Photographing Tonight’s Lunar Eclipse

Listening to fellow entrepreneurs speak at the Defrag conference in Denver today, I realized that a lot of my brethren were uttering a phrase I often find escaping my own lips.  "My customers are using my product in ways I never thought of before." It struck me, not because my pure brilliance is being stolen…

Privacy matters.  We all should be able to keep things private when done in the privacy of our own homes.  But when you go out on the public Internet, no absolute right to privacy exists.  Nor should it.  Tracking your clickstream, using cookies to measure visitor behavior and perhaps target ads, building databases of activity,…

The web enables activists to deploy innovative and often humorous campaigns — often efforts that would have been far more difficult and certainly much more costly using traditional methods. The current economic crisis has stirred frustration and anger among many. One West Coast activist is now taking advantage of new media to drive home his…

I missed this January 29 New York Times (registration) story when it first came out, but apparently More than 100 judicial rulings have relied on Wikipedia, beginning in 2004, including 13 from circuit courts of appeal, one step below the Supreme Court. (The Supreme Court thus far has never cited Wikipedia.) The article does a…