A few years back I came across a very interesting article by Phil Agre , Associate Professor of Information Studies at UCLA. I liked that article so much that I kept in my mail box for about 6 years until I discovered it a few days ago.
He talked about a very interesting anti establishment approach [...]

If you are wondering what is the McDonald’s connection with web applications, let me clarify that this is not about the offerings. I intend to discuss the kinds of experiences a brand, either emerging or long established, promise to offer to the customer or the user. McDonald’s is more a case in [...]

Despite many regulatory and institutional crackdown, Intellectual Properties often do not hold fort in the mass markets of the developing world. Products that have been designed with millions of dollars and countless man-hours of investments, get completely broken apart and fed into huge thriving ‘technology flea markets’ of the developing worlds like India and China. [...]