Monthly Archives: June 2011

In the conclusion of my interview with James Bessen we talk about the difficulty of measuring software-driven economic growth, a topic I’ve written about before. Timothy B. Lee: How should we think about the value that consumers get from the … Continue reading →

One of my favorite scholars is James Bessen, a lecturer at Boston University and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center. A Harvard graduate, he founded a company that created one of the first desktop publishing systems and helped revolutionize the … Continue reading →

Will Wilkinson couldn’t be more right about this: I would argue that at least half of America’s military spending provides no benefit whatsoever to Americans outside the military-industrial welfare racket. But the other half may be doing some pretty important … Continue reading →

On Wednesday, I argued that collective action problems will delay the transition to IPv6 for many years, and possibly forever. The obvious response is that the world doesn’t have a choice. The majority of the world’s population isn’t yet on … Continue reading →

Today is World IPv6 Day. That’s the day a number of Internet heavyweights are testing out their readiness for the next version of IP, the networking protocol that serves as the foundation for the Internet. The current version of the … Continue reading →

A few people asked if there’s an RSS feed available for my Ars Technica articles. The answer from Ars seems to be no, but Dara Lind has kindly created one using Yahoo! Pipes. She’s also got created an an all-Tim … Continue reading →

Way back in November I wrote about the connection between Apple’s beautiful user interfaces and its top-down corporate culture. At the end of that post, I promised to do a follow-up post focusing on Google’s corporate culture. That post has … Continue reading →

For the last 13 years, I’ve been using .edu email addresses. I like running a desktop email client, and although GMail now offers IMAP service, I’ve been trying to minimize my Google exposure. Universities seemed like an innocuous party with … Continue reading →

I was fortunate to have three of today’s smartest libertarian tech policy scholars respond to Thursday’s post about spectrum policy. I was particularly interested in Adam Thierer’s thoughtful response: In this case, the net result of your advocacy for a … Continue reading →

I’ve been following the ongoing debate over the AT&T/T-Mobile merger with interest. As regular readers have probably guessed, I have a lot of sympathy for the arguments of merger opponents. Going from four national wireless carriers would represent a significant … Continue reading →