The Open Market Blog

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 04/25/2008

Last week a scad of stories from Reuters to News.com covered the growing push for a “Do Not Track” registry similar to the…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 04/23/2008

Just as pink was the new black and The Backstreet Boys were the new New Kids on the Block, the FCC is now turning “Localism”…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 04/17/2008

The FCC is continuing its desperate search for a reason to exist. This year it's decided to assert its relevance by reengaging an issue that…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 04/02/2008

This week's C:\Spin (#197), CEI's tech policy newsletter, casts net neutrality in the appropriate light. Calling out proponents of neutrality for what they are--political…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/06/2008

I want to thank my fellow Tech Liberation Front contributor Tim Lee for pointing out that Open Market RSS feeds should feature full articles,…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/04/2008

Gary Gygax, the father of role-playing games, died today at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. As a fellow Wisconite and lover of video games–the…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/04/2008

Congressman Ed Markey (D-Mass) has introduced legislation aimed at ridding the cell phone world of the much criticized practicies of phone subsidies, long-term contracts, and…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 02/12/2008

The fight for Yahoo! continues as Microsoft stated yesterday that: Microsoft reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo!'s…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 02/11/2008

If you're interested in the marriage that might have been and could still be between Microsoft and Yahoo, check out my appearance on C-SPAN's weekly…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/25/2008

Thanks to Google, I am now addicted to the game Rock Band. I don’t own the game, but I do alternate between playing the demo…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/24/2008

This Tuesday, CNet’s Anne Broache reported that FCC Commissioner Copps was NOT ready to support “new rules requiring wireless carriers to open…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/11/2008

Yesterday's Washington Post featured a great piece, "Human Dignity Also Needs to Be Preserved," from columnist Marc…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/04/2008

CEI’s general counsel Sam Kazman was quoted in the new edition of Freedom Forum’s First Amendment Calendar. If you’ve picked one up from Freedom Forum,…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/03/2008

Hans Bader, one of OpenMarket.org’s top bloggers, is now available in Spanish. The Atlantic-Pacific Alliance has translated Han’s recent post “Feds to Patients: Drop Dead…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/20/2007

Eliot Spitzer, 3rd worst state attorney general in 2006 according to a CEI report by Hans Bader, is showing just how incompetent he can…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/14/2007

Google Policy Fellows will have the opportunity to work at public interest organizations at the forefront of debates on broadband and access policy, content regulation,…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/14/2007

During the course of promoting the recent paper I co-wrote with Eli Lehrer, I have come across the same question/complaint from gamers: Why have two…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/13/2007

This week, CEI published a study written by me and Eli Lehrer on entertainment ratings. The paper covers six forms of media: movies,…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/10/2007

I blogged about Greenpeace’s quarterly report on Green-Tech last week, noting that the way they display their data is manipulative, but…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/04/2007

I don’t know the ins and outs of Wikipedian politics, but according to The Register, trouble is brewing at Jimmy Wales’s social knowledge project.

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/04/2007

Greenpeace has released the latest edition of its quarterly Guide to Greener Electronics. While I haven’t read the study in full and I don’t…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 11/16/2007

The Evansville Courier brings us a story that should be disheartening to libertarians and anyone who respects the right to own private property. The…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 10/09/2007

On a note related to Jerry Brito’s post on “L’iPhone” at TechLiberation.com today, I’d like to point out Thomas Hazlett’s “How the…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/27/2007

Minor abuses at the FCC, such as the one mentioned in my last post, warrant at least investigating how the FCC assesses fines, if not…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/27/2007

Seems as though the FCC can’t get enough fining done within the bounds of its legal fining regime and is now fining arbitrary 3rd…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/27/2007

GlobalWarming.org was relaunched two weeks ago by CEI and has enjoyed hundreds of thousands of views since.  I want to thank those who have…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/26/2007

Playspan dubs itself “The Game Industry’s First Publisher-Sponsored In-Game Commerce Network.” What does that mean? To put it more simply, welcome to Wall Street…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/24/2007

I saw In the Shadow of the Moon, Ron Howard’s new documentary about the Apollo program, yesterday evening and have done some looking into…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/23/2007

Check out this great cartoon about the virtues of capitalism. Turns out that at one point Americans (or at least American animators) knew that…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/21/2007

Despite ICANN’s protests, the .su top-level domain remains for sale. That’s right you can still get a Soviet Union top-level domain and now the…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/20/2007

USA Today reports that Municipal Wi-Fi plans across the nation continue to collapse under the pressure of economic reality. Schemes such as those proposed…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/20/2007

Following the EU Court of First Instance decision in the Microsoft antitrust appeal I appeared on Mark Carbonaro’s radio program on 1460 KION in Monterey,…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/19/2007

As the US and EU regulators bear down on Google we’re already seeing changes in the marketplace where the Googlers currently have the lead. Yahoo!…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 09/13/2007

Not the freshest news in the world, but I found it interesting when I discovered today that that Ask.com offers a service called AskEraser…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 08/28/2007

Is it even possible for companies to strike exclusive deals when teams of nerds across the country have been at work on hacking the iPhone…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 08/24/2007

I recently attended the PFF Aspen Summitt which served to both educate and inspire me, so expect a flurry of blog posts over the next…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 04/12/2007

Business gets a bad rap in America, but I didn't know how bad that rap was until I saw quantified and laid out in easy…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/22/2007

One of Bureaucrash’s latest project in defense of liberty was recently featured on NPR’s Day to Day. In the link, crashers are seen outside…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/19/2007

“Al’s Big Adventure,” appearing today in NRO’s Planet Gore blog, features CEI’s Chris Horner giving Congress some pointers about Mr. Gore’s upcoming testimony.

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/15/2007

Sirius and XM are both losing cash, fast. So, they’ve proposed a merger to cut costs, but that has to be endorsed by regulators. That’s…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/14/2007

The Internet is abuzz with worry about the possible negative implications of the merger of AT&T and BellSouth. One of the biggest fears is that…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/13/2007

The Connecticut legislature is considering a bill that would require social networking sites, such as MySpace or Facebook, to verify the age of users of…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/06/2007

Wired Blogs reports that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling which found that Ziinet.com and 700law.com, two sites offering…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/25/2007

At the DC premiere of Mine Your Own Business yesterday evening, I spoke with protesters who insisted that the 96% of the citizens of…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 01/23/2007

The Progressive Majority today reports that Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth has been banned by the The Federal Way School District in Washington…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 12/19/2006

The Charleston Daily Mail editorial page recently featured “Rockefeller is Out of Line” a critique of the Senator’s “intemperate attempt to squelch debate.” Sen.