Saturday, October 12, 2013
The Hidden War Against Gay TeensAlex Morris wrote a great piece at Rolling Stone about what can only be called the social abuse being perpetrated at Christian schools. You should know before you read the quote below that “they” refers to the leadership of one of the Christian schools discussed in …Friday, October 11, 2013
One Google, two different privacy rulingsStanford researcher Jonathan Mayer, in an email to the Wall Street Journal’s Elizabeth Dwoskin and Rolfe Winkler: Courts are doing pretzel twists to slot modern electronic privacy issues into antiquated statutory schemes. Congress badly needs to update the …Friday, October 11, 2013
Sheryl Sandberg: The real storyCNN’s Miguel Helft, in a great profile of Sandberg at the Money blog: How Sandberg, amid all her Facebook activities, managed to write Lean In, orchestrate flashy book tours on three continents, launch a foundation, and become a ubiquitous spokesperson for the …Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Living man declared dead, too late to overturn ruling Hancock County Probate Court Judge Allan Davis, who declared Donald Eugene Miller Jr. dead in 1994, eight years after he vanished from his rental home in Arcadia, told Miller in court Monday the law only allows death rulings to be overturned …Tuesday, October 8, 2013
EFF’s Legal Guide for BloggersThis is useful. If you have delayed starting your own blog because you’re nervous about the legal issues, give this a read and reconsider.Thursday, September 26, 2013
Some oaths are apparently more oathy than othersThis is a great article, but this bit is particularly rich. Tyler Bass of Vice’s Motherboard reports the now well-known Petraeus affair with an elegant juxtaposition of facts: “Oaths do matter,” David H. Petraeus, then C.I.A. director, said at the …Thursday, September 19, 2013
Reuters nixes Next: Failed redesigns and the challenge of expanding a digital audienceThat’s a shame. This image alone illustrates the design strides made by the Next team (the cancelled redesign is on the right). The Reuters iOS app is better than that of Associated Press, for what it’s worth.Thursday, September 19, 2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Berlusconi would not have been tried if gayThis guy is in charge of a country. Crazy.Monday, September 16, 2013
NYT managing editor: Guardian story on Israel and N.S.A. Is Not ‘Surprising’ Enough to CoverNew York Times news editor Dean Baquet suffered a serious lapse in editorial judgment. I mean, he can’t be serious, can he?Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Daniel Victor of the New York Times shows us how to be a reporter even on TwitterThis is a great story precisely because Victor wasn’t writing a blog post about how to properly commit journalism on Twitter, he was properly committing journalism on Twitter.Monday, September 9, 2013
John Gruber on the convergence of smartphones and tablets John Gruber: Better, I think, not to treat smartphones and tablets as separate categories, but merely as different sizes of the same thing. I think he is absolutely right, but even a year ago I would have argued like a lunatic against that …Friday, September 6, 2013
Michael Poulshock’s Hammurabi Project aims to make law and regulations accessible to the masses Terry Carter, writing at the ABA Journal: Poulshock, 38, is writing source code for each law, which can then be entered into computers and applied to fact patterns. (The project is open source, online at …Sunday, September 1, 2013
On Law, Policy, and (Not) Bombing SyriaIan Hurd, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, writing at preeminent international law blog Opinio Juris: It is well known that the [U.N.] Charter forbids the use of force except as self-defense or as sanctioned by the UN …Friday, August 30, 2013
My first post at MediumIt’s something I put here in January, but I thought I’d point it out in case you hadn’t seen it, or you prefer Medium, or you have yet to see Medium in action.Thursday, August 29, 2013
Apps for storing your photos in the cloudAt the end of the day, expertise or a lack of it will define your requirements in this space. Less savvy folks love Google+ Photos because the auto-upload is effectively unlimited for them with the appropriate size setting.Monday, August 26, 2013
Kevin Spacey knows what viewers wantActor Kevin Spacey, speaking at the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival: Clearly the success of the Netflix model – releasing the entire season of House Of Cards at once – has proved one thing: the audience wants control. They …Sunday, August 25, 2013
How reality caught up with paranoid delusions it was not in the least like losing one’s reason… I was rationalising all the time, it was simply one’s reason working hard on the wrong premises. — novelist Evelyn Waugh, speaking retrospectively of his own psychotic episode This is a fascinating …Thursday, August 15, 2013
Welcome to Google IslandIf you follow one link from my blog this week, make it the one above. It’s well-written and disturbingly possible-seeming.Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Facebook Testing VIP App With Some CelebsIn case you thought I was becoming a Facebook fanboy, let me just say that this celeb crap is something Zuck will be adding to his list of regrets within the year. Granted, that’s probably a very short list, but this VIP thing is a distraction an a gimmick …Wednesday, August 14, 2013
101 million of Facebook’s 128 million daily U.S. users are on mobile devicesMy headline says it all. If you still had any doubt about the importance of mobile to anyone doing anything on the Internet, this stat should disabuse you of that uncertainty. Amazing.Wednesday, August 14, 2013
How Brown Moses exposed Syrian arms trafficking from his front roomEliot Higgins’ work is a prime example of how the Internet and user generated content are changing journalism on a molecular level. What a fascinating read.Sunday, August 11, 2013
US government recognizes League of Legends players as pro athletesThis is fascinating, especially with immigration such a hot topic recently.Saturday, August 10, 2013
Honda Launches National Campaign to Save Drive-In TheatersGreat idea but, more to the point, brilliant marketing.Saturday, August 10, 2013
Legislative failure to define essential terms The definition of terms essential to the application of a law is the most basic requirement for competent lawmaking. Sometimes one or more terms are appropriately defined in an open way, to provide flexibility in the application of a law. This is not one …Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Fast Company’s Austin Carr profiles Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley This profile of Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley by Austin Carr at Fast Company does a great job of humanizing the app and its maker. That’s probably because the man behind the location-sharing and, more recently, …Monday, August 5, 2013
U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate AmericansJohn Shiffman and Kristina Cooke, reporting for Reuters Washington bureau: The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to “recreate” the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, …Sunday, August 4, 2013
A Day In The Life Of An iPhone Factory WorkerThis is something everyone should read. Apple isn’t the only company benefiting from working conditions like this, and that makes it worse, not better. The dominant press narrative is that Apple is profiting from the misery of toiling foreign workers. The …Saturday, August 3, 2013
How the death of Google Reader is saving RSSBen Popper, at The Verge1: Some Reader partisans may have given up on RSS after the shutdown, but the majority seem to have migrated to other platforms. In the weeks following the announcement, Feedly saw 3 million Google Reader refugees sign up and …Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Facebook Said to Plan to Sell TV-Style Ads for $2.5M EachHugeMonday, July 29, 2013
Twitter user arrested for threatening to rape and murder female activistI wrote recently about my disappointment with Twitter’s response to a woman deluged with rape threats. Today, David Edwards of t The Raw Story reports that a man has been arrested in England for threats made against Caroline …