Google Privacy Policy “Vague”

June 13, 2007

David notes comments by Google’s privacy counsel that their privacy policy is ‘vague’ and may need to be revised in light of recent criticisms. Whatever the case, it’s an exceptionally good thing that the internet is helping to bring pressure to bear to change terms of service and privacy policies where the larger community has […]

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Hey, Globe: It’s Not a Network Neutrality Issue

June 13, 2007

Praise be to Michael for pointing out the Globe’s apparent misunderstanding of network neutrality in its piece today conflating that concept and the notion of pay per bandwidth in ISP pricing. It’s a post I’ve been wanting to write since I read the article earlier today and was annoyed almost, but not quite, to action. […]

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Les Moonves Burnishes His Victim Cred

June 13, 2007

Predictably, Les Moonves’ reaction to Dan Rather’s criticism of CBS’s decision to take its evening newscast ‘lite’ with Katie Couric is to portray himself as defending her honour – a Prince Valiant, no less. AP quotes Moonves as saying that Couric should get a break, having been on the air for only nine months. By […]

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Safari Speed – It’s Really About the Mac

June 13, 2007

There’s been tons of attention paid to Safari, the OSX browser, since WWDC – principally because Steve Jobs made the seemingly head-scratching announcement there that Apple was releasing Safari for Windows. Mathew covered that angle ably in his post yesterday. What I’m intrigued by is the torrent of Apple hate that the announcement has released. […]

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It’s All Love and Kisses for Michael Sabia

June 12, 2007

You could be forgiven for holding your nose at today’s Globe headline out of the BCE takeover tango: “Cerberus vows to keep Sabia if bid succeeds”. And all of that without a trace of irony. Yes, that’s right – Cerberus “supports” BCE senior management, and it has everything to do with their stellar performance and […]

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RedFlagDeals.com Hits 100,000

June 12, 2007

Congratulations to Derek and the crew on hitting 100,000 members. A most excellent accomplishment. “Now the numbers speak for themselves: over 100,000 members, over 750,000 monthly unique visitors, and over 18 million pageviews a month! Almost everything on RedFlagDeals.com is free to use and accessible without registering, so to me it’s an amazing achievement that […]

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Why the U.S. Really Needs an “Education President”

June 11, 2007

“The majority of Republicans in the United States do not believe the theory of evolution is true and do not believe that humans evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life.” Details. Although, to be fair, education seems to have been lost on Governor Huckabee.

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“A Patent Lie”

June 9, 2007

Tim Lee of the Technology Liberation Front op-eds on software patents at the NYT, and has Messr. Gates in his sights. Go Tim go.

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Borking Bork

June 8, 2007

“Judge Robert Bork, one of the fathers of the modern judicial conservative movement whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate, is seeking $1,000,000 in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages, after he slipped and fell at the Yale Club of New York City. … Judge Bork has been a leading advocate of […]

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mesh07 Buckmaster-Evans Keynote up

June 8, 2007

Mark’s excellent mesh07 keynote conversation with Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster is now up on mdialogue.

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More mesh media

June 6, 2007

Two of my favourite mesh media pieces so far: mdialogue’s interviews in the unconference area at mesh, and the videos (part 1 and part 2) that the really rather remarkable Mark McKay has (very generously) put together from mdialogue’s footage and his own of Stuart MacDonald’s keynote conversation with Richard Edelman (thanks, Mark!). More to […]

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MESH Slidr

June 6, 2007

Check out Rannie’s mesh Slidr.

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