Stories I Found Of Interest (weekly)

• Alec Baldwin: Good-bye, Public Life -- Vulture

  • I think America’s more fucked up now than it’s ever been. People are angry that in the game of musical chairs that is the U.S. economy, there are less seats at the table when the music stops. And at every recession, the music is stopping.

• Obama advisers want to "crowdsource" patents, call again for new law | Ars Technica

  • what has happened in the arena of patent policy since then and announced new initiatives going forward—including one to "crowdsource" the review of patents
  • The Innovation Act, which includes fee-shifting and customer protection measures for patent lawsuits, has passed the House and is being debated in the Senate.

• Tech's New Feeding Frenzy - NYTimes.com

  • by valuing the number of users above revenue, Facebook is inflating another dot-com bubble.
  • In WhatsApp, Facebook sees not a trove of patents or a lucrative advertising model but the future of communications — mobile, cross-platform, cheap and international. I

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.