Social Change

Interesting question from an MIT blog. Apple says no; the Electronic Frontier Foundation says yes. In November, Mac blogs AppleInsider and PowerPage posted information about a product code-named “Asteroid,“ designed to let musicians plug their analog gear into a Mac, and supposedly to-be-announced at this week’s Macworld Conference. Unhappy as always about the leak, Apple filed suit in a California ...

I always hafta laugh when I see these articles about how some guy just figured out how to make distribution of content easier by putting together two pieces of evolving technology. In this case it’s combining peer-to-peer with RSS. The chuckle is that the music and movie industries and about every other content provider hates this and takes legal steps ...

What is it about the new year that gets minds to speculating about the future? (See the NYTimes article about the future of the Net, for instance.) Last week Mike Mitchell brought to FICenter members’ attention the ideas that had been posted at Edge: The World Question Center asking people to answer the question: “What do you believe is true ...

I was reading Ed Duke’s post about Wiki’s and decided to go look up the American Cancer Society entry on the online wiki Encyclopedia.  Sure enough, as another Blog poster had pointed out, there is something negative attached to our entry. It was basically a refrence to an anti-acs web site run by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Basically ...