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 US is intent on winning the race to disaster, by Noam Chomsky in The Guardian.
How Patent Trolls Are Undermining The Economy, by Andrea Peterson
Local Laundromat Employs Social Media Coordinator, in The Onion
Datapalooza Report on Data Economics and a Call for Reciprocity, by Adrian Gropper.
CMOs: Build Digital Relationships or Die, by James L. McQuivey in HBR.
Motomic stuff. Thinking of discovery via QR codes and squaretags here.
Privacy Self-Management and the Consent Dilemma, by Daniel Solove in SSRN
Half an Earth sandwich. Euan Semple had the other half, in Singapore.
Blogginess, by Tim Bray
Study shows how easy it is to determine someone’s identity with cell phone data, by Lisa Zyga in Phys.org
New ‘Sun-skirting’ comet could provide dazzling display in 2013, by Nancy Atkinson Phys.org
NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others, by Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill in The Guardian
Wanna get depressed about writing, and much more? Try this: Are coders worth it? In today’s world, web developers have it all: money, perks, freedom, respect. But is there value in what we do?, by James Somers in Aeon.
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