Author: Hanson Hosein

  • You just happen to hit a red light at that busy intersection.  The person standing at the corner catches your eye.  She picks up a piece of cardboard, holding it in your direction. “Unemployed.  Homeless.  Hungry.  Please help.  I’ll take anything.” What should you think?  You know that that you’ve heard that it’s probably best…

  • Here’s what I wrote in the comment thread of a cross posting of my Future of Free to the MCDM’s Flip The Media blog: [W]e should not expect everything to be free. We’ve gotten used to companies “experimenting” with the internet, trying to use the old advertising model to attract eyeballs to free content. But…

  • I wasn’t too concerned about missing the Opening Ceremonies from the Vancouver Winter Olympics, as I figured I could catch it online afterward.  NBC was keen to showcase its cool new Silverlight plug-in by streaming a considerable amount of the Beijing games in 2008. But when I tried to watch Part 1 of the Opening…