Tag Archives: digital life

Outraged about your cable bill? Not yet you aren’t.

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I’ve got thirteen channels of sh*t  on the TV to choose from. -‘Nobody Home’ by Pink Floyd The above quote is so archaic at this point in time that you want to tousle its hair and tell it how adorable it is. Have you looked at how many channels you have access to recently? The descriptor is still fairly accurate, though it’s through the eyes of the beholder. There are just way too many channels that I will never watch, and I’d love to not have to pay for them. Sports would Read more [...]

Dear Apple, it’s not you…it’s me.

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I’m done with iTunes and iPods and iWhatever. Last night, courtesy of the fine folks at Amazon.com’s shipping department, I received a 16GB microsd card for my Nexus One phone. I’ve been really looking forward to moving the rest of my mobile experience to the Android platform, which has really become an integral part of my life over the past couple of months. I use it for virtually everything now, and I’ve finally discovered what people must mean when they talk about a smart phone. Google Read more [...]

Excellent post from Blake Ross re: James Kim

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I thought this was an exceptional post regarding the reaction to James' death, and how we as a community reacted to it. Also a nice thought about the "new media". Some have speculated that James Kim’s tech celebrity drew disproportionate attention to his story relative to the thousands of other people who go missing each day. But I had never heard of James, watched his videos or read his articles. This tragedy engulfed me because over the past 7 days I got to know the Kim family, Read more [...]

Follow-up – MPAA Story

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Apparently, the MPAA has "taken into account" the exact flaw that I described in my earlier post. They specifically asked study respondents how many of the movies they pirated would have been purchased (or viewed in theaters) if they could not have pirated them. Fear not, though...they're still a bunch of booger-heads. According to ArsTechnica, nobody has seen the survey. The press release was merely a collection of talking points, with none of the data revealed. Ars brings up two good points: You Read more [...]

Big Content probably full of crap again – nothing new here.

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Yesterday, one of the agents of "Big Content" (the MPAA) released the news that they had lost over six billion dollars in 2005, due to piracy worldwide. Yet again, they seem to be failing to take a number of factors into consideration. Let me say upfront that piracy is a real issue. I do not dispute that. I think Big Content is losing some real money here. But I also believe that they are overstating their case in an effort to make it easy for the politicians they've bought to get whatever shenanigan-laden Read more [...]