Communicating in a networked world
In early June, I was in a nice rainy East Coast US city for meetings dealing with particularly thorny issues related to ways the Internet experience is being killed off for regular folks—and for institutions (NGOs) that are promoting free speech and … [Continue reading]
Comeon‘ Apple — we all know “my phone has five bars and yet it drops calls all the time.” I call customer support on average once a month about this. They have even given me credits on my bill (not often). They have told me to download and use their … [Continue reading]
I love Joi Ito's advice about startups. Mostly he is talking about understanding risk. I particularly focused on one section just after 9 minutes into the video where he talks about how it’s folly to spend a lot of time building a business plan when … [Continue reading]
The iPad immediately led me to think about how tablet computing is portrayed in science fiction. TV and movies - because that’s the only place you actually saw little beasties like these 10 or 20 years ago.[1] Today they’re (literally today) all … [Continue reading]
Cory Doctorow posted a BoingBoing article about a recent National Security Letter requiring the Internet Archive to reveal user information to the FBI. In case you’re not familiar with this process, certain government agencies can issue these letters … [Continue reading]