World going to hell
- Edward Snowden’s not the story. The fate of the internet is. “The press has lost the plot over the Snowden revelations. The fact is that the net is finished as a global network and that US firms’ cloud services cannot be trusted.” By John Naughton in The Guardian.
- The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say). By James Bamford in Wired, published in March, 2012.
- PRISM as a windfall for non-U.S. cloud providers, by Barb Darrow in Gigaom.
- Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords. “Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form.” By Declan McCullagh in CNet.
- Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought. By Todd Woody in Quartz.
As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Public-Key Encryption. By Lauren Weinstein. - Everything wrong with America in one simple image. By Justin Rosario in Addictive Info.
Tech
- Forward motion with RSS, by Dave. The idea is to build new interop.
- Pinterest Allows Users to Opt Out of Being Tracked. By Nick Bilton in The New York Times.
- Almost half of Australians give false data to websites as a privacy precaution. By Steven Raeburn in The Drum.
- HAARP ionospheric research program set to continue. By Brian Dodson in Gizmag.
- Cord Cutters: A first look at Google’s Chromecast video streaming adapter. By Janko Roettgers in GigaOm. Also, Why Chromecast is such a big deal for Google, and a threat to Apple.
- The Expanding Irrelevance of Microsoft, by Barry Ritholtz in The Big Picture
Marketing (public notes toward a piece I’ll be putting up in Linux Journal… also a podcast)
- The agency holding company model is dead — welcome to the ‘marketing stack‘. By Jon Ebbert in Ad Exchanger.
- This INSANE Graphic Shows How Ludicrously Complicated Social Media Marketing Is Now. By Charlie Menato in Business Insider.
Etc.
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