The Portable Consultant

ECM infrastructure architecture… and unrelated matters.

Archive for the 'Grumbles' Category

With Amazon your ebooks are rented

by @ Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009. Filed under Copyfight, Emerging, Grumbles, New Media, New Paradigms, Security & Privacy

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 [...]

Facebook breaches Canadian privacy law

by @ Friday, July 17th, 2009. Filed under Grumbles, New Paradigms, Security & Privacy

Facebook needs to get its act together, but we also need to understand how important our personal info is …and take care not to sign it away without due diligence.

Adobe DRM and Carl Malamud’s Yes We Scan Campaign

by @ Sunday, March 22nd, 2009. Filed under Copyfight, Grumbles, New Paradigms, Open Source

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.

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