The amazing rise and reach of Netflix has (apparently) had some effect on reducing illegal movie downloads. It's not much of a study, and the correlation-causation argument certainly needs to be addressed, but I think it represents a much bigger ...Read More

What the DEA can learn from Netflix

The flaw in any political system is in the humanity of it. So shouldn’t we be working towards reducing and eventually removing this weakness? Yes, I’m talking about computers running our governments… This would ensure all decisions were rational and accurate, ...Read More

When politicians become computer technicians

  Attention has become an absolute value for online marketing: the more people talk, good or bad, the better it is for you (assuming you are building your brand in the digital world, not transferring an established brand from the traditional ...Read More

How long till politicians create their own scandals?

The digital era has completely restructured the music industry in many ways. Napster allowed people to share music (usually illegally) among themselves, iTunes repackaged the product that musicians could sell, and YouTube provided a platform for ...Read More

When will YouTube come to politics?

It’s so easy to talk about the glorious revolution when you are far away, either in place or time. But a revolution by definition is a drastic change -- something for which humans are not well constructed, especially on the ...Read More

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In the 2008 presidential election only 63% of the eligible population voted. 63%. That means almost 4 out of every 10 Americans who had a legal voice in determining the leader of this country for the next four years kept silent. I ...Read More

Facebook-based voting for 2012.