Blu-Ray and HD-DVD Copy Protection Defeated
This is some pretty big news in the realm of consumer media. A hacker going by the name of Arnezami has retrieved keys critical to unlocking HD content. Using a USB sniffer, HD-DVD playback software...
View ArticleThree Links: Measuring Page Views, Cloverleaf, and RIM on AT&T/iPhoney
Counting page views as a measurement tool for traffic ranking of websites is out. Average visit length is in. Want a metric? According to Google Analytics, my Dave Matthews Band fan site, Weekly...
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Disney Takes A Stronger Position on Health
Walt Disney has become the first Hollywood studio to take smoking out of all of its films. I didn’t notice any smokers in Ratatouille, and I couldn’t see them in a new traditional film from Disney...
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The Concept of Self and Use of RFID on the iPhone in Entertainment and Social...
My friend Elissa turned me on to an article by William Deresiewicz titled The End of Solitude that addresses the culture of celebrity and connectivity as symptoms of an impulse for becoming known....
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MIA Born Free Video
Just saw MIA’s Born Free video for the first time. It contains life-like violence and is difficult to watch. But it yields a striking combination of sound and imagery with a purpose. Boing Boing has...
View ArticleSteve Jobs on Loyalty
This isn’t exactly Steve Jobs on loyalty, but rather comments from Joshua Michael Stern, director of the new Steve Jobs film JOBS: “… I think that he was loyal to his vision and he was loyal to the one...
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