Analysis & Design 101: The Only Guideline You Will Ever Need Question #1: What problem are you attempting to solve? Question #2: Why is it a problem, and what data supports? Question #3: Which (of a continnuum of solutions) mitigates or solves the problem and how? Question #4: How will we prove the problem is […]
For those who still do not seem to grok the depth and breadth of sophistication that is only accelerating in surveillance methods and techniques, I submit this paper (one author of which is noted, “Work done at Google.” on the first page). In it, you will find that technology can now parse video, audio, and […]
It occurs to me that much of the mess plaguing “social networks” at the moment arises from a failure to genuinely reflect and remind ourselves about what it means to be “social” and what it means to “socially network”; to revisit what “social networks” may legitimately be defined as and, more importantly, to establish what […]
If you never pay attention to me again this life. If you never try to hear but one thing from me. Let this be it. Let this be the one. I am going to link you to a lecture that is going to tell you things that will sound unbelievable. They’re not. The video, if […]
(Update at end of post as of 1:00pm PST today – ed.) So… I have spent the last day and a half carefully migrating from my pseudonym accounts with Google, also in pulling my information from Google’s various services in preparation for leaving and deleting my primary real-name account and all related services as well. […]
In digging into this tempest over names and pseudonyms happening here at Google+, I’ve been going back and re-reading articles to help gain context and insight to the matter; frankly, I’ve been doing this to try and understand how and why a company so delightfully supportive of customer choice in the past has become so […]
(This item, originally posted upon my Google+ stream, is placed here for archival purposes.) The practice of pseudonymous communication is a foundational cornerstone upon which much of American history and culture rests; it was and remains one of the chief mechanisms by which dissent and civic protest occur, and it is integral to the activity […]
Reposting from a conversation at TED because I think I managed to encapsulate this for myself nicely: I very rarely engage the news except as reference point for my own research; I take a story reported in one outlet and compare/contrast it nationally or internationally to uncover its most objective rendering; I want those who […]
[Note: The following transcript is made available at no cost from DemocracyNow.Org; an Internet news outlet operating upon charitable donations from people like you. If you appreciate the following information being available AT ALL, please consider donating to them. The video/audio of this interview is available with them at: Ellsberg on Assange. ] Pentagon Whistleblower Daniel […]