The Portable Consultant

The Portable Consultant was both dismayed and amused to read that Amazon does not actually “sell” the books you “buy” for your Kindle.
Let’s be clear: if your property can be altered, recalled, or reclaimed by the seller without your permission and knowledge you never really owned that property. Home foreclosure and car repossession are other [...]

Having enjoyed Carl Malamud’s 1992 book Exploring the Internet: A Technical Travelogue, I was interested to hear that he is still pursuing his attempts to free public information from the reluctant hands of bureaucrats through his “Yes We Scan” campaign for Public Printer of the United States.

The other morning The Portable Consultant caught the second part of a two part interview (RealMedia ram) with Canada’s Industry Minister Jim Prentice on CBC’s (very) early morning business show, The Business Network.
(It’s sad that this business show is relegated to the ridiculously early time slot of 5:45 AM in Canada’s centre of business, [...]