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“Big Surprise: The World has More Best Buy Stores than it Needs,” Time, March 29, 2012. Techland’s Harry McCracken reconsiders Larry’s original Best Buy post in light of the company’s disappointing 2011 results. |
Comcast XBox/Marketplace
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“How Comcast is Taking Advantage of the Schminternet,” Marketplace Tech Report, March 29, 2012. Larry spoke with Marketplace’s John Moe about misplaced claims that Comcast’s new service allowing a customer’s XBox to replace a set-top box doesn’t come close to violating the FCC’s “net neutrality” rules, in letter or in spirit. |
E-personation/Gale
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“Issues that Concern You: Cyberbullying,” Greenhaven Press, March 31, 2012. Larry’s article on California’s new “e-personation” law was reprinted in this collection of essays aimed at young adult readers. Larry argued that the law was unnecessary and full of unintended errors and loopholes. |
BBY/Daily Finance
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“Five Reasons Best Buy Stockholders Should Dread Thursday,” AOL Daily Finance, March 27, 2012. AOL’s Daily Finance cited Larry’s Forbes articles as one of the leading sources of negative pressure on Best Buy as the company headed for its fourth quarter earnings report. |
Sunset/Forbes
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“Sunsetting Technology Regulation: Applying Moore’s Law to Washington,” Forbes, March 25, 2012. Writing for Forbes, Mercatus Center’s Adam Thierer dusts off his copy of “The Laws of Disruption” to argue that technology-specific regulations should be revisited or dropped every 12-18 months. |
Coase/CNET
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“Property Rights for Spectrum Make More Sense all the Time,” CNET News.com, March 22, 2012. Larry’s controversial article on CNET dusts off Nobel prizewinning economist Ronald Coases’s 1959 essay on the FCC and argues that now, more than ever, the agency’s command-and-control licensing regime for radio frequencies must go. Coase, as usual, was right all along. |
