Mere minutes after posting last week's entry, my computer met its long-awaited death. Since this left free-time and internet-time largely incongrous, I wasn't able to keep up on the reading that usually fuels this blog. So, I won't be writing anything much for now; expect a full entry next week.

I thought about addressing last week's dust-up at Digg over the HD-DVD codes, but the story is starting to wear thin and has already seen its share of hype. The incident does bring questions of public/private space to the forefront: to what extent do the users indeed have "control" over the service? To what extent can Digg determine the way in which both the users and the litigators interact with service? And so on.

To a large extent this seemed like a case of an "I'm Spartacus" style protest in the intellectual property arena, making it ineffectual to pursue significant legal action. In effect we're seeing this with peer-to-peer file sharing, but that debate has become muddled through a combination of factors over the years.