Culture and Society

Our good pal, esteemed blogger, killer songwriter, and genuine ROCK STAR Dr. Frank has moved to a new locale, now called Dr. Frank’s Blogs of War. He was the first Blogs of War before the name was horned in on by interlopers who have never done shit for me. But …

Phillip has very kindly kindly referenced my new MSNBC story on Metallica and the Internet – there is a sub-feature on other bands that goes with it. Thanks! Many other bands are also taking advantage of the Internet to add value to their packages: Metallica certainly isn’t the first artist …

While the entertainment industry and the Ashcroft Justice Department seek to erode or cripple free exchange over the Intenet, some are working to keep it free: We are creating an anonymizing storage network – a network that resembles the World Wide Web, but is capable of allowing people to publish …

ISP's are lazy about handling abuse, and in turn are creating a hostile environment for users. When will it stop?

The megalomania continues – Microsoft in Wired: Microsoft has two visions for the future of digital media: unlimited choice for consumers, and unlimited control for producers. One thing’s for sure, it’s unlimited opportunity for Redmond. ….These two homes represent two futures. The first is what consumers want: digital media their …

Dude is down on Nokia (scroll down “News”): Between your insulting advertising, shitty fucking product and infuriating public comments it’s almost like you are TRYING to get gamers to hate you. I honestly cannot understand how a single company could make so many mistakes. I await your next move with …

Very interesting thoughts on blog design from web designer Eric Siegmund: This “personal publishing revolution” that many of us are participating in has created new opportunities for expression, but it’s also created new problems that authors and journalists never before had to deal with. How many mainstream journalists, for example, …

Tells Congress it needs MORE POWER: The Federal Trade Commission asked Congress yesterday for broader powers to attack the rapidly growing problem of spam, which new studies show accounts for half of all e-mail traffic. In joint testimony, Chairman Timothy J. Muris and the four other commissioners told House and …

Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp with the latest development: The new optic-fiber technology will increase communication speeds to one gigabyte per second, up from 100 megabytes per second now available for homes and offices, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said in its evening edition. The technology developed by NTT, Japan’s …

ReplayTV is eliminating the PVR’s abilities to skip commercials automatically and send shows through the Internet, two of its best features, sealing its own doom – good thinking: Executives at DNNA, the D&M Holdings Inc. subsidiary that bought the Replay line from Sonicblue Inc., said they made the concessions to …