Miscellaneous stuff going on in my life.
Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal: We’ve Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers. We need a different name for government jobs and private sector jobs. They shouldn’t be equivalently considered as “jobs”. Creating private sector jobs is substantially more important to the growth of our economy. Politicians often lump them together when they [...]
Read more →Here’s a video of me in the Qualcomm booth at Mobile World Congress 2011, Barcelona, Spain.
Read more →I spend a lot of time looking at copyright law and a few other areas related to digital media but sadly, I am not an attorney. However, there is a William Frantz, Esquire located in Murrieta, not too far from where I live. Apparently he prefers to use his middle name, “Mike” but don’t hold [...]
Read more →William Frantz Elementary School gathered a little more fame recently. It turns out that Pulitzer Prize winning author, Robert Coles attended William Frantz in 1960 when Ruby Bridges ended segregation. Coles writes about that day in a new book called Handing One Another Along published today, August 31.
Read more →It doesn’t come up often, but sometime people want to send me encrypted messages. If you are one of those then you’ll need to download the PGP public key for William Frantz. My PGP fingerprint is DF5B 050E DC37 434C 1CCB A06F 08F3 7C21 2C24 542F. If you exchange public keys with me or anyone [...]
Read more →This is a narrow but huge victory for consumer rights. Average consumers can now bypass CSS (rip a DVD) to create mashups of short clips without violating the DMCA. It’s unclear if this enables a new opportunity to provide circumvention tools (ripping software) to consumers. https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26
Read more →I found this great depiction of what a Trillion dollars would look like.
Read more →In a TechCruch interview lately, angel investor Ron Conway said The Web is more social. We share a lot more about ourselves, and our lives, online than we did yesterday. We will likely share more about ourselves tomorrow. I am communicating with my sister in Japan, my cousin in China, and my Mom’s first cousin [...]
Read more →Game 7 last night between the Detroit Red Wings and the Pheonix Coyotes was a boring blowout except for this one amazing goal by Vernon Fiddler. In a faceoff against Pavel Daytsuk, just to the right of Howard, Fiddler manages to smack the puck right into the net before even a second ticks off the [...]
Read more →While stumbling around the ‘net, I found this picture of myself on Business Week’s website. It is labeled William Frantz and associated with my comments about the iPhone 3G. Obviously its an old story and the picture is even older. This was taken in 2003 on St. Martin. I was standing in front of a [...]
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