May 2012
6 posts
“Social media enable people to be their best
selves: honest, open, fallible,...”
– http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/05/the_new_professional.html
What would Bruce Willis do?
From a new study by Unisys, the three highest priorities for Americans when it comes to security issues in the presidential campaign are:
Protecting government computer systems against hackers and criminals (74 percent)
Protecting our electric power grid, water utilities and transportation systems against computer or terrorist attacks (73 percent)
Homeland security issues such as terrorism...
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
– Simone Weil (via stoweboyd)
Neme Collection: Machine-to-machine communication... →
See on Scoop.it - Web of Things Services from healthcare to energy will change over the next decade as machine-to-machine communication facilitates more sophisticated automation.
The shift will be led by a combination of improved network communication, smaller and lower cost embedded…
“Although women now make up the majority of college graduates, the number of...”
– Attracting More Women to Computer Science Requires Shattering the ‘Brogrammer’ Culture - Education - GOOD (via infoneer-pulse)
April 2012
4 posts
“But I want to end with a plug for the brain. I don’t think one can digitize...”
– - Ann Blair, Information hoarders
Iran expected to permanently cut off Internet by... →
infoneer-pulse:
Millions of Internet users in Iran could soon be permanently cut off from the Web, social networks, and e-mail.
In a statement released last week, Reza Taghipour, the Iranian minister for Information and Communications Technology, announced it plans to establish a national intranet within five months in an effort to create a “clean Internet,” according to an International...
“It was only later that I realized the value of being bored was actually pretty...”
– Clay Shirky - How Will We Read (via bijan)
March 2012
12 posts
“Terrorists have not [yet] used the Internet to launch a full-scale cyberattack,...”
– FBI director Robert Mueller
The Industrialization of Data Theft: Verizon's... →
infoneer-pulse:
The job of stealing your personal data is now a fully-fledged industry - in some regards, one that is becoming terrifyingly legitimized. Earlier this month, security experts with Verizon gave reporters at the RSA Conference an advance look at detailed forensics data, compiled with the assistance of the world’s law enforcement agencies including the U.S. Secret Service. That data...
“Technological asymmetry has always been a feature of warfare, but no nation has...”
– Cyber and Drone Attacks May Change Warfare More Than the Machine Gun - Ross Andersen - Technology - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)
“There’s no doubting the cloud invasion. But the research firm Gartner believes...”
– ‘Personal Cloud’ to Replace PC by 2014, Says Gartner | Cloudline | Wired.com (via myserendipities)
“Though one person may now be producing the previous results of three, she’s not...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/business/when-office-technology-overwhelms-get-organized.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
I’m not a “curator” →
Codifying “via” links with confusing symbols is solving the wrong problem.
While I don’t take any issue with the word “curator,” I completely agree: crediting the source of discovery on the internet is, and should be, optional. Authorship, on the other hand, is a serious matter — but I don’t think anyone is contending that. Especially on a platform like Tumblr, where “reblog” credit can be...
“Such supporters of crowdfunding as Nick Tommarello say it will give...”
– Alone in a Crowd: How Crowdfunding Could Strand Startups - Businessweek (via mediafuturist)
Hackers had 'full functional control' of Nasa... →
infoneer-pulse:
Hackers gained “full functional control” of key Nasa computers in 2011, the agency’s inspector general has told US lawmakers.
Paul K Martin said hackers took over Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) computers and “compromised the accounts of the most privileged JPL users”.
He said the attack, involving Chinese IP addresses, was under investigation.
» via BBC
Wikis In The Classroom: Another Crock →
stoweboyd:
Leaving aside our natural desire to believe that social tools of whatever stripe are better than non-collaboration, I maintain that wikis are a failed experiment. [I put to one side Wikipedia, which has been enormously successful, but it is a singular example, for a wide variety of reasons.] In…
FBI Director says cybercrime will eclipse... →
Cybercriminals are becoming a threat that rivals terrorist groups like al Qaeda, according to the nation’s top law enforcement official.
“Terrorism does remain the FBI’s top priority, but in the not too-distant-future we anticipate that the cyberthreat will pose the greatest threat to our country,” FBI Director Robert Mueller told a gathering of security professionals on Thursday at RSA’s...
February 2012
18 posts
“So we researched how people were doing online what they previously used The...”
