Today's links
- Interop and the Public Interest Internet: To fight network effects, reduce switching costs.
- This day in history: 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 15 Jul 2021
Today's links
- Facebook's alternative facts: If you don't like your transparency portal's data, shut it down.
- This day in history: 2001, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 14 Jul 2021
Today's links
- Facebook employees stalk users: Moral hazard vs the ACCESS Act.
- This day in history: 2001, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 12 Jul 2021
Today's links
- Podcasting "Tech Monopolies and the Insufficient Necessity of Interoperability": Corporate rivalries vs public power.
- The Sacklers will get to keep billions: What's a little mass-murder between friends?
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Are we having fun yet?
Amusement parks, crowd control, and load-balancing
Pay for play
The news that Disneyland Paris is now selling Fast Passes — a skip-the-line ticket — for about $10 per person per ride has theme park watchers debating whether this is the destiny of all Disney parks and, if so, what it means for the future of theme parks.
You may not care about this, but the creation, maintenance, and operation of immersive built environments is an old art form with enormous cultural significance and few practitioners. The curious pleasures of an immersive built environment go back at least as far as the Sun King’s palace at Versailles and the winding path of built environments from elite follies to mass entertainment runs in parallel to the changing currents in populism, commodification, and participation.
Pluralistic: 10 Jul 2021
Today's links
- Biden's Right to Repair will include electronics, too: Part of a broad antimonopoly agenda.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 08 Jul 2021
Today's links
- Indonesia's gig work tech resistance: Tuyul apps and the IT of the Road.
- Owning a sports-team is a plute's get-out-of-tax-free card: Here's what to do about it.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 07 Jul 2021
Today's links
- Technological self-determination: Competition is a means, not an end.
- Biden delivers Right to Repair via executive order: End of the line for John Deere's asshole lobbyists.
- Comic book store files comic-book lawsuit: Third Planet Comics has already won its case…in my heart.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 06 Jul 2021
Today's links
- Quantifying copyright reversion: The first-of-its-kind dataset of creators who took back their rights.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 05 Jul 2021
Today's links
- Conspiracy fantasy: The political significance and personal appeal of conspiratorialism.
- Podcasting "Self Publishing": My column on monopolism, publishing, and the fortunes of authors.
- This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading