Doc Searls Weblog

Mind-bendings

• How many slaves work for you?
• A brand new way to share everything.
• Why you can’t get tickets to the hottest concerts.

World

• 15 Photos From the Tahrir Square Protests You’ll Never See In Legacy Media. #Egypt #Morsi #Obama. By Doug Ross @ Journal.
• Taksim Underpass: Ask Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Parker, Jane Jacobs, and Robert Moses. By Stephen Lewis in Bubkes.

Surveillance

• Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NSA’s surveillance state? By Ezra Klein in the Washington Post.
• Motorola Is Listening. By Ben Lincoln in Beneath the Waves.
• America’s founders would be horrified at this United States of Surveillance: How did we become so fearful and timid that we’ve given away essential liberties? Some are even afraid to speak up. By Dan Gillmor in The Guardian.
• AT&T prepping sale of customers’ anonymous location information and Web, app usage data. By Mike Dano in FierceWireless.
• Privacy and the Internet The Independence Day Edition. In Raving Lunacy.
• European PRISM anger gains momentum with fresh cloud warnings and data threats. By David Meyer in Gigaom.
• From Ike to “The Matrixâ€: Welcome to the American dystopia — Part Orwellian security state, part Huxley wonderland and part “Matrix,” America is three dystopias in one! By Andrew O’Hehir in Salon.

News

• BBC to put 3D production on hold following unsuccessful two-year pilot. By Zach Honig in Engadget.

Life

• Review of Doug Rushkoff’s Present Shock. By Micah Sifry, in Tech President.
• The Death of the Internet – Markus Jacobsson. By Ben Rothke in RSA Conference blog.
• I give up. Repeal Everything. By David Weinberger.

Developments

• Fargo River
• Midata Innovation Lab Launches, at Ctrl-Shift.
• Personal Cloud London Meet-up: Thursday, July 11, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (BST)
• Firefox mobile device.

Marketing and advertising

• FTC’s Brill Calls for Congress to Legislate New Data Privacy, Stuns Marketers: Commissioner Wants Data Brokers to De-Identify Data And Provide Access to Consumers. By Kate Kaye in AdAge.
• Why AARP Is Adding Data Strategy to Marketing Efforts: A Q&A with Lynn Mento, Senior VP-Membership at AARP. By Kate Kaye in AdAge.
• This Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting: New School Student’s System Confuses Ad Targeting With Cookie Misinformation. By Kate Kaye in AdAge.