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Copyfight - Feb 6, 2008
Oops, not so fast. Yesterday I blogged about Qtrax, a company with big claims to be providing ad-supported music downloads. An alert reader sent me a pointer to a Guardian Unlimited story in which UMG, Warner and EMI …
Tagged: ip markets and monopolies
Total Experience - Feb 5, 2008
My original title for this was "Changing the Rules", but then I saw the broader beauty of what's being done here. Start with a good recipe: Find an experience people complain about...a lot. [Get your ideas from the …
In the Pipeline - Feb 5, 2008
Commenting appears to still be hosed around here, which is a shame, because I have some ask-the-readership posts stacked up. Writing posts under these conditions feels like shouting into a void! I hope things will be …
Tagged: general scientific news
In the Pipeline - Feb 5, 2008
The topic of “me too” drugs has come up quite a bit around here over the years. For the most part, I’m a defender, although there are some places I draw the line (Clarinex for Claritin comes to mind as a particularly …
Tagged: me too drugs
Copyfight - Feb 5, 2008
If you've been around politics since the last US Presidential election you might remember some of the popular parodies such as JibJab's "This Land Is My Land". I haven't seen a comparably memorable parody yet this …
Tagged: big thoughts
Copyfight - Feb 5, 2008
I tend to avoid most digital music stories not because they're not Copyfight-able but because I find them boring. After eight-going-on-nine years of the Copyright Wars there's very little new in the trench warfare. So …
Tagged: ip markets and monopolies
Total Experience - Feb 2, 2008
Great video review of the Amazon Kindle by Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid742148386/bctid1327153737 [reference previous post on Amazon Kindle]
Tagged: innovation and concept design
In the Pipeline - Feb 2, 2008
As many of your have noticed, there's been some software upheaval behind the scenes here the last few days. Many comments aren't getting through at all, and the others are showing up in the system, but not on the …
Tagged: blog housekeeping
In the Pipeline - Feb 2, 2008
1. You’ve got a compound repository, right? Lots of vials, robot retrieval systems if you’ve got the cash, all that stuff? What fraction of those vials are full of sticky stuff that are colored warning shades of dark …
Tagged: life in the drug labs
In the Pipeline - Feb 2, 2008
Over at Megan McArdle's site at The Atlantic Monthly, there's been a run of posts on the pharmaceutical industry - touched off, I think, by this one from over here. Her readers are a diverse bunch, some of whom seem to …
Tagged: business and markets