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The Manhattan apartment rental market is unique, as anyone who has experienced it will tell you. The very low vacancy rate (high demand) allows for behavior that other markets don’t bear. The first is the idea of a broker for … Continue reading →

I was at the PIPA/SOPA protest in front of the offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand today. All fine and good, but why should the senators care? The immediate answer is, they won’t…but bear with me. These senators, like others, … Continue reading →

Having learned that both the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO support SOPA, it’s becoming clearer to me just how much of our economy is based on extracting rents from friction. Both big business and big labor depend on it. … Continue reading →

Every time I get out of NYC, I am reminded at what we put up with to live here. It’s a known trope: we deal with sh*t that suburbanites couldn’t imagine, in exchange for being around amazing people (and companies, … Continue reading →

I agree with Clay Johnson that the our industry’s ignorance of Congress might be greater than Congress’ ignorance of the Internet. He comes to the conclusion that we need to lobby more. I disagree. Throwing money down the lobby hole … Continue reading →

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Dave Winer laments that mobile apps are not universally addressable via a locator like a URL. Actually, they are, it’s just underexploited. For example, this little radio app allows me to deep-link specific radio stations as tiles on my (Win Phone … Continue reading →

The Wall Street Journal restricts access to some stories – as when it will show you the first paragraph or two as a “Subscribe Content Preview”. There’s an easy way to get around this if you want the whole story. … Continue reading →

It’s easy to see the web as sets of advances that come in waves. The first was its emergence as a consumer (and corporate) phenomenon, starting with Netscape and continuing through Internet Explorer 6 (which, we often forget, was the … Continue reading →

In recent comments on Hacker News, I suggested, with some snark, that the definition of net neutrality is slippery and ad-hoc, and therefore exploitable. I was promptly voted down. In this case, an ISP in Canada has introduced data caps … Continue reading →