While the EU Parliament may approve Right to Be Forgotten regulations this summer, closer to home, US social media companies have a smaller front in …
The EU’s proposed “Right to be Forgotten” has become a major point of contention for US companies doing business across the Atlantic–more precisely it’s a …
Over on another channel, I’ve been writing about some of the grumblings towards the EU’s proposed changes to their landmark Data Protection Directive. The grumbles …
While I was grappling with privacy issues swirling around data brokers and Facebook’s inadequate protection of minors, along comes a company called BusinessLeads to further …
Social media and our too-much-information online culture has brought new life to an old privacy vulnerability. The kind of privacy loophole I’m referring to has …
PowerInbox may just be the productivity booster you’ve been looking for. That is, if productivity is measured in terms of conveniently accessing social networks within …
Financial blogger Barry Ritholtz has posted a gigantic chart comparing the dot com boom-bust cycle with our current startup and IPO frenzy.
It’s worth gazing at on your iPad or Samsung Tab in between rounds of beach volley ball.
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The FCC released another paperweight-class report.
Entitled The Information Needs of Communities, this 478 pager (with footnotes) is “an in-depth analysis of the current state of the media landscape along with a broad range of recommendations.”
Produced by journalists, academics, entrepreneurs, and led by Steve Waldman, a former editor and the founder of Beliefnet, the report has the obviousities you would expect, including newspaper revenue has dropped, local TV is a not source of investigative reporting, and the Internet has reduced the cost of gathering and distributing news.Continue reading
Congress announced on Monday that they will start the process of revising the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The key committee players (Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Sen. John Kerry, Rep. Henry Waxman, and Rep. John Boucher) will bring together “stakeholders” in a “series of bi-partisan, issue focused meetings beginning in June.”
As you may vaguely remember, the ’96 legislation was intended to spur innovation and competition by forcing the incumbents to unbundle parts of their networks and make them available to competitive carriers at wholesales prices.
The incumbents resisted mightily both in the trenches and in the courts, and the competitive carriers that have survived to this day are just holding on.
There is a big difference this time around as Congress rolls out 2.0 of the Act. Continue reading
The Old West had the Colt .45, the New York restaurant scene has Twitter. The New York Times’ Julia Moskin tells how restaurateurs, chefs, and …
