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A few weeks ago, I asked for some help on twitter to pick a topic for an argument I was supposed to construct in the form of an essay for my Analyitical Skills course at SMU. The option was between arguing against DRM or for Net Neutrality. Because DRM was a lot easier to understand and argue against, I chose DRM.

I just got my essay back and I actually did relatively well for it (because, frankly, DRM is so obviously silly ) and thought I’d share it here. Feel free to critic it, and discuss it. In fact, I thought about it (because I think about this), and there might actually be some cases for DRM. What do you think?

Content providers should abolish digital rights management

There has been one form of technology that I have always been having trouble understanding its existence, and that is digital rights management, or DRM. DRM is a form of copyright protection that content makers of digital content such as digital audio, digital films, electronic books and nowadays, even computer games, have that impose limitations on its use in hopes to prevent piracy. Digital audio with DRM, for example, would require special hardware and software that recognizes it in order to play. Even within the recognized hardware and software, there is a limitation on the number of instances it can be played on. DRM, however, does not achieve any of its goals, and instead causes a lot of problems for the very consumer that wants to use the content legitimately. Therefore, content providers should abolish DRM. Read more

I came across this video on Gizmodo where Steve Jobs was talking to his employees shortly after he returned, and it really spoke to me. The phrase that really inspired me was this:

“Apple at the core, its core value, is that we believe that people with passion can change the world for the better.”

That’s one of the things I hope Tech65.org will one day show people, that if you are passionate enough about something, you can change the world for the better.

So discover what you’re passionate about, because Love does indeed make the world go round. If you can harness your love for something, you can move the world, and I believe that we are all planted with unique giftings and desires so that we can play a part in making the world a better place in every unique way.

Shalom.

One thing I’ve always wanted to do was to be able to share cool sightings of technology in Singapore with people. Twitpic really helped but then the photos would not be in one single location and attached only to a single tweet. Now I’m trying posterous along with the iPhone app!

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This is my social graph, generated using Nexus on Facebook. I decided to try it out after reading Kevin’s post about how relationships on the internet tend to be clustered more by geography than shared interests, but I realised it was different for me. Mine tend to be clustered by my different “lives” or associations. I guess that’s probably due to the fact that unlike Kevin, most of my friends are in Singapore.

What does your social graph look like?