Don’t Ask and Don’t Tell Facebook
The military is trying to devise policies to govern how our service people use social networking sites, according to a story by Julian Barnes in the LA Times. The article implies the Pentagon accepts...
View ArticleApple: Totalitarian art
Jason Calacanis has an excellent post making the case against Apple, from an Apple fan’s point of view. I’m basically with him. Doc Searls has long said that the key to understanding Steve Jobs — and...
View ArticleNew issue of JOHO the Newsletter
I’ve just sent out the August 18, 2009 issue of JOHO, my newsletter. (It’s completely free, so feel free to subscribe.) It’s all new material (well, new-ish) except for one piece. Cluetrain@10:...
View ArticleKids with flamethrowers
Flavorwire posts about a project studying microcommunities that takes online flamethrowers as its topic: The premise is simple; to showcase kids and their homemade flamethrowers. However, the concept...
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Wikipedia’s tactical change mistaken for strategic
At the English language version of Wikipedia now, changes to articles about living people won’t be posted until a Wikipedian has reviewed it. Those articles are now moderated. (See Slashdot for details...
View ArticleMy arms too short to box the Internet
Doc’s got an excellent, provocative post about how our thinking about the Internet hems us in. I find myself nodding my head but also holding back just a little. My head nods up and down to Doc’s...
View ArticleRIAA wins DMCA case: Now illegal to decompose
The RIAA has won a ruling that the DMCA‘s provision that forbids backward engineering software to see how it work applies also to musical recordings. The ruling forbids any attempt to figure out the...
View ArticlePew on civic engagement
Pew Internet & Life has a new study on the Internet and civic engagement. Here are the four key findings, as put by Lee Rainie, the head of the project: First, those engaged with civic life online...
View ArticleWikipedia’s bio policy explained
Billy Barnes explains what’s really going on with Wikipedia’s new process for editing the biographies of living people. What the media reported: In response to vandalism of bios, Wikipedia is not...
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Danny de Vito’s Twitter pic
He’s tweeted twice so far, once that his nuts are on fire, and then promising a phone call to a friend when he hits 100K followers, indicating that perhaps he hasn’t looked past the “number of...
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