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We’ve been hit bad by comment spam the last few weeks. Each time we get a good discussion thread going, it seems the comment spam bots flood in. I usually try to erase these when I find them, but we were losing a lot of good discussion. So I’ve taken action. I’ve implemented CAPTCHA on […]

The Seventh Crisis in Context

The crisis this comes closest to is the 1890s crisis. It was centered on the election of 1896, in which the populist William Jennings Bryan lost to regular Republican William McKinley. That crisis was defined, however, by the rise of Theodore Roosevelt, who fought in the imperialist Spanish-American War, was elected Governor New York later in 1898, was nominated as Vice President “to get rid of him,” and succeeded to the Presidency when McKinley was assassinated in 1901.

Media Business Model Dying

Media companies will always use online as a defensive shield. They don't understand, and by their nature will never understand, that the nature of the Internet (as a medium) is interaction, interactivity, the audience creating the show itself. Unless media companies can steal that creativity for themselves (and folks don't give it away for long) they're never going to "get it."

Real Patent Reform

At the heart of patent reform must be the publication of patents. Patent applicants must disclose what they're patenting, and this should be public information. Existing patents also need wide publicity, so they can find their market.

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