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Prodigeek
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Prodigeek mixes the smarts of a nerd with the skills of a geek to create a warped blog experience of pop culture and technology. Prodigeek takes a closer look at geek culture and its place in the real and web world.
Recent Posts
Music labels infringing musician’s copyrights, provide convenient list
Music labels (and copyright maximists) often claim they need copyright to benefit the musicians, but their actions more often contradict that. Unlike the U.S., Canada replaced its compulsory license system (where anyone can pay a set amount to use a ...
Holiday and working blogging blues
Yup, I’ve been slacking on my blogging over these past few weeks. Between holiday traveling and some tough weeks at work (even the auction business gets into the holiday spirit), I’ve been finding it tough to keep to a schedule. I’m still worki...
Murdoch looking into blocking Google from giving him free traffic
Rupert Murdoch, after a short time of seemed like he understood the internet was a new and exciting tool, has since changed his medication and now sees it as the evil of all evils. He has been pushing, vocally, not through action, reinstating paywall...
Evidence mounting that file-sharing and movies can live happily together
…but movie companies certainly don’t see that. Paramount Pictures released its study of the five million IP addresses it tracked who downloaded camcorded copies of Star Trek. Writing to the FCC, Paramount says: Just five years ago, one had to b...
How Monticello, Minn got fast and cheap internet before most of the U.S.
While many countries continue to roll out faster and cheaper broadband, the U.S. remains locked in simply how to define broadband. For all our claims of technological superiority, our country is falling behind. So how did Monticello, Minn, a town o...
One business dying does not end an industry
CDs are dying, but the music industry is growing. Newspapers are dying, but journalism is thriving. DVD sales are dropping, but movie attendance is rising. Yet for all this, article after article says the music, news, and movie industry is dead or dy...

