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02/08/10

Gibbs wants to watch the sausage making of the law in action as it happens, no matter where it happens. When will the Supremes let him?

You'll never guess what this week's topic is …

01/29/10

How could Mark Gibbs resist writing about the Apple iPad? He couldn't.

Shift happens and reality doesn't go away

01/22/10

The New York Times plans to stop letting you get its content for free but the world has changed and its plan will fail. They should read more history.

Sins of commission and omission

01/18/10

Gibbs ponders the nature of those opposing network neutrality and whether we, those who understand the issues, are sinners.

Danger: Facts ahead

01/08/10

Mark Gibbs ponders the latest round of irrational legislation concerning cell phones and warnings and sees it as the thin end of a political wedge that prefers half-truths and misinformation over science and facts.

2010 Outlook: Better than 2009 and moderately wild

01/04/10

Gibbs's editor asked him to get out his crystal ball and ponder the New Year. Cross his palm with silver and maybe he'll reveal the future …

Merry Christmas, Mr. Pettigrew

12/21/09

Mark Gibbs relates how Fidelity Investment has pretty much ruined the Christmas of four of their employees for what the company considers "gambling" on company time. The problem is that it was hardly gambling. Let the punishment fit the crime? Hah!

On being social: The Twelve Do's after Christmas

12/11/09

Once the season of goodwill is over, how will you foster goodwill towards your company? Mark Gibbs has Twelve Do's that'll do it.

Keeping us safe the Sprint way

12/04/09

Mark Gibbs wonders about why we don't want to be monitored yet when we are monitored we don't care too much.

Patent trolls, Machiavelli's descendents

11/23/09

Mark Gibbs thinks he knows what Machiavelli's descendents do for a living … they've become patent trolls.

The Sixth Annual Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards

11/16/09

Once again, the spotlight is on those who would make things just that little bit crappier for everyone in pursuit of some agenda only a crazy person would want.

The Craziness Pandemic, Part II

11/06/09

Last week I began documenting the pandemic of craziness that is sweeping the globe. This week, our attention turns to the United States where the net neutrality furor continues unabated with a huge outbreak of craziness being added to the mix.

The Craziness Pandemic, Part I

10/30/09

Gibbs has spotted a new pandemic sweeping the globe and there's no swine or birds involved; this one is an outbreak of craziness and the Japanese airline ANA appears to have had a bad case of it …

Windows 7 launch parties: Are we all mad?

10/21/09

Gibbs is astounded by Microsoft's campaign to get people to hold Windows 7 launch parties globally … a ploy that seems to have worked ridiculously well assuming that it's real … he also wonders about our collective sanity and coolness quotient.

Not one of my better days

10/19/09

Gibbs started on what he thought was going to be a simple job and most of a day later, he's ready to reprogram his computer with an axe

Bloggers beware: the FTC is watching

10/09/09

Mark Gibbs discusses the Federal Trade Commission's new rules on advertising that, for the first time, encompasses new media, and should you fail to disclose if you're being paid to post, makes you liable for big bucks.

Network neutrality: Doing the right things

10/01/09

Gibbs argues that the Internet is bigger than business and therefore needs to be seen as a core issue to our culture which means that network neutrality is needed if we are to collectively prosper.

Watching the detectives bowl

09/28/09

Gibbs follows on from last week's column on surveillance with a tale of cops caught on video in a house search, the state of video surveillance in the UK, and wonders if our operating systems might be rigged …

Surveilled to death

09/21/09

Gibbs ponders how much we're tracked and how much we give away and wonders what the long-term outcome will be; a society of closed lips and constrained behavior, a society economical with the truth, or will it just stay business a usual?

Dear Vendor …

09/14/09

Mark Gibbs writes an open letter to all vendors who don't get it and explains the errors of their ways and what they need to do if they want to get our business. Will any of them pay attention?

Federal IT strategy, hope over reality

09/07/09

Well, that ugly, ill-conceived bill from Senator Rockefeller, now called the "Cybersecurity Act of 2009", has reappeared and if it passes someone is going to get saddled with the job of making it happen. Who will be the lucky guy and can he succeed?

On excellence and best practices

08/24/09

Gibbs ponders excellence and with the help of a friend debunks best practices.

Suspicious activities and my grandmother

08/13/09

Mark Gibbs is suspicious about a lot of acronyms, to wit, ISE's NSIS that collects SARs that, at least in L.A., includes pictures or video footage "with no apparent esthetic value". His grandmother's words are brought to mind.

Cybersecurity: Curiouser and curiouser

08/10/09

Gibbs is an aficionado of Carrol's Alice and finds a curious parallel between the administration's cybersecurity office and believing six impossible things.

DRM's Slow Death. Sorta

07/31/09

Mark Gibbs ponders the slow death spiral of digital rights management as the RIAA almost admits that DRM is obsolete, as Amazon violates its terms of service and apologizes, as lawyers attempt to redefine what it means to buy digital content, and how the Associated Press has just discovered DRM.

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