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VRM, Privacy, Personal Clouds

• Amazing ads by The Guardian in New York subways
  • Keep out of my stuff — the ad itself
  • Results: #VoiceYourView
  • Guardian begins American ad campaign, in the NY Times
  • Out to Launch, in Mediapost
  • The Guardian aims to turn heads, by Jessica Haas
  • Work to be proud of, by Canteen
  • Why we do this by #WeTheData
• Bruce Schneier on surveillance, points to this Neil Richards abstract
• Don Marti on the targeting game
• Suicide by cookies, by George Simpson in Media Daily News (oldie but goodie)
• Letting down our guard on Web privacy, by Somini Sengupta in the NY Times
• Why It’s Important For Each Of Us To Explain And Keep Explaining The Net And Its Civil Liberties by Rick Falkvinge in Torrent Freak
• Also by Rick, Debunking the dangerous “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear and Sweden, Paradise Lost: Part 3 — Sweden holds DNA database of everybody under 38

Outlining, programming, business

• Introducing Google Fiber Poles, in Google Fiber
• Dave Winer on The soul of the new developer
• Dave’s on the Web team
• Beware the lure of Mark Zuckerberg’s cool capitalism, by Nick Cohen in The Observer/Guardian

Marketing

• As ad rates sink, more websites explore ad-free business, by Matthew Creamer in Ad Age
• Andrew Sullivan, the prime example
• Creating an engaging and interactive rich social Web experience, by IBM

Journalism

• April Fools roundup on TNW
• The creepiest April 1 Web page? by Dave Winer
• NPR’s Talk of the Nation ends, replaced by Here and Now from WBUR, in RadioInk
• Arrogance By Proxy: One Media Elite Plays Embarrassingly To Type, by Bob Garfield in MediaPost
• State of the News Media, 2013
• Local TV following print’s path
• The last two via Terry Heaton and Confidently facing Chaos

Not yet classified

• Tom Agan in the NY Times on Why Innovators Get Better With Age
• The Overview Effect, by Richard Branson