Click Fraud and the Vanishing $150 Billion

…the small stones are rattling down the mountainside … As I’ve said before, the combination of money to be made on-line with the lure of anonymity, is making the webscape turn, in the words of Wired magazine, from the Wild West into 1920s Chicago...

Bloggers Can’t Be Sued

…thus breaking the heart of just about every self-important jackass in government these days… The legal definition of what constituted a journalist and how much said journalist has to abide by the rules, is one that is going to be wrestled with for decades...

Lexi.net Conference

I am off to the Lexi.net Conference in beautiful downtown Calgary. The subject: online identity.  Which is an issue that is growing in scope, complexity and urgency. The EFF conversation at the Annenberg Center on Tuesday that we attended (pics and video still...

Even Rummy Has His Defenders

…although they are a strange and alarming bunch… Douglas Feith, widely derided as one of the key reasons that Iraq descended into the Pit of Hell … a neocon Defender of the Faith venal and small-minded enough that Gen. Tommy Franks called him...

Buttons, buttons, which blog has the buttons?

Well, the profusion of little social-bookmarking buttons that I’ve been putting on the bottom of some of my more worthy posts seems to have drawn the ire of the webcritics at Signal vs. Noise: This focus on campaigning over content seems like a classic case of...