Recently I’ve heard more and more complaints of mobile spam, including NY Times David Pogue’s complaint about Verizon’s spam, and it got me thinking how ineffective CAN SPAM law has been –it is ILLEGAL to spam mobile devices without explicit customer consent (OPT-IN). I have not seen much evidence of decline in email Spam since [...]

NY Times David Pogue’s review of the Flip continues to attract a lot of reaction. See the follow up post ‘Why There Aren’t more Flips“. Funny how this little thing can create some much reaction. It’s premise is SIMPLICITY (even though sometimes it fails to deliver on that). This principle simplicity seems to the key [...]

For my Digital Media Law class, I did my research on the state of mobile marketing and the key legal issues confronting this space.

I went to a lecture with Ellen Lupton at PNCA in Portland (great space, by the way). Lupton is a star designer and she was quite entertaining to listen to. Besides some funny insights on the perils of the design of women bras, toasters and a not-so-convincing case for luggage sans wheels, Lupton focused her [...]