shouting loudly

Here’s a minilink to a NYT story about Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s new South Park deal (worth roughly $75m over 4 years), in which they get a share of ad revenue and seek to take the show online–in other words, to move on from Viacom’s 20th-Century business model.
Let me spoil the best part right [...]

On George Hotz’s blog, many commenters are urging him to patent his iPhone hack. This just misses the point.
Hotz is sad that, when he starts at RIT this fall, folks with more spare time will capitalize on his discovery. But he’s not sad that all this hacking will go on without his permission or without [...]

Discussions about Net Neutrality are oftentimes hard to follow, mostly because it is not always clear what exactly the concept ‘Net Neutrality’ means. That’s why it’s helpful to have a concrete example, and as such is offered by a situation across the pond: recently British newspapers have reported that several large ISPs in the UK [...]

There are often times when I wish I had my trusty digital voice recorder—the one that sent Senator Ted Stevens’ “series of tubes” anti-net neutrality speech into the Internet Meme Hall of Fame. Yesterday afternoon at the annual convention for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the most poignant such moment came [...]

Game Politics reports that another video game sales restriction law has been overturned in court. This time, it was the long-awaited decision on California’s 2005 law, upon which some other (since stalled or overturned) bills and laws were built. Game Politics is also hosting a PDF of the judge’s ruling, which looks a lot like [...]