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Shel Holtz
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A federal appeals court decided on August 19 that the Grokster and Morpheus—two of the more promiment file sharing networks—were legal. In the face of that ruling, the only thing left for the Recording Industry Association of America was to advocate a law that would overturn the 9th Circuit’s ruling. Leave it to the RIAA to suggest outlawing an entire technology in order to keep…

My daughter has been using text messaging on her cell phone for a few years now. When driving, we constantly hear the chirping sound her phone makes when a friend has sent her a message. She thumbs in her reply and the conversation continues. These are social discussions of little consequence, and they’re all one-to-one in nature. I’ve even had text messages…

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has spent the last couple of years suing its customers in an effort to hold back the tide of technology and protect its vice-like grip on the intellectual property of the artists it represents. The focus of all this legal maneuvering has been Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, mainly Kazaa, where music lovers upload songs…

The City of Brotherly Love envisions that the entire city can be turned into one giant WiFi hotspot for a measley $10 million. The plan would deliver broadband speeds just about anywhere, including poor neighborhoods where residents can’t afford high-speed Internet connections. The thinking currently is to offer the service for free—or at least at a rate drastically lower than the DSL and…

Mike Manuel of Media Guerilla offers a post about his first brush with Blabble.

The service is in beta so you can’t test it without becoming an authorized beta tester, but examples on the home page offer a taste of what Blabble can do. If you’re into a PR measurement, it could become a standard tool. Enter a search term (in the case…

Maciej Ceglowski, former oil painter and current Perl programmer, has posted a manifesto on audioblogging on Idle Words, his blog. Ceglowski points to a couple of good examples, but then derides the whole concept as a contradiction of the Web’s purpose. For example, he says, you can’t choose what you want to hear and what you want to skip. You can’t read ahead. You…

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