Striking editorial by murdered Sri Lankan journalist published posthumously.
News: People are suprised that the CIA is reading their public twits.
A extremely convoluted and almost impenetrable argument that, I think, argues that the OKCon crowd is not being clear enough about who the end users are. Might have made a good tweet.
Good for Zeynep publishing this. But I don't really see what the point is. The problem for democracy is that campaigning is about manipulating people to win votes, not about actually engaging in issues. The mass media approaches to this are not particularly less scary to me, even if they are not as effective as new more data-driven approaches.
Maybe the Somerville green line isn't happening. :(
“We need boots on the ground,†said Joel Kelsey, a Consumers Union policy analyst. Mr. Kelsey advocated armies of people, from firefighters to television industry personnel, going into homes and setting up converter boxes for consumers.
Nice write-up of a good talk by Bollier that I saw at Berkman.
Google needs to blow away half of the (awesome) roof garden so that they can spend a cool $2m so that their employees don't need to walk outside in order to get to the cafeteria.
"(n)Code Solutions, a subsidiary of GNFC, produces digital certificates for the Government of India (including the digital Aadhaar card for over 1 billion Indians). The solution was the result of a partnership with Entrust."
