Clik here to view.
Should you deactivate your Facebook Account when looking for a job?
Many people spend a lot of time on Facebook, and in many ways, spending time on Facebook is a great social interchange between friends, family, and people you know. What is well known is that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Digg needs Transparency not a new Candy Coating
That is great that Digg wants to redesign their web site and do cool stuff like making it more social. The problem with Digg is not that it is a bad system technologically; it is that it is impossible...
View ArticleClik here to view.
John Edwards and Tiger Woods in the Boardroom
John Edwards and Tiger Woods. Both famous, powerful men who projected one public image while living a completely different life in private. Both certainly deserve our scorn for their behavior. But the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Our future will be more chaotic than dystopian
We need much better logic in terms of how we handle censorship and the influence that platforms have to change how censorship is enforced. There has always been information that people did not want...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Social Media as Storytelling
The more I look at social media, the more it reminds me of storytelling. A person can be telling stories around a camp fire with a small audience, or telling stories around the world in mass releases...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jesse Stay hits the Copyright Wall
Jesse Stay is one of the better people to follow on the internet and his writing is always interesting to read, plus he also owns Social Too and has written two books as well. Jesse is no stranger to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Amazon sees renewed pressure to collect State Sales Tax
Amazon and other online retailers like EBay might not be able to dodge the tax collection business for much longer as States try increasingly to find new areas of revenue. Over the last couple of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who controls what happens in your browser
Interesting tidbit over at Techdirt this morning about a Grease Monkey script called Fluff Busting Purity formerly known as Facebook Purity. While the Techdirt article is good, there are some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)
“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. university in math or science” (Thomas Friedman) I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Old media, new media and presentation skills changing the face of British...
A complex equation of old media influence, new media influence, and plain old fashioned presentation skills are in the process of changing British Politics forever. I don’t usually get in to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I think we forgot something on the way to the future
Our future was supposed to be bright and shiny. I think we messed up somewhere along the line. I do not normally write about politics, and I try to keep this blog generally upbeat. While I am busy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Microsoft Should Donate PowerPoint to the Taliban
I don’t pretend to be a military strategist, but I’ve figured out how to win the war in Afghanistan. OK, not on my own – The New York Times helped, with an article titled: We Have Met the Enemy and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spying on Students is Not a Crime. Neither is Political Corruption.
<quick rant> Remember the school district that spied on students (and their families) in their home, using remotely controlled laptop cameras? The Feds found it was OK…or at least not criminal....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Come On Silicon Valley, We Can Provide a Better Rx for Jobs!
Fortune magazine has an article running that Techmemed about some advice Barrack Obama is getting about jobs from Silicon Valley Heavyweights like Kleiner VC John Doerr and Facebook COO Sheryl...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From Arab Spring to UK Summer putting the brakes on Social Networking
First World meets Social Media and attempts to curtail it much like their third world counterparts – too late the cat is so far out of the bag we can’t even catch a whiff of what things were like...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Does Twitter Censor hashtags?
There is an interesting hash tag for #occupywallstreet this morning with a protest going on in New York City about the crimes of banks and the rest of wall street. So far estimates are that there are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why SOPA is going to be unenforceable
I would lay odds that SOPA is going to pass, and pass by a majority in the house and senate; it is debatable if the president will sign it. If you have been involved in Bittorrent or P2P systems for a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Canada is mulling over the idea that customers pay for their own phone...
Canadian Bill C-30 proposes a tax on people purchasing internet and phone services so that the cost of paying for surveillance equipment or responding to Law Enforcement lookups will not burden either...
View ArticleClik here to view.
22 USC 1461 sec 501 Why the proposed changes could be awesome
The US Government wants to modify 22 USC 1461 sec 501 so that they can put propaganda on the internet. There is a risk of people being exposed to said propaganda, but wouldn’t you really like to know...
View ArticleClik here to view.
We really all thought it was Google, only to find out it was the person’s...
We really all thought it was Google, only to find out it was the person’s employer Yesterday the web site Medium posted that they got a surprise visit from the Joint Terrorism Task Force to talk about...
View Article
