Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:07 AM/EST

Next Steps on SOPA

When speaking last week about social media and such to the senior class at my daughter's high school, I began with the Wikipedia blackout and asked them what was up with that. "SOPA," responded the crowd. Now, they had just...

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:40 AM/EST

Chinese Hackers Whack DOD Security

by Tim Moran Reports suggest that Chinese hackers have deployed a particularly nasty strain of malware, known as Sykipot, to effectively hijack the DOD and Windows smart card system used by government employees. Writes AlienVault: "According to our research, these...

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:14 AM/EST

Good Riddance to the Textbook

By Samuel Greengard Apple sent ripples through the education and publishing worlds when it announced that it was looking to redefine the modern textbook. iBook Author could revolutionize the way schools and students use books. It could modernize learning and,...

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Monday, January 23, 2012 10:16 AM/EST

Why It's Not Called Web Depot

By Samuel Greengard It's not difficult to spot minor glitches and shortcomings at almost any e-commerce site. But it's shocking to visit a major retailer's site and experience functionality that works more like 1996 than 2012. Welcome to Home Depot...

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Friday, January 20, 2012 11:37 AM/EST

Second Amendment Meets First Amendment

While waxing nostalgic and looking for the roots of the rebellion against SOPA and PIPA I found a relevant bit of paleoblog navel-gazing come true. From 2003, as the power of social tools -- preached by pioneers like Dave Winer...

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:51 AM/EST

Ten Years Gone: Hollywood vs the Web

SOPA and PIPA may be bad news, but they aren't really fresh news. Back in 2002, the equation already had been worked out: Hollywood money + Congressional cluelessness = flawed legislation The issue at that time was a bill aimed...

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:34 AM/EST

Coding Playoffs Feature Dueling AIs

by Tim Moran Hard on the heels of college bowl season comes the International Collegiate Programming Finals, a competition that promises "All the excitement of March Madness, without the sweat!" Sponsored by Windward, which started as a gaming company (Enemy...

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:42 PM/EST

Alone Together on the Web

By Samuel Greengard I'm sitting in a Starbucks in my hometown of West Linn Oregon typing out this blog. There's nothing remarkable about that. These days, we're all wired in from everywhere. I've posted to Facebook from Galway, Ireland and...

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:33 PM/EST

Facebook is Not the Web

Big BJ Barnes, the longtime sheriff of Guilford County, NC, looks like a southern lawman out of a bad old movie, but he's really smart and effective and seems likely to get reelected in this urbanized patch of Piedmont for...

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Wednesday, January 04, 2012 10:36 AM/EST

Making Big Data Knowable

How will we ever make sense of scientific topics that are too big to know? The short answer: by transforming what it means to know something scientifically. An excerpt from David Weinberger's new book, Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge...

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