I am data; politicians micro-target me to get elected

"To our presidential candidates, I am not Denny Wilkins, an individual human being: I am a set of data points, one of about 168 million sets of data points collected by both the Democratic and Republican national committees. They are interested in me only because I am an...

Will OpenSocial help Google reorganize into the first Galactic Empire?

"The big news in the tech world this week was Google's unveiling of OpenSocial, a set of programming tools that will enable members of multiple social networks to share files and information across different platforms. Noticeably absent from the alliance supporting...

Basic principles for building America's Internet future

"Sen. Dick Durbin has begun a several-night series of conversations with the blogosphere on how to build a set of principles for improving American broadband and Internet development. This is a watershed moment and a fantastic chance to make the people's voices heard on...

When titans clash: Google vs. AT&T for America's Internet future

"The FCC recently announced plans to auction off portions of the wireless spectrum in order to raise money for the government. Although supporters of net neutrality and broadband access wanted the spectrum to remain open in order to build a national wireless broadband...

The human face of net neutrality

"A friend of a friend recently asked me for help in describing Net Neutrality in order to get a comment published in the New Smyrna Beach Shadow, a local Floridian news site that focuses on unearthing graft, greed, and corruption in city and county politics. There's a...

The future of newspapers II: Of shock-jocks and self-made media-stars

"Journalists know real excitement: of being first to cover a news story; of offering the critical insight that unlocks events and brings down corrupt elites. Competition between journalists and media companies has been the stuff of compelling drama for generations. Now the...

British Student Makes $200K Selling Pixels

Alex, a 21 year old Brit about to begin business studies at University in England, was worried about the burden of student loans after he graduates, so he did some brainstorming and came up with the Million Dollar...

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