shows online, the partners believe their project is the first time content has been repurposed in the other direction. This is AOL Music’s first television production. “With over 1 …

The Science Fiction Book Club celebrate their 50th anniversary by selecting “The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years, 1953-2002” 1 The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien 2 The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov 3 Dune, Frank Herbert 4 Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. …

Let’s say you’re a talented unknown singer. What’s the best thing that could happen to you? You get precious face time on American Idol as both a singer and a personality. Then, after making the semi-finals, you get kicked off the show, which leads to a public outcry and very …

You would think having your winkie severed and tossed off the side of the road would be enough to make you see the error of your ways, but not John Wayne Bobbitt, who is being sent to prison or parole violations: John Wayne Bobbitt is headed to prison after a …

Singer, songwriter, producer, actress, model, label owner, now children’s book writer: Madonna and Callaway Editions are creating an original series of five illustrated storybooks for young readers in association with Penguin Group. The English language rights to the five books, each of which will feature a different celebrated illustrator, have …

Kate Hudson handed out Oscars for Scientific and Technical achievement over the weekend: Scientists who develop the film, software and other technology behind the movies gathered for a Scientific and Technical awards ceremony at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel before the main Oscar pageant on March 23. Most years a …