I’m excited to report that Techdirt has asked me to be an occasional contributor to their blog as part of the Techdirt Insight Community. In my first contribution, I express skepticism about Japan’s plan to create a Google-killer using government subsidies. I assume that most TLF readers are already reading Techdirt, but in case you’re not, now’s the time to add it to your feed reader!
About Tim Lee
Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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