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From this NY Times article: “It’s as if culture froze just before it became digitally open, and all we can do now is mine the past like salvagers picking over a garbage dump,” Mr. Lanier writes. Or, to use another of his grim metaphors: “Creative people — the new peasants — come to resemble animals converging ...

On December 15th, 2009 BoingBoing posted this entry, about an anti-copyright project by Nina Paley, known for Sita Sings The Blues, an animated full-length movie released under Creative Commons. The project entails releasing an animated video under a Creative Commons license and allowing anyone on the internet to work on the audio. This is a very ...

From Ars Technica: Now AT&T Vice President James Cicconi says that's fine, just as long as the final Order "eschews a strict nondiscrimination standard and instead focuses on 'unreasonable and anticompetitive' forms of discrimination that adversely affect consumers." This phrasing is somewhat similar, AT&T notes, to the old 1934 Communications Act common carrier language that banned ...

Amidst completely unfounded rumors of a $99 Google Phone possibly making rounds next years into people's pockets, I ask myself, is it worth it? How much would you be willing to pay for a smartphone? How much of your life would you be willing to give over to a single company? I'm no zealot in these ...

Cracked.com ran a piece about the 6 species we're killing off for the most retarded reason, and their first entry was the so called "guajon" or as we know it coquí, a native breed of frog. Cracked states how it was driven to near extinction because of superstitions surrounding it and the sound it makes which ...

Ok, so everyone has heard about Google Chrome OS so I'm not gonna speculate on it (much)...Google wants us to use their webapps. That much is obvious. Everyone is going on about how the open standards Chrome OS will push will no doubt open up the web and take us away from proprietary things such as ...