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 ...

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.  ...

Software IP and Games – which model applies?

Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Video Games | 2 Comments »

At the moment, video games, because they are software, are covered by copyright.  But traditionally, games were covered by patent. Hmm.  I've argued before that software should be sui generis, governed by a hybrid model of patent and copyright: The Source Door: ...

How to make the Massive Tech Show into a massive tech show

Saturday, April 26th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology, Privacy, Video Games, Virtual Worlds | 1 Comment »

I've been critical of the Vancouver Massive Tech Show both here and on Tazzu. I've branded it as boring, uninspired, a waste of an afternoon, and anything but either massive or a show. I've been challenged to propose something better, ...