How MAPI Beat VIM (an historical footnote)

In a post on ZDNet today, David Berlind points out that Microsoft’s grip on the desktop market is due More...

Disrupting the Venture Capital Industry

All venture capitalists (VCs)  SAY that they like to invest in disruptive technology; some VCs (the best ones) actually do invest in disruptive technologies.More...

Fatah’s Final Failure

Imagine you’re a Palestinian.  You finally get to vote in a real election: multiple candidates, your finger dipped in ink, Jimmy Carter monitoring, the whole nine yards.More...

The World Economic Forum at Davos Continued

There’s an interesting blog by NY Times and International Herald Tribune reporters at Davos this year.&# More...

The Chinese Subpoena

I wonder what will happen when Google gets a subpoena from the government of China asking who was trying to access the censored sites.  Not sure what the procedures are there for challenging a government request.

Not to make light of either the thorny issue of the US subpoena - a cha More...

The World Economic Forum at Davos

You may have noticed that this week many news stories are being filed from Davos, Switzerland.  That is because the World Economic Forum (WEF) is being held there this year – as More...

Security vs. Privacy

This is one of those issues which is too important for partisanship, ad hominem attacks, or sloganeering.  It’s not an exaggeration t More...

Did You Come Here from Freakonomics?

If so, you probably mean to be at hackoff.com - the website from which you can read or listen free to the podcasts of More...

Vonage Out(r)age

[update: the problem was cleared up by the next morning.  I didn't wait up so don't know how long it took and there was no communication from Vonage on the forum or elsewhere I;ve seen acknowledging either the actual More...

Search Down Memory Lane

Was reading John Battelle’s excellent book More...