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November 7, 2014

Annotated Tab Pile

Susan Etlinger: What do we do with all this big data? | Talk Video | TED.com. Good talk.

What if Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set? – NYTimes.com. At one level, yeah. But age also kills 100% of its victims. Believe me: I’ve been studying this for many decades.

Why women leave tech: It’s the culture, not because ‘math is hard’ – Fortune. Of course. But women are still taking over. Trust me. We need it, too.

Surveillance Self-Defense | Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications. Important stuff you’ll ignore. Trust me on that too.

Wetmachine » Tales of the Sausage Factory » Intellectual Property, Jewish Ethics, and Aaron Swartz. New angles on several topics.

Beyond Neutrality – Enabling a World of Connected Things. Start with stuff.

Wearables and Quantified Self Demand Security-First Design | WIRED. Which we’ll need, lest we be hacked.

Verizon Wireless injects identifiers that link its users to Web requests | Ars Technica. Secret slogan: “Okay, be evil. Whatever.”

Don’t punch the monkey. Embrace the Badger. One of Don Marti’s good ones.

Identity as a weapon. T.Rob thinking well and deeply.

Promise Theory — What Is It? | Linux Journal. Never heard of it before, which is a good thing. Read on.

N.C.A.A. Fan Map: How the Country Roots for College Football – NYTimes.com. Brilliant. Please dig.

Webcasting Rate Proposals for 2016-2020 Now Public — What Will The Copyright Royalty Board Be Considering in Setting Royalty Rates for Internet Radio? | Broadcast Law Blog. This will affect your music streaming listening. For example…

Taylor Swift and the Economics of Music as a Service. A harbinger of things to come. Here’s the thing: streaming is getting to be how most of us use music. It pays the artist shit, and it costs the streamers more dearly than ever. But there’s an answer:

EmanciPay – Project VRM. I can think of no other way. Maybe the world will come around to seeing the wisdom of this approach.

Airwave Auction Set For 2016: FCC – Business Insider. Auctioning spectrum is like auctioning colors or insisting the world is a cone. But normative, so there ya go.

Akamai PLXsert’s Q3 2014 State of the Internet Report – The Akamai Blog. Always interesting.

Why Podcasting Is Bigger Than You Think – Edison Research. Huge, in fact. Bigger than most radio stations.

State of the Internet | Brought to you by Akamai Always interesting and useful.

Passwords are Obsolete — Medium Always have been. Now we need to prove it with pudding.

FBI — Going Dark: Are Technology, Privacy, and Public Safety on a Collision Course? Always were.

How Google can unlock a trillion-dollar opportunity while improving search relevance —Tech News and Analysis Like they need the money.

Samir Saran: The ITU and Unbundling Internet Governance – Council on Foreign Relations Context: the ITU is about telecom, not Internet. Just remember that.

Never say never: why TV networks are suddenly ready to unbundle — Tech News and Analysis. Well, not really. Some of them, a little. But unbundling is inevitable. The questions are when and how.

The latest malvertising incident and why you should care. Lots of ads online are personal now. And they’re not all about giving you a “better experience.”

On monopolies: Thiel, Tirole and Tolstoy | Andrew McAfee. Always provocative, Andy is.

32 Cities Back Municipal Broadband Initiative | Multichannel. With many more to come.

Co-founder of Maine sanctuary for elephants, killed in pen, apparently fell and was stepped on – The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram. He was an Awesome Foundation awardee, which is why I include it here. Sad story.

The New York Times thinks only the rich should profit from crowdfunding | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Sherwood Neiss, Crowdfund Capital Advisors. Interesting angle.

Law is Code: A Software Engineering Approach to Analyzing the United States Code by William P. Li, Pablo Azar, David Larochelle, Phil Hill, Andrew W. Lo :: SSRN. David is a Berkman colleague. Good work there.

SSRN-id2511947.pdf. The full text of the above.

Help EFF Test Privacy Badger, Our New Tool to Stop Creepy Online Tracking | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Good hack, and open source. Give it a whirl.

Eisenhower’s military-industrial warning rings truer than ever | Technology | The Observer. And it’s been ever for a long time already, which means things are now extra extra bad.

Elon Pew Future of the Internet Survey Report: Killer Apps, Gigabit Net by 2025? I’m in there somewhere.

National Overview – September 2014 | Average Temperature Anomalies | State of the Climate | National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). More for the deniers to deny.

Barnes & Noble to Leave the Bronx After 15 Years – NYTimes.com. Our local B&N b gone.

Dahr Jamail | As Casualties Mount, Scientists Say Global Warming Has Been “Hugely Underestimated”. More un-fun with stats.

Men’s Basketball: Dwight Durante Was a 5-8 Sensation | Catawba College Athletics. I watched this guy destroy other teams, back in the decade. Amazing player. He was the best 3-point shooter in a time when all those shots were still worth only 2 points.

The UNC fake class investigation and the “the myth of the student-athlete” – The Washington Post. Hard lessons for a good school.

Goodbye, Organization Man – NYTimes.com. He’s actually been gone for a long time.

As Online Viewing Soars, Internet TV Will Soon Be the Only TV | WIRED. Which I’ve been saying for years. But the inevitable seems to be approaching asymptotically.

The north pole moved to the North Pole in a single human lifetime | Ars Technica. They do that. Bonus link.

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