AOL-Huffington merger doomed as I had predicted.
Looks like my prediction that the purchase of Huffington Post by AOL for $315 million was going to kill both companies, a while back on this site, is bearing fruit. As I noted then, AOL was the kiss of...
View ArticleGetting Explosure
A blog that I have plugged before here is IOTW, a smart, funny, topical blog that offers up content on a wide variety of issues, Oh, and Big Fur Hat (the main writer) is one funny dude. Today he...
View ArticlePIPA and SOPA Must Die
Congress seems poised to fuck up the internet, but good. PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. Peter Suderman has a run-down of everything that’s included. The video...
View ArticleChipping Away
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it is a rare politician who truly respects civil liberties. Many of them would burn the Bill of Rights in a second if they could. And in places of the world...
View ArticleGoose Gander Watch
I find myself amused. When I first saw this, I was sure it was from the Onion. The Congress-focused research organization LegiStorm set off a firestorm on Capitol Hill this week as some staffers...
View ArticleThe Bomb Drops
It looks like yesterday’s Verizon story was, as many suspected, the tip of the iceberg: The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S....
View ArticleCameron’s Firewall
British Prime Minister David Cameron is proposing a new firewall on British ISP’s. In addition to blocking material like violent pornography, it will included an “opt in” option for any pornography. If...
View ArticleSlurping up the Googles
We take a break from our regularly scheduled nap to tell you that there is absolutely nothing to worry about with Edward Snowden’s newest revelation: that the NSA is tapping into Google and Yahoo data...
View ArticleThe Battle for the Internet
So, this happened: Russia has taken another major step toward restricting its once freewheeling Internet, as President Vladimir V. Putin quietly signed a new law requiring popular online voices to...
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