September 2009
3 posts
A Harvard Skirmish in the Copyright Wars →
Andrew Magliozzi, who graduated from Harvard College in 2006, runs the FinalsClub.org website. It hosts lecture notes and study groups for Harvard courses. At the moment you can get the nickel…
Cracking The Brain's Numerical Code: Researchers... →
By carefully observing and analyzing the pattern of activity in the brain, researchers have found that they can tell what number a person has just seen, or how many dots a person has been presented…
7500 lines of Bug Free Code, A Mathematically... →
Computer researchers at UNSW (University of New South Wales) and NICTA (NICTA is Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence) have achieved a breakthrough in…
June 2009
3 posts
Encryption is the answer →
In Blown to Bits we spend all of Chapter 5 making the argument that (a) perfect secrecy is possible through public key encryption and (b) almost no one encrypts their email anyway. Why this would be…
Google submits initial comments supporting a... →
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Open, ubiquitous broadband connectivity holds the promise to catapult America to the next level of competitiveness, productivity,…
Facebook Coming to Xbox Live This Fall - Now You... →
Facebook has just announced integration with Xbox Live at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles this morning. Now, users can can update their status, post photos, and play games with friends directly within…
May 2009
4 posts
Obama Administration Sides With Technology Over... →
It’s no secret that those of us who have been in favor of pushing back against the worst abuses of intellectual property law have been disappointed by the Obama administration — which brought in a…
Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a... →
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Totally fascinating. I have always been interested in the evolutionary basis for the differences between liberals and conservatives, and it seems this idea / subject is getting…
Company Uses Nanobots To Fight Cancer…But Its Not... →
Nanobots the size of living cells swimming around our bodies, doing our bidding to fight disease, make repairs, and augment our abilities? Futurists and sci-fi books have cooked up this fantasy for…
Is Regulation of Broadcast Speech an Anachronism? →
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This is awesome, we may soon be able to say fuck on television… Maybe this will imbue Jimmy Falon with some life after all.
We make that argument (which we learned from a paper…
April 2009
1 post
Obama in Turkey →
From President Obama’s remarks to the Turkish Parliament yesterday: “I know there have been difficulties these last few years. I know that the trust that binds the United States and Turkey has…
March 2009
6 posts
Department of Justice Supports the RIAA in the... →
We reported for the first time back in October on the case of RIAA v. Tenenbaum. The Recording Industries have taken one Joel Tenenbaum to task for downloading a few songs while he was a BU…
8 Ways the Changing Facebook Home Page Will Affect... →
For developers who live and die by the changes Facebook makes to the way information flows through the service, every little Facebook tweak has the potential to make a big difference to the…
Facebook Sending Perez Hilton More Traffic than... →
For media companies evaluating their Facebook marketing strategy, here’s an interesting sign of the times: web analytics firm Hitwise is reporting that, for the first time ever, Facebook drove…
Zuckerberg Uses TweetDeck Because He Knows It Will... →
If you’ve been following Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter feed over the past few days you probably noticed that he was updating his status from TweetDeck. So why on earth would Mark Zuckerberg use…
A Reply to Congressman Conyers →
Mr. Conyers says I “cross the line.” He says I label his motivations for introducing this bill as “corrupt,” that I accuse him of “shilling,” and that I “dismiss” his bill as nothing more than a…
Earmark reform →
Herein brews perhaps the first important battle of reform for this President. I have long thought the President should resign his membership in the Democratic Party — not because he doesn’t…
February 2009
22 posts
Governing the Facebook Service in an Open and... →
Last week, we returned to our previous Terms of Use as we worked on a new set of governing documents that would more clearly explain the relationship between Facebook and its users. Since then,…
How Neutral Should Wireless Networks Be? →
As more of us hop on our 3G-connected smartphones or netbooks, and future 4G connections offer the promise of wired-like speeds via wireless networks, Ars Technica has posted a great article on how…
Facebook Management Has Lost Its Grip on Reality →
Facebook made one of the most important announcements in the young company’s history today. It has proposed a set of foundational documents, including the first official statement of Facebook…
Mashable Gets a Social Media Makeover →
You’ll notice we’re making some changes at Mashable today: a new, cleaner design to help you find our content more easily, and a reduction in the number of ads. We have a new tagline, too:…
From Broadband Market to Broadband Ecology →
Let me say at the outset that the more I dig into the stimulus bill (barring the tax cuts) the more impressed I get. The team that worked on broadband stimulus in particular really put careful…
Net Neutrality Advocate Takes Charge in the Senate →
The pieces are falling into place to finally pass Net Neutrality.
Yesterday, President Barack Obama signed an economic stimulus bill with $7.2 billion to get fast, affordable, neutral Internet to…
From Broadband Market to Broadband Ecology →
Let me say at the outset that the more I dig into the stimulus bill (barring the tax cuts) the more impressed I get. The team that worked on broadband stimulus in particular really put careful…
Stimulus Bill Reminds Us that Conference... →
For all the attention paid to the back-and-forth over the House and Senate versions of the economic stimulus bill, the version that REALLY mattered is the one that appeared last: the conference…
Federal Policy Update →
The House of Representatives passed the conference agreement for H.R. 1 – the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act this afternoon, with approval by the U.S. Senate expected this evening or sometime…
The AP Reveals Details of Facebook/ConnectU... →
This is almost too good to be true. The Associated Press has uncovered the details of the Facebook/ConnectU settlement using, of all things, copy and paste. After taking drastic preventative…
Broadband provisions in the economic stimulus... →
Adam Kovacevich, Senior Manager, Global Communications and Public Affairs We’re trying out a new feature on this blog — video interviews with folks from Google’s public policy team. With a deal…
Ballmer to Congress: Act Now on Stimulus Agreement →
House and Senate lawmakers moved with impressive speed today to forge a final agreement on a $789 billion stimulus package designed to help revive the struggling U.S. economy. Microsoft CEO Steve…
StatShot: Farmers With Broadband →
We wrote yesterday about the effect the broadband stimulus bill may have on rural ISPs, and today we ran across a nice rundown of broadband access in rural America over at Daily Yonder….
Obama hints at cybersecurity shakeup with review →
In a move that could reshape the federal government’s cybersecurity efforts, President Obama on Monday said a former Booz Allen consultant would conduct an immediate two-month review of all related…
Google CEO advises right wing, too--in the U.K. →
Google CEO Eric Schmidt
(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News)
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt advised Barack Obama during his presidential campaign, but apparently he’s willing to…
More Evidence of Obama as Crowdsourcer:... →
Check out this report from Clint Hendler of CJR.org, who is tracking President Obama’s comments at today’s town-hall meeting in Elkhart, Indiana. He quotes Obama describing Recovery.gov in the…
How come I can't...
… upload files from my computer?
But still...
… there are some added benefits of using tumblr:
I can use this data in more interesting ways.
The interface is really simple
There are some other things that I am not thinking of right now.
Actually...
…I thought this was really cool until I just realized Facebook allows me to do all of this already.
If only...
there were settings for me to autoimport my activity on places like google reader, youtube, facebook, etc… Having to post things to just another place, isnt all that cool.
I would also like to...
be able to do more ‘searching…’
… of both my activity on this site as well as the activity of others.
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