Interesting piece in NYT blog “The Lede” about online activists’ response to credit card companies and PayPal “blacklisting” Wikileaks. The entry includes the YouTube “manifesto”
An Old Idea Wikileaks has Gotten Me Thinking About Again
I have been sitting on a thought experiment for some years now. Well, not exactly sitting on it — have written a bit about it
Coming Soon to a Classroom Near You?
Some rambling thoughts on a fascinating set of articles about measuring teaching. Today’s NYT carried two stories — on on page 1 — about new
Wikileaks and Protecting Your Sources
In the NYT, Alan Cowell wrote today about reactions among diplomats to the WikiLeaks leaks. In the middle of the story we read: A Chinese
FTC Proposes "Do Not Track" Option for Consumer Privacy
The Federal Trade Commission released a preliminary report, “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change,” for public comment today. Among other things, it
From Information Superhighway to Information Metrosystem
The new FTC report on consumer privacy has an interesting graphic in an appendix. It purports to be a model of the “Personal Data Ecosystem.”
