Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Google is wardriving
codeblog: "I implemented the location-of-your-wifi API quickly, so I could terrify myself further."
[bookmark]Monday, March 15, 2010
"Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity"
danah boyd: "While there's a lot we don't know about behavioral and articulated networks, we do know that they are NOT the same as personal networks."
[bookmark]Saturday, March 13, 2010
The Twilight of the Elites
TIME: "This is the danger of living in a society in which the landscape of authority has been leveled: it's not there when you actually need it."
[bookmark]Friday, March 05, 2010
In China, Wal-Mart presses suppliers on labor, environmental standards
washingtonpost.com: "'For those who may still be on the sidelines, I want to be direct,' Wal-Mart chief executive Lee Scott said sternly. 'Meeting social and environmental standards is not optional.'"
[bookmark]Five Ways to Heal American Capitalism
Harvard Business Review: "This will encourage senior executives to break the habit of giving guidance and, by extension, of manipulating numbers to hit their guidance numbers. They can get back to the psychologically rewarding business of actually creating value."
[bookmark]Thursday, March 04, 2010
The full-scale collapse: From Murrow to Blitzer
Glenn Greenwald: "Edward R. Murrow led the media attack on the McCarthyism of the 1950s. Wolf Blitzer plays mindless, amiable, neutral, amplifying host to identical smear campaigns of today. That collapse says all one needs to know about much of modern establishment political journalism in the United States."
[bookmark]Pigeons Beat Humans at Solving 'Monty Hall' Problem
LiveScience -- just what we need: pigeons that can apply Bayes' rule.
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