4 years ago I founded a small social media constancy. The idea was to manage the coming deluge of social media for businesses. Turned out to be a pretty good idea. At first many businesses didn’t believe that social media was going to be as important as it has become. What seemed completely obvious to [...]
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EU Commissioner Reveals He Will Simply Ignore Any Rejection Of ACTA By European Parliament
The battle for internet freedom continues on many fronts. The fight over ACTA in Europe has entered a new stage. (From Techdirt.com) “In other words, De Gucht won’t accept the idea that the European electorate, through their representatives in the European Parliament, might possibly want to reject something they were not allowed to know about [...]
Cat Videos, Google, and the Brain
HAL may have just been born at Google Labs, and he likes cats. (From Mashable.) “The “brain” was then sent to complete a task familiar to most humans: Find cat videos on YouTube. The 16,000-processor-strong neural network performed very well; it taught itself to recognize cats from some 10 million digital images found in YouTube [...]
I love Twitter, but geez, get a life folks. It went down for what 2 hours?
I’m not sure it was even down that long, yet I was just greated by this headline. “Twitter sets off jitters as site goes down” I do like the alliteration however. Click here for the story.
Can a decentralized electronic currency save the world’s economy? Maybe.
Bitcoin is one of the most important innovations of the past 5 years. It is open source banking and can be used as an alternative currency to the world’s traditional (and increasingly suspect) currencies. As the world economy grows increasingly unstable, bitcoin, in a small way may provide a pocket of resilience. Many people are [...]
Is that a bikini you’re wearing? Google/Apple use “spy planes” to see everywhere.
Privacy is disappearing at an ever more rapid pace and we’d be wise to take a moment and think about where we are going with all of this. Though Google and Apple are private companies this seems a clear violation of one’s expectation of privacy. Our rights end where those of others begin, and vice [...]
Use These Words in Social Media and You May be Flagged by Authorities
This is not surprising. I think most relatively social media savvy people have just assumed that using some words and phrases would put one on the government’s radar. It seems a natural progression. As we live more and more of our lives online it is natural that the law “enforcers” would follow humanity into cyberspace. [...]
No Backroom Deals to Regulate the Internet: Speak Out Against the Trans-Pacific Partnership!
As we have written before the war for the Internet will be and already has been, a long one. Governments and vested corporate interests (at least some corporate interests) see the massive flow of information the internet enables as a threat. These interests will continue to hammer away until they find a way to fundamentally [...]
How to Instruct 3000 College Students at the Same Time (Well)
This story comes from Hokie country, the hills of Blacksburg, home to Virginia Tech. In case you’ve missed it, higher education is in the midst of a revolution. From the Khan Academy to technology leaders such as the professor featured in the attached piece college is changing fast. One has to wonder how the immense [...]
