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!
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.