Bruce Schneier: The Battle for Power on the Internet
The fantastic Bruce Schneier gave an excellent talk at TEDxCambridge: The Battle for Power on the Internet: In it, he explains in his usual clear, easy-to-understand…
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How to see through the cloud, translated
Over on the Mozilla Webmaker site, James Bridle wrote a brilliant piece that explains in very simple terms how to get a better understanding of the web at…
ITU won’t control the internet
Today is a good day for the internet. “Failure to sign agreement at ITU conference stops governments having greater powers to control phone calls and data”, is…
Foo Session: The end of the world (or state, at least)
What seems like it started out as a joke by David Eaves turned into one of the most interesting (and hilarious) discussions I participated in at Foo Camp.…
Mankind’s knowledge isn’t in the network, it’s in our heads. Oh wait, no it isn’t.
In a fairly ridiculous comment on Handelsblatt.com, CDU (conservative) member of parliament Ansgar Heveling attacked not just the internet, but a whole system of thought. The networked society,…
Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea
In this recent TED talk, Clay Shirky makes a spot on, scary, fantastic argument why SOPA, PIPA and their brethren bills are so terribly damaging. Plus, he puts…
Google, the FTC and Germany: Public vs Private Media
There’s a war going on, and it’s not pretty. The old conflict between publicly funded and private media, and the fight about who regulates the whole sphere. Of…