June 2013
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2013_06_30 Link Pile
The world As Istanbul Protests Continue: “Lider” as “Führer,” a Frequent Characterization, by Stephen Lewis in Bubkes.org. Also Gezi Park: Street Vendors, Vanishing Roots of Urban Economies and Urban Democracy. New Regulations for Skype and Viber in Bahrain. By Amira Al Hussaini in Global Voices Online. Also Egyptians Want to Overthrow the Regime. Surveillance EU… Continue reading
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Some thoughts on the Celtics-Nets trade
I love watching basketball. Loved playing it too, back in the Millennium. I grew up a Knicks fan. In my North Carolina years (’65-’85) I was a fan first of Guilford College (my alma mater), then of the ACC’s Big Four (Carolina, Duke, State and Wake). I have many family connections to Wake, lived in… Continue reading
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West Fork Fire
On my way back to New York from Sydney on Wednesday, while flying east over the San Juan National Forest and the Rio Grande National Forest in southern Colorado, I shot what at first I though was a controlled burn, but later realized was the West Fork Fire. I knew it was a big one… Continue reading
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2013_06_26 Link Pile
3 lessons for newsrooms from UsVsTh3m and The Guardian’s Firestorm project. By Craig Silverman in Poynter. FCC Announces Application Window for New Low PowerFM Stations. By Cody Duncan in Future of Music Coalition. Fact sheet. What’s the ‘Internet of Everything’ worth? $613 billion, Cisco reckons: In 2013, Cisco calculates that companies could produce $613 billion… Continue reading
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2013_06_24 Link Pile
How to value personal data, by Ctrl-Shift World Economic Forum Sharing Economy Position Paper, at Collaborative Consumption Attention Economy vs. Intention Economy, a diagram by Robert Bashor. Also part of The system dynamics of an intention economy. How does GHCQ’s Internet surveillance work? by Ewen MacAskill, Julian Borger, Nick Hopkins, Nick Davies and James Ball… Continue reading
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Aviation vs. Weather
Yesterday we were in Melbourne. Then we flew to Sydney, got some sleep, and caught flights to Auckland, Los Angeles and Newark. Except, we’re not in Newark. A storm there delayed things, and we’re on the ground getting re-fueled at Dulles, near D.C. This kind of thing happens with aviation and weather. That planes fly… Continue reading
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Opposites distract
Just discovered by Antipodr that Bermuda and Perth are antipodes: located at the exact other ends of the Earth from each other. I’m in Melbourne, Australia, which is the antipode of a spot on the h of North Atlantic Ocean on Antipodr’s map. By the end of tomorrow I’ll be back in New York, a couple thousand… Continue reading
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2013_06_20 link pile
The Deteriorata, which parodies The Desiderata, much as The Gluetrain Manifesto parodied The Cluetrain Manifesto. My fave line from another parody, perhaps by the same guy, of the “Markets are conversations” line: “Markets are money.” QR codes aren’t dead yet. By yours truly in Harvard Business Review. I’ll also be keynoting an upcoming iAB thing,… Continue reading
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2013_06_18 Link Pile
Quote of the Day: There is no way to build a mirror world without a network of decentralized cooperating agents. — Phil Windley My keynote talk at KuppingerCole‘s EIC conference in May. (Registration required.) American Customer Satisfaction Index Google’s Loon Project Puts Balloon Technology in Spotlight: Future stratospheric systems could change how the world goes… Continue reading
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2013_06_17 Link Pile
Edward Snowden Q&A with readers at The Guardian. An amazing and historic moment happening, right now. Surveillance blowback, by Bruce Schneier Body scanner ruling could squelch NSA domestic spying: Electronic Privacy Information Center organizes request by leading technologists to halt National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance. They’re trying a novel argument from a 2011 lawsuit. By… Continue reading
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2013_06_16 link pile
NPR on the NSA’s giant data farm. E-Commerce’s Future Is in Creating ‘Swift Guanxi,’ or Personal and Social Rapport, in Science Daily. Good one, especially for providing VRM context. It begins, Despite the reputation of online marketplaces being distant and impersonal, through social technologies such as instant messaging, they can create the sense of personal… Continue reading
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2013_06_14 link pile
Where TIME Lost the Plot on Snowden and Spying Guardian pieces The NSA surveillance fallout should be a turning point for the tech industry, by Dan Gillmor On PRISM, partisanship and propaganda: Addressing many of the issues arising from last week’s NSA stories, by Glenn Greenwald Investigate Booz Allen Hamilton, not Edward Snowden: The firm… Continue reading
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2013_06_13 link pile
Apple beefs up privacy protections in iOS 7. Here’s one reason: iOS 7 users aren’t just consumers; they are customers — of Apple. And, with its finger on the pulse of the market, Apple knows that customers don’t like being tracked like animals. (Note: I’m no fan of silos, and Apple has one here. But… Continue reading
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2013_06_12 link pile
Free customers are more valuable than captive ones, in HBR Big tech firms urge openness on NSA probes, by Craig Timberg and Cecilia Kang Washington Post, in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch National Security FISA Secrecy: Hiding from the American People, by Lauren Weinstein. Maybe this is why the feds are spying on people. A bit… Continue reading
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2013_06_11 link pile
To the internet giants, you’re not a customer. You’re just another user. — Yahoo, Microsoft, Google et al don’t really offer ‘free’ email and it’s naive to expect any form of customer service from them, by John Naughton in The Guardian Monster gas cloud could unveil Milky Way’s black-hole hub, in Physics World. Exclusive Testimony… Continue reading
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Terror as a second or third order effect of personal communication surveillance by governments
Several years ago, during a session at Harvard Law School led by a small group of Google executives, I asked one of those executives about his company’s strategy behind starting services in categories where there was no obvious direct business benefit. The answer that came back fascinated me. It was, “We look for second and… Continue reading
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2013_06_08 link pile
The Buccaneer® – The 3D Printer that Everyone can use! gets nearly 8x the $100k it asked for on Kickstarter When digital marketing gets too creepy, by Michael Schrage in HBR Why Google Reader died and why mobile and social news is replacing it, by Michael Mayday in iTechNews. It’s about RSS and Digg, actually.… Continue reading
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2013_06_06 link pile
Price-gouging cable companies are our latter-day robber barons: Monopolistic cable providers make internet access an unaffordable luxury for tens of millions of Americans, by Heidi Moore in The Guardian. A cool conference I’d like to attend, but probably won’t. How to destroy the future: From the Cuban missile crisis to a fossil fuels frenzy, the… Continue reading
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2013_06_03 link pile
Personal cloud innovation happens at the edges, by Jeff Kramer Gartner Says the Personal Cloud Will Replace the Personal Computer as the Center of Users’ Digital Lives by 2014. A bit aggressive. From March 2012. Photos of Florence, shot from about 25,000 feet up, en route from Newark to Rome via Munich Innovations in Digital… Continue reading
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2013_06_01 link pile
Sell your data to save the economy and your future, by Jaron Lanier, for the BBC Heights of Fancy, by Thomas Leslie, an op-ed in the New York Times. Leslie, “a professor of architecture at Iowa State University, is the author of Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934,” says the new spire on One World Trade Center in… Continue reading