September 2010
August 2010
NYTimes.com Connects With Facebook; Users Must Opt... →
Sorry, guys. This is just way too creepy.
So what kind of sharing are you signing up for if you connect to Facebook and NYTimes.com? From the opt-in screen:
—Name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information you’ve shared with everyone. —E-mail permission (of course, NYTimes.com already has an email address if you’re a registered user but this one has a...
Flash hobbles Android use of BBC iPlayer versus... →
Why am I not surprised?
“But should Mozilla and Opera offer H.264 decoding in future versions of their...”
– Analysis: Royalty-free H.264 may clear way for HTML5 video standard | Macworld
I’m a member of the Napster generation. Unique circumstances back then helped MP3 to become almost a universally accepted format across operating systems and devices seemingly overnight (whereby ‘seemingly overnight’ I...
The Proto-Internet of 1704: The small ways in... →
“Before Wikipedia, before blogs, before comment areas or message boards, before the Internet—hell, before the mass adoption of indoor plumbing—readers were generating valuable content.”
Click the title link to see how!
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
– Dorothy Parker (via wordpainting) (via smoochiemoochie)
From Wikipedia, “Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.”
I do brush my teeth in the morning, but...
Q&A: How Do You Define ‘Privacy Harm’? - Digits -... →
Interview: How do you measure the seemingly unmeasurable? Evidently, there is some precedent.
“In debates about online privacy, one question always seems to crop up: What’s the harm? How can harm come from a breach of privacy if there’s no fraud and the information isn’t used for, say, identity theft? When the only thing that seems to be wrong is a feeling of “creepiness,” what should that...
“Thou must be true to thyself and others
Thou shalt not claim the tweets of...”
– Twitter – The 10 Commandments
