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Characteristics of the Monied "Like" Button http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2013/12/characteristics... One-Click Micropayment Capability for Volume Solicitations and Multiple …

An (e.g.) 1/2 cent payment connected to the current Like button (whether it was credited to the likee or something else ) would stop the Facebook Fraud problem by making them non-v…

If you could BUY a download or certain number of plays of the song for a nickel or a few cents (one-click and without transaction costs making it impractical)... Would you? patent …

Patents are important protections designed to protect the hard work of individuals from the onslaught of more powerful forces... I've got one myself (a utility patent) THIS IS NOT …

If Blodget really bilked money from widows and orphans (and I don't doubt it) how come he's not running a bank? Seems like the perfect item for the resume. Maybe he's just pissed-o…

It really is all just security theater... keeping the peanut gallery scared, entertained... and at the same time self-satisfied about their unearned 'exceptionalism'... BTW, has it…

RE "The Internet Might Kill Us All" Good read, good points, reasonable possibilities... but a bit hyperbolic. Looking on the bright side... Scenarios depicted could end in massive …

Check the following totally misleading article put out by the Corporate front "Ameripac": FCC: Information Superhighway Traffic Cops http://conservativeactionalerts.com/blog_post/s…

The benefits of Facebook marketing for the song and artists is a good question... lots of interesting answers here. But how about Facebook's end? Doesn't seem to me they were going…

The Internet is a landscape... not a business. Speech, association, politics, mutual assistance (charity), etc... are transactions between humans that pre-date the commercial trans…

There are points worth considering on both sides regarding file sharing and copyright. However this censorship action is being taken in the name of 'homeland security'... I find th…

Could be good idea! I'll try to get around to looking into it tomorrow...

There must be many factors that go into 'what makes a good entrepreneur'... and many fallacies as well. I'm 60. My background is neither in entrepreneurship, business nor computer …

Here's a vote for David Brin's novel "Earth"... full of amazingly prescient ideas regarding the social effects of communication technology, transparency... and especially his Helve…

Nope, not inaccurate at all. We're also 'excreters', 'respirators' and metabolizers generally. The document discussed here and the word 'citizen' refer to a conscious sense of resp…

On a similar note: I'd like to see an effort to eliminate the word "consumers" from our leaders lexicons. Cows are consumers... Hogs are consumers... Consumers are commodities that…

The lesson here is how co-ordinated messaging (propaganda) can continually shape and re-shape broad cultural memes no matter how stupid the memes are. While in the case of diamonds…

Car insurance and home insurance are relatives of 'derivatives' but are much different than the "naked" derivatives and CDO Squared instruments (2nd generation derivatives naked or…

Our paranoid idiot government (or, more accurately, "our paranoid idiot government that believes we're also paranoid idiots just like them)... has given the idiot terrorists all th…

Satire for sure... But the link to PayPal is real enough! I wonder if they've taken in any money? And if so, did the people think they were supporting this nutty idea or supporting…

The individual in a tribe of hunter-gatherers has a very different concept of privacy. In his/her world everyone pretty much knows everyone else's 'business'. The whole concept of …