School Reaps Profits From Corporate Naming Rights
More evidence of the increasing incursion of commercial media into schools as we read of the "ShopRite (Gym) of Brooklawn Center and the Flowers Library and Media Center." I certainly agree that corporations should support schools. Only I think they should do it the same way the rest of us have to: through their taxes, and without what amounts to free advertising. This is an issue of fairness: if a corporation can spend its money to get its message into schools, then why can't I? My taxes pay for, at least, a locker. More...

The Nuclear Weapon of Digital Rights Law
The legal system is intended to balance the interests of people against each other. Protections for one person come at the cost of liberties for another, ownership of property for one person comes at the cost of need for another. When these balances are tipped too far to one direction or the other, the inherent fairness expected and demanded of law is lost, and it is not surprising when people abandon their faith in it, for justice, from their perspective, is to be found only outside its domains. More...

The Law of Content
The most important thing I said last year was this: Apple uses music to sell iPods, not iPods to sell music. I will refer to this henceforth as "AUMSINISM". Clip this out, print it in foot high letters, and post it on your wall. If you don't get this, then you don't get the information economy. More...