Author Archives: Christopher
Review: The Long Tail (Revised and Updated)
I’m in the middle of a massive reading streak for my comprehensive exams, but I’m trying to sneak in some personal reading at the same time. The first book in that ‘extra’ reading is Anderson’s “The Long Tail”, which focuses … Continue reading
Deep Packet Inspection: What Innovation Will ISPs Encourage?
All sorts of nasty things as said about ISPs that use Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). ISPs aren’t investing enough in their networks, they just want to punish early adopters of new technologies, they’re looking to deepen their regulatory powers capacities, … Continue reading
Deep Packet Inspection and the Discourses of Censorship and Regulation
In the current CRTC hearings over Canadian ISPs’ use of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to manage bandwidth, I see two ‘win situations’ for the dominant carriers: They can continue to throttle ‘problem’ applications in the future; The CRTC decides to … Continue reading
Economics of Authenticity on Twitter
I think that the generalization of all users as identical (e.g. all friend relationships on Facebook can be seen as equivalent to each other, in dollars and cents terms) is problematic and limits an accurate valuation of social networking environments. Continue reading