– Andrew Rashbass
The Future of Interaction Design
To follow up on an earlier post here, “The Future Will Be Made of Glass & Silicone”, Bret Victor writes that the problem with such visions of the future is that they aren’t, well, visionary. “Why limit the future of interactions to models and ideas that have been around since at least 1968?” he asks, pointing out that “pictures under glass” visions...
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old,...”
– Socrates (via psychotherapy)
We Can’t Wait: Obama Administration Unveils...
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
February 23, 2012
We Can’t Wait: Obama Administration Unveils Blueprint for a “Privacy Bill of Rights” to Protect Consumers Online
Internet Advertising Networks Announces Commitment to “Do-Not-Track” Technology to Allow Consumers to Control Online Tracking
WASHINGTON, DC – The Obama Administration today unveiled a “Consumer...
California leads the way, again
Ms. Harris said Wednesday that Apple Inc., Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Research In Motion Ltd. agreed that California law requires apps to have privacy policies, and that they would begin asking app developers who collect personal information to include them.
“No, let’s put the blame where it belongs, on us, the users of the...”
– Thomas Claburn
How Higher Education Is Going Digital... →
People are talking about digital tech’s opportunity to improve the classroom. Much of the discussion has been focused on digital textbooks. Apple’s recent announcement of iBooks for education has caused a stir over whether texts delivered on an expensive and propriety device like the iPad are rea…
Stowe Boyd: MG Siegler Says 'Most Of What Is... →
MG Siegler confesses that he and many other tech writers have been doing a piss-poor job:
MG Siegler, Content Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink via ParisLemon
Most of what is written about the tech world — both in blog form and old school media form — is bullshit. I won’t try to put some…
“A person’s contacts are so sensitive that Alec Ross, a senior adviser on...”
– Disruptions: So Many Apologies, So Much Data Mining
Apple Controls 75% Of The Profits In The Key... →
Speaking of crazy charts… these great ones by Horace Dediu of Asymco are just bonkers.
In the first, you’ll see that Apple retains the top rank in profitability among mobile phone OEMs for the third straight year…
In the second chart, you’ll see that Apple snatched the revenue crown back from Samsung last quarter.
But the third one is the best. It’s not just that Apple is ahead in profit...
Just doing it for the world, is all...
…Facebook exists to make the world more open and connected, and not just to build a company. We expect everyone at Facebook to focus every day on how to build real value for the world in everything they do.
- Mark Zuckerberg (from ‘The Hacker Way’ letter to investors)
“There is a big structural problem for both Google and Facebook as they...”
– Keith Teare
January 2012
20 posts
“The challenge is that the Internet is a global resource but there are no...”
– Kevin Johnson, chief executive officer at the US-based Internet infrastructure provider Juniper Networks
“We knew on Friday we were doing well when ‘The Grey’ was trending on...”
– Open Road Chief Executive Tom Ortenberg
Free Courses, Elite Colleges →
infoneer-pulse:
Udemy, a company that allows anyone to create and sell courses through its online platform, has announced a new area of its site, called The Faculty Project, devoted to courses by professors at a number of top institutions, such as Colgate, Duke University, Stanford University, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Virginia, Dartmouth College and...
Tweets still must flow, even if some are censored
bitshare:
What the heck is happening to the Internet? It seems lately that it’s going to hell in a hand basket. Sure the Internet has always been a place where volatile things can happen, but it could be avoided on an individual basis. Now it appears the places that we come together as a community to interact and socialize in places that have become sacred is evolving and changing at a rapid...
Rosetta Reservations →
infoneer-pulse:
Depending on whom you ask, Rosetta Stone is either modernizing higher education or jeopardizing the quality of foreign language instruction by offering classes for transferrable college credit.
Rosemary Feal, executive director of the Modern Language Association and a Spanish professor, calls the idea “scandalous.”
David McAlpine, president of the board of directors for the...
“I think their decision to artificially promote Google Plus pages above more...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Google’s Problem: Relevance
Exactly right. That’s what I meant when I wrote this a year ago. Google won search because they prioritized the best answer above anything else. They have crossed that line and it will hurt.
(via bijan)
“…the lecture was the most effective way to convey information. We had the...”
– Sebastian Thrun on why he’s leaving Stanford to found Udacity.com
“Innovation is at its most powerful when it works through imagination. While...”
– John Seely Brown