mono-culture

The Filmmaker Overview Essay

There is a genre of film criticism that I find intimidating enough that I've never managed to produce a piece of writing in it. I speak of the filmmaker overview essay. For a film-lover, it's an...

The Google Knol Threat to Content Businesses - a Wiki Plug-in Might Level The Playing Field

Does Knol (our review) make Google into a “content company”? Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis makes a compelling case. You can say he is conflicted, because his Mahalo venture has a lot to...

Manifesto to Avoid a Google Media Monoculture

For many decades we had a PC monoculture controlled by Microsoft and, to a lesser degree, by Intel. Today, in the world of online media, that same thing looks like it could happen. But it doesn't...

Could P2P Networks Enable a Google Killer?

Word association: P2P= Napster= disrupted the music industry. P2P technology certainly did that. Skype shook up telecoms and Joost may do the same for TV. P2P (Peer to Peer) networks could be a...

Knol: Good Attempt at Herding Knowledge Cats

After Peter Drucker told us in 1966 that we were becoming a knowledge economy, it was inevitable that big companies would spend lots of money on complex knowledge management systems. Most of those...

Security in Ten Years

This is a conversation between myself and Marcus Ranum. It will appear in Information Security Magazine this month. Bruce Schneier: Predictions are easy and difficult. Roy Amara of the Institute for...

Why Beauchamp Matters.

One issue that keeps coming up is the question of why this whole Beauchamp thing matters? The neoleft blogs - John Cole et alia - are all "hey, they have a small circulation, it's not a big deal why...

the age of the pirate is everlasting

Welcome to neverland! This is the place where you can never grow up. Float away with Peter Pan and the rights of indigenous people. Live the rest of your days under the fantastical sun and steal the...

Does America have a culture?

In Jihad vs. Mcworld, Benjamin Barber suggests that American culture is overtaking world culture, but how do we determine what is our culture and what is their culture. Is it not true that we began...

I'm finally killing my lawn! Okay, now what?

For a plant that stirs the bowels of ecogardeners and Torojockeys alike, turfgrass looks bland enough. And that's part of the problem - the monoculture that is the great greensward of American...