Google's new "Interest Based Advertising" (IBA) program represents the company's first foray into what is generally called "Online Behavioral Advertising" (OBA): In order to deliver more relevant advertising, Google will begin tailoring ads delivered through AdSense on the Google Content Network (GC...

Caroline Kennedy has abruptly dropped her bid for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat.  Her father, of course, probably ties with Andrew Mellon and Ronald Reagan as one of the greatest supply-side tax-cutters of all time.  The economic boom JFK unleashed probably makes up for whatever damage—...

Just before the New Year, Mike Masnick reported: It's been well over five years since we first heard about a plan in Oregon to attach GPS devices to cars and tax drivers based on how much they drove and the idea hasn't become any better in the intervening years... but apparently it's still being pus...

Just before the New Year, Mike Masnick reported: It’s been well over five years since we first heard about a plan in Oregon to attach GPS devices to cars and tax drivers based on how much they drove and the idea hasn’t become any better in the intervening years… but apparently i...

This ongoing series has explored the increasing ability of consumers to "cut the cord" to traditional video distributors (cable, satellite, etc.) and instead receive a mix of "television" programming and other forms of video programming over the Internet.  As I've argued, this change not only me...

This  ongoing series has explored the increasing ability of consumers to ”cut the cord” to traditional video distributors (cable, satellite, etc.) and instead receive a mix of “television” programming and other forms of video programming over the Internet.  As I’ve ...

Jerry Yang’s departure as Yahoo! CEO opens the door to a renewed bid by Microsoft to buy Yahoo!’s search business (or Yahoo! itself).  Such a merger could produce a significantly stronger challenger to Google in the search market.  With this possibility in mind, the WSJ just ran a fas...

The NYT reports that Google has recently disclosed in an SEC filing that it had 1 million advertisers as of 2007.  Some analysts suggest that Google’s growing scale will lead to higher ad prices: Ben Schachter, an analyst with UBS, said he expects the current number is likely to be between 1....

PFF’s President  Ken Ferree wrote a great piece over on the PFF blog calling for Obama to stay the course on the DTV transition.  Always quick with the bon mot, Ken makes particularly apt use of a very funny anecdote from David Hackett Fischer’s excellent new biography of Samuel Cham...

I intended to post this piece back in December but it never went live because of a technical glitch. Ken Ferree and I just filed an amicus brief with the D.C. Circuit in what could be among the most important First Amendment cases involving economic regulation in years: Comcast's challenge to the FC...