Has Google ever declared a dividend?  The answer is not exactly. The Wall Street Journal had an excellent follow-up story last week (“Sting that Cost Google Millions”) about Google’s drug sting and how responsibility for profiting from selling drugs went all the way to the top of the company’s executive team.  The sting was very […]

According to the Telegraph: “Nikesh Arora, chief business officer at Google, said that the launch of internet-enabled TV would have the same effect on broadcasting as the launch of sites such as iTunes had on music.  ‘Disaggregation in TV is coming up,’ he said. Mr Arora said that people would use internet television services such […]

By Gavin Castleton, a songwriter and producer from Portland, OR.  Follow him on Twitter @gavincastleton.  Gavin’s Facebook is http://www.facebook.com/gavincastletonmusic and his excellent Tumblr commentary page is http://gavincastleton.tumblr.com Copyright 2012 Gavin Castleton.  Used by permission of the author. Promoting “Buy Now” links on album pages and next to individual tracks. Allowing artists to edit their own profiles. […]

The Google-dominated NetCoalition lobbying group is run by this man: This is Markham Erickson, who, in another life, might have auditioned for Paul Revere & The Raiders.  This time, though, Markham Erickson’s NetCoalition (backed by Google and Wikipedia) is distributing hate pieces on “union thugs”.  And yes, that is the same Markham Erickson who ran another […]

There already is an effort to characterize Megavideo as just a little external hard drive lost in the woods and to try to obfuscate the obvious in a particularly Googly attempt to focus the public on the bright and shiny object so you pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.  Here’s a couple […]

Film Maker David Newhoff sat down with MTP’s Chris Castle to talk about his experiences as a film maker and the threats to creators from rogue sites (like Megavideo) and those who support them.  He recently joined the call for Congress to do something about rogue sites in The Hill.  (The interview continues in the next […]

Here’s a couple questions:  If Wikipedia takes copyright so seriously it actually monitors for copyright infringement and maintains an advanced state of copyright purity, then how is it that copyright infringement is not part of its function?  And exactly how did the “Wikipedia community” express its “stance” on rogue sites legislation?  Wasn’t it really more […]

An interesting contrast between an objective journalist and Jaron Lanier’s view–or said another way, reality. Molly Wood’s view of the rise of the Google Nation as expressed at the eponymous News.com: “In the aftermath of Wednesday’s SOPA/PIPA blackout protests, the Internet community amassed quite a bit of goodwill, flexed its muscles in a friendly, humorous, […]

Notice that in one year Google uses 1/2 the power generated by the Hoover Dam–I wonder how much comes from its sweetheart deal on power from the Columbia River to power its data center in The Dalles, Oregon–represented by Senator Ron Wyden in the U.S. Senate.  You know, the senator from Palo Alto High School […]

For those who attended my recent lectures, this is the new last slide, just add it to your decks.