Lynne Kiesling This week marks the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 15th anniversary. EFF is a tireless warrior for preserving and enhancing freedom as communication and information technology evolves. Cory Doctorow has a Boing Boing post discussing EFF’s activities over the past 15 years: This week marks the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 15th anniversary — a decade and …
Lynne Kiesling Catching up on my reading … Ray Gifford has a nice post on the role broadband over power lines can play in creating the distributed, interactive, active-demand-enabling, smart and resilient electric power network. BPL potentially has a large role to play in enabling grid-friendly appliances and the customization of electric power service to …
Lynne Kiesling I don’t have much to say about Grokster because I’m of many minds about it. Turns out I’m not alone; Tyler says economists should feel conflicted about peer-to-peer file sharing. One aspect of Tyler’s argument is what I call the “relevant and irrelevant externality” argument. Will file sharing reduce economic efficiency, leading to …
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Lynne Kiesling Everyone’s talking about eBay’s 10th anniversary. NPR is running a series of stories on Morning Edition. The Economist’s print edition this week has a cover article on eBay, with clever art: Much of the analysis focuses on the lessons to learn from eBay’s success. The Economist article put it succinctly: To succeed, firms …
Lynne Kiesling Russ Roberts has an absolutely wonderful essay at Caf? Hayek. Russ uses a recent FedEx transaction, and how sure he was that his package would arrive unmolested and on time, as a starting point: My lack of worry at FedEx is different. It can’t be trust. There are too many people touching my …
Lynne Kiesling A bill pending in the Texas Senate would open up the market for broadband over power lines in the state, according to this Ft. Worth Star Telegram article from Monday. Note in this excerpt that the issue of who pays for the service and why they pay for it is present, as it …
Lynne Kiesling On Sunday Radley Balko had a disturbing, if not surprising, note about possible regulation of cable and satellite channels. He quotes a column in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: A U.S. Senate bill authorizing government censorship of cable and satellite TV channels references children 44 times and the First Amendment not at all. His post …
Lynne Kiesling Back home, enjoying the early morning alertness that comes with east-west-flying jet lag … one of the first places I went was Virginia Postrel’s new Forbes column on the Barry Schwartz & Company anti-choice literature. I’ve always found these anti-choice arguments unpersuasive; at worst you can argue that too much choice can increase …
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Lynne Kiesling Most people who like to observe human action and its inherent dynamism (in tension with some inherent stasism, too) seem to be fascinated by cities. I love cities ? their histories, their energy, their culture, their architecture (and yes, let?s admit it, their restaurants, and shopping). The various neighborhoods in east London are …
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