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Dodd Calls for Hollywood and Silicon Valley to Meet I really hope Chris Dodd does what he says and sits down with the tech industry. And I really hope that this statement does not indicate that Chris Dodd and the rest of those backing PIPA and SOPA think that they would have been more successful [...]

How in the world is Apple going to keep textbooks up-to-date and not lose your highlighting and note positions? Did Apple come up with some magical new way of marking the beginning and end of the highlight area? The obvious way is to store the start character position and length (or end character position). But [...]

The President’s Challenge Interesting perspective on SOPA and PIPA that echoed my thoughts almost exactly (plus it is well-written and tells a great joke): Take the truck, the boat, the helicopter, that we’ve sent you. Don’t wait for the time machine, because we’re never going to invent something that returns you to 1965 when copying [...]

Interesting education/textbook presentation from Apple today. I personally am very excited and think Apple is targeting at least one big thing — access and availability of curriculum — from my education issues list. That one alone affects a number of my bullet points. But it is important to point out that technology can’t solve every [...]

Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA Tim O’Reilly in an interview with Gigaom’s Colleen Taylor: I talked with Nancy Pelosi about SOPA the other day, and she said that the experience with piracy is different for people in the movie industry. Maybe — I’m not a movie producer. But I do know that right now the [...]