CES and the watershed moment
I am sat in Merida, Mexico at the moment when perhaps I should be in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show, but even so I have been keeping an eye on matters each morning...
Category: Technology
.xxx top-level domain back on the agenda
Well, Stuart Lawley won’t take no for any answer and .xxx has popped up on the ICANN agenda again, this time with such extraordinary controls and safeguards that it makes you wonder whether the business...
Vista and Net governance discussion on the BBC
I took place in a discussion with various notables just before Xmas for an edition of the BBC’s Digital Planet radio programme and just remembered it has now come out and you can download and...
Skweezer – when copy theft becomes a business model
I was surprised to find this morning when reviewing stats for my Sexdotcom.info site that a site called Skweezer.net has appeared. I was even more surprised when I followed links through and found that this...
Measuring the Web’s impact on news
Some greater force has prevented me from doing any work today. And so this blog post is an attempt to at least do *something* constructive today. I am half expecting my laptop to blow up...
ICANN Board discussion of biz/org/info contracts
On Friday, the ICANN Board approved some controversial renewal contracts for the .biz, .info and .org top-level Internet domains. In a press conference a few hours later, chairman Vint Cerf urged the reporters to read...
Online participation: the possibilities and the realities
I’ve spent quite a bit of time recently building and running online participation websites – or, in English, trying to get people on the Internet learning about and interacting with physical meetings. Both have been...
Online participation website for ICANN
So I was asked by ICANN’s “executive officer and vice president for corporate affairs” Paul Levins to do an online participation website for its meeting in São Paulo, starting officially on Monday. Paul was at...
The dotcom contract and dangerous USG myopia
I am very tired so I have had to check what the new dotcom agreement – amended and then approved late yesterday by the US government’s Department of Commerce – actually says several times before...
Guardian article on IDNs. Wait for the complaints…
I forgot to mention yesterday that I had an article on IDNs in The Guardian: “How engineers tamed the internet’s Tower of Babel“, which was basically an attempt to explain one of the other sides...