Tag Archives: Digital Ownership

By “digital ownership,” I am generally referring to owning your data or owning digital goods that you purportedly “buy” from an “online store.”

Social webs of personal websites

An essay which describes personal blogs as the soul of the web leads me to consider personal blogs as the centerpiece of a social web.

My 2007 photo of a rose at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Reviewing a tool for cross-device syncing contacts, calendars, tasks, and feeds locally with Syncthing instead of a central server or service.

When you purchase a digital ebook in one format only to have Amazon replace it with an inferior format.

A post on the meaning of the “BUY” button in the e-book context.

On the coexistence of RSS and Atom feeds and microformats.

Amazon’s “buy” button is not always what it seems to be.

Stadia’s demise provides a lesson about the value of owning your media.

When buyers are renters, a society of (digital) renters.

An essay on the interesting subject of Steam’s DRM-free games.

I hope Nintendo does not switch from its cartridge-first distribution strategy for new games.