by Jeff Yablon | Feb 26, 2010 | Business Process, Media
How can US Senators be so unclear about the meaning of the laws they write? Today Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, who not coincidentally chairs the antitrust subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked NBC to explain why certain Olympic events, available on...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 25, 2010 | Business Process, Media
I’m being less social. My Twitter Community has spoken. As cool a thing as social networking is (or can be), every time you write something you risk rubbing the people who follow you the wrong way. You probably want to avoid the “I’m Eating...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 23, 2010 | Media
Who said using computers was easy? I’ve been a computer geek (umm . . . not really, but close . . . think of me as Leo LaPorte without the bazillion viewers) for a long time. I remember the days when people thought that the little tray that popped out of the...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 18, 2010 | Business Process, Media
The Whining Has Gone Mainstream. Even the Whining Requires Whining. Yesterday, there was a lengthy article in The New York Times about companies that buy patents and then go after companies using the matter covered by those patents for licensing fees. Specifically,...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 16, 2010 | Business Process, Content, Media
A few days ago, and with no notice at all, Google deleted a handful of blogs. <POOF!> Gone. Just like that. Most of the attention to this has focused on what those blogs did; they were repositories for music, and while there were reviews attached (for example)...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 11, 2010 | Business Process, Media
I can think for myself. So can you. While a lot of what I write here has the potential to be inflammatory in one way or another and while nothing’s off limits, I don’t spend a lot of time being purely political. Yes, I’ve commented on health care...
