Technology (law) is everywhere!

Monday, December 28th, 2009 Posted in Business, Business Law, Info Dynamics Intelligence, Information Technology | No Comments »

In "Business @ the Speed of Thought," (Chapters-Indigo Link), which I mentioned some time ago (Information is the Good, the Currency, and the Era) and which Bill Gates wrote a decade ago, the examples given are pointedly not information technology ...

Information is the Good, the Currency, and the Era

Friday, July 10th, 2009 Posted in Business, Communications, Info Dynamics Intelligence, Information Technology | 1 Comment »

I’m reading “Business @ the Speed of Thought,” by Bill Gates.  (Chapters-Indigo Link Here)  He wrote it ten years ago, which allows me the critical distance I prefer when reading a book that prognosticates. Say what you will about MS Windows, ...

On Virtual Travel

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Posted in Information Technology, Video Games, Virtual Worlds | 2 Comments »

Why would a denizen of a virtual world want to cross over into another virtual world, especially if she couldn't bring her special powers, skills, or goods into that other world?  This was the question asked in a comment the ...

Who carries your Web 2.0 banner?

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology | No Comments »

What's at stake when you let others step in your online footprint? I wrote here about the possibility of something resembling agency through social networking / Web 2.0 / user-created content a short time ago.  I am now in the fortunate ...

Laws for the Virtual Universe

Saturday, March 21st, 2009 Posted in Information Technology, Legal Explorations, Video Games, Virtual Worlds | 3 Comments »

What if virtual worlds, no matter their purposes, narratives, unique details, and other variations, could be linked?  What if they had borders between them, keeping the right stuff in its place, but in other ways being permeable? I am in the ...

Richard Stallman came to Vancouver, and I upset him

Thursday, February 19th, 2009 Posted in Civil Liberties, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 6 Comments »

Richard Stallman was in Vancouver two weeks ago.  He performed, if I may describe his lectures like that, three times; I caught the first.  I asked Stallman a question after it was over, and thoroughly annoyed him.  I know that ...

Does WOM or Social Network Marketing Create Agency?

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology | 4 Comments »

We are now near the end of January, and I realize it has been a little while since my last post.  Before leaving LexisNexis, I prepared a proposal, formatted as a white paper, for a position specializing in information management.  ...

What would you call open-source marketing?

Friday, December 26th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 5 Comments »

President-Elect Barack Obama raised $264.5M through April 30, 2008, thrice that raised by his opponent, Senator John McCain. Studies at the FEC, The Campaign Finance Institute, The Center for Responsive Politics , George Washington University, indicate that a massive ...

EU suggests reason and logic behind ACTA

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Posted in Civil Liberties, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »

I've just finished reading the ACTA Fact Sheet, updated November 2008.  Here is some preliminary information: ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The subtitle "Fact Sheet" is footnoted, "This fact sheet purports ...

New ways of looking at video game IP

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Video Games, Virtual Worlds | 1 Comment »

I suggested the other day that we use video games as the industry in which to consider hybrid IP for software. I suggested this because video game software, more than any other kind of software, still retains the elements that were ...