Does knowing the government watches and records you change the way you invoke other basic rights like attorney/client privilege, doctor/patient confidentiality, or freedom of speech?

I bet it does.

Netflix Doesn’t Need Viacom

by Christopher Paul on June 18, 2013

Great for Netflix, parents, and kids. Good for Dreamworks Animation.

Netflix doesn’t need Viacom to be popular with paying consumers. In fact, I don’t think the content Amazon picked up is as valuable. Considering there are already so many characters on Netflix, I don’t see how Viacom can justify keeping its Nickelodeon properties off it unless you want to hide them.

Steve Wozniak: This Is Not My America

by Christopher Paul on June 18, 2013

It took hundreds of years to develop the concepts captured in The Constitution.

via Tech Dirt

Vine Crawler

by Christopher Paul on June 17, 2013

I must be getting old. Not only am I learning that Vine was an aquisition and not a home grown product from Twitter[1] but that I’m learning about the homegrown Vine search engine from The Atlantic.

via


  1. Or maybe I just didn’t care when it was announced and forgot all about the product and news.  ↩

Steve Jobs Read Apple Rumor Sites

by Christopher Paul on June 17, 2013

I don’t know what I liked more about this article: knowing that Steve Jobs read Apple rumor sites or this about a “low cost e-book self publishing” post:

Later in the email exchange, he asked, “Are we going to let anyone self-publish? Does Amazon?” (“Yes and yes,” replied Cue.)

Quartz via Dave Winer