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Photo of the Academy, taken by me. Just back from a stint of teaching at the Folke Bernadotte Academy. I’ve done a short write up about it at the ICT4Peace Foundation’s site. The participants were a tough, mixed bunch. All very experienced in either intelligence analysis or field work, they came from military, police, government, intelligence [...]
Christopher Jablonski is a freelance technology writer. Previously, he held research analyst positions in the IT industry and was the manager of marketing editorial at CBS Interactive.
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Isn’t it delightful how geek culture works? During my Christmas shopping last year, I stumbled into a favorite little pop culture shop in Little Collins Street in Melbourne which is well known for its comprehensive stocking of all things Lovecraftian. I was looking for some stocking fillers for the kids; instead I walked out with [...] The combination of a cloud service and verification that does not involve sharing data has allowed one company to provide a true bumper-to-bumper insurance policy, reports Victor Cruz.
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Fusion-io is wooing programmers with a software development kit loaded with interfaces so apps can directly access a flash cache as a memory tier.Technorati
Mark Avsec is the man who wrote the Bon Jovi hit "She Don't Know Me" and Donnie Iris' "Ah! Leah!". But his story goes much deeper. Frivolously sued for stealing his own song, he subsequently did something about it.
We've heard recently of CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act , a bill currently making its way through Congress that many are calling the latest incarnation of SOPA. Reader SolKeshNaranek points out an article at Techdirt explaining exactly why this bill is bad , and how its backers are trying to deflect criticism by using language that's different and rather vague. Quoting: "The bill defines 'cybersecurity systems' and 'cyber threat information' as anything to do with protecting a network from: ' (A) efforts to degrade, disrupt, or destroy such system or network; or (B) theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information. ' It's easy to see how that definition could be interpreted to include things that go way beyond network security — specifically, copyright policing systems at virtually any point along a network could easily qualify."
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There are many approaches to sharing information you've found on the web, but a new free tool called eSnips is one of the most useful and intriguing yet seen. Net Snippets , the company that developed a product for post-search information management, has rolled out a new tool for collecting and sharing information. eSnips is a way cool tool—a little hard to describe but amazing in its capabilities. A caveat: eSnips is just barely in beta, and every now and then it hiccups, so be patient. I have already seen several improvements in the service since I have begun using it, and I have high hopes that it will continue to improve. So, what is eSnips?
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Ross Mayfield's Weblog
• The Political Power of Social Media | Foreign Affairs Discussion of the political impact of social media has focused on the power of mass protests to topple governments. In fact, social media's real potential lies in supporting civil society and the public sphere -- which will produce change over years and decades, not weeks or months. • Freedom, Trust, and Other Boring Software Features - Anil Dash Trustworthy computing was truly a worthy vision. Hopefully we'll see new products that are announced with a bullet point saying "You can trust our company and here's why", alongside all the other compelling parts of a trusted experience.
Rebuilding Media_ The economics of content
There is a delicious irony that the wireless phone companies reap the rewards of enlisting tens of millions of users to pay about $10 monthly for the feature of sending and receiving 160 character text messages, yet publishers can’t make a business of convincing a small fraction of that number to pay half that amount to receive an online “newspaper” or magazine.” We pay to create our own information but won’t pay to receive news and other information created by “professionals.” This phenomenon is at the heart of a sudden groundswell of concern for the future of the newspaper.Net als in de andere culturele sectoren verandert de omgang met cultureel erfgoed ingrijpend onder invloed van ontwikkelingen in technologie en de netwerk- en informatiemaatschappij. Cultureel erfgoed wordt steeds vaker van een analoge naar een digitale vorm overgezet of rechtstreeks digitaal aangemaakt. Het wordt ook op een elektronische manier beschreven, op servers of harde schijven bewaard, online beschikbaar gemaakt … Het begrip digitaal cultureel erfgoed staat dan ook niet enkel voor digitale of gedigitaliseerde inhoud of collecties, maar vooral voor hoe met deze digitale inhoud of collecties kan worden omgegaan. Deze ingrijpende omslag van een analoge naar een digitale omgeving creëert voor de cultureel erfgoedsector nieuwe uitdagingen met betrekking tot het aanmaken, ontsluiten, bewaren, delen en uitwisselen van (digitale) erfgoedbronnen.
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A month or so ago, Micah Sifry offered me a chance to respond to Andrew Keen, author of the forthcoming Cult of the Amateur , at a panel at last week’s Personal Democracy Forum (PdF). The book is a polemic against the current expansion of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of association. Also on the panel were Craig Newmark and Robert Scoble, so I was in good company; my role would, I thought, be easy — be pro-amateur production, pro-distributed creation, pro-collective action, and so on, things that come naturally to me. What I did not expect was what happened — I ended up defending Keen, and key points from Cult of the Amateur, against a panel of my peers.
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I just posted a blog post on the MIT Media Lab blog officially taking a position against SOPA and PIPA. This is a longer blog post co-authored with Ethan Zuckerman describing the issue in more detail. SOPA - the Stop Online Piracy Act - and a sister bill, PIPA - the Protect IP Act - seek to minimize the dissemination of copyrighted material online by targeting sites that promote and enable the sharing of copyright-protected material, like The Pirate Bay.