Readings Weeks of Nov 29th and Dec 6th, 2010
Web Developers Get Real (Time) - Technology Review
Who owns Wikipedia?
Algorithms Can't Pick College Football Champions or Predict Economies
Gates: Wikileaks Consequences for U.S. foreign policy? I think fairly modest.
Why Gawker is moving beyond th...
Personal Data Ecosystem podcasts
Kaliya Hamlin and Aldo Castañeda have posted their first six podcasts about the emerging personal data ecosystem. If you want to watch this space, it’s a great way to do it.
Finally, a truthful privacy policy
For anyone who’ been dealing with Internet privacy, Dan Tynan’s The First Truly Honest Privacy Policy is a scream.
(Don’t tell anyone, but it’s much closer to the real truth than anyone really wants to admit.)
FreedomLeaks
We’ll start with four essential posts on the Wikileaks matter. First is Iran and the Bomb, by Hedrik Hertzberg, It’s this week’s Talk of the Town in The New Yorker. Here’s the pull quote: Perhaps the two biggest secrets that the WikiLeaks leaks leaked are that the private face of American foreign policy looks pretty much...
Podcast: Ylian Saint-Hilaire on MeshCentral
This week Scott and I spoke with Ylian Saint-Hilaire of Intel about his MeshCentral project. While we were talking I just kept thinking how cool it would be to use Kynetx react to the events this system creates. I didn't indulge myself however, tha...
Gov2.0 and Facebook ‘Like’ Buttons
Government departments need informed guidelines limiting the use of technologies that clearly endanger the privacy of citizens.
I hate it when the Sun shoots out plasma trails which are over 400k miles long
From the Huffington Post:
Starting a High Tech Business: Move As a Pack
I'm the founder and CTO of Kynetx. This seriesof articles relates my discoveries and feelings about starting a high-tech business. This is the twenty-eighth installment. You may find my efforts instructive. Or you may know a better way---if so, pl...
What does cognitive science say about privacy and the Net?
Here’s what one dictionary says: World English Dictionary privacy (ˈpraɪvəsɪ, ˈprɪvəsɪ) — n 1. the condition of being private or withdrawn; seclusion 2. the condition of being secret; secrecy 3. philosophy the condition of being necessarily restricted to a single person Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition 2009 © William Collins Sons...
Please Vote Now in the OpenID Board Election
The election for community (individual) OpenID board members is under way at https://openid.net/foundation/members/elections/7. I encourage all of you to vote now. (Don’t wait until the morning of Wednesday, December 15th!) If you’re not already an OIDF member, you can join for USD $25 at https://openid.net/foundation/members/registration and participate in the election. I’m running for the board...
Put your game face on
Well, to continue with the World of Warcraft (WoW) theme, let's looks at what Blizzard actually tried to do: they decided to introduce a "RealID" system (not to be confused with the US government's "RealID" system because the WoW system was intended to be secure). the RealID system also identifies you by your...
Blogging in the 2nd week of Dec. ‘10
20 things I learned about browsers and the web
200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes
Woz’s history of the computer industry
Creating a painting which is based upon the 3 most popular search terms for painting buyers on Ebay.
Microsoft’s journ...
