Asking for it (3)
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Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 4 July 2009 There’s nothing like science for giving that objective, white-coat flavoured legitimacy to your prejudices, so it must have been a great day for Telegraph readers when they came across the headline “Women who dress provocatively more likely to be raped, claim scientists”. Ah, scientists. “Women who drink alcohol, [...]
Copyleft Capitalism: GPLv3 & the Future of Software Innovation (1)
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Eben Moglen at IBM Research. More ammo against software patents.
Malcolm is wrong (158)
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I've never written those three words before, but he's never disagreed with Chris Anderson before, so there you go.Free is the name of Chris's new book, and it's going to be wildly misunderstood and widely argued about.The first argument that makes no sense is, "should we want free to be the future?" Who cares if we want it? It is. The second argument that makes no sense is, "how will this new business model support ...
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Rob Sellen said:
I was thinking about the free model just today... this has helped. ;o)
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Gerd Leonhard said:
Totally !
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Nick said:
battle of gurus, i wanna watch it.
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bbebop said:
love gruber's description of how daringfireball is not free. and he forgot to mention the tee shirts which, while not free, are worth the price!
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Rich Apodaca said:
Like all dying industries, the old perfect businesses will whine, criticize, demonize and most of all, lobby for relief. It won't work. The big reason is simple:In a world of free, everyone can play.
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Joakim Jardenberg said:
Seth dyker in i fighten mellan Malcolm Gladwell (http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/07/06/090706crbo_books_gladwell?currentPage=all) och Chris Anderson (http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/06/dear-malcolm-why-so-threatened.html) och det är helt fantastisk läsning från de här tre.
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笑炊 said:
waiting to read for free
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Keith Bossey said:
This is such a huge issue, I'm not sure what to say about it. Seth basically gives away his content, he gets paid to speak, live. Musicians are doing the same thing, as the live concert business is still doing great. You can't really experience live any other way but live. As consultants, I think we are going to realize that a lot of our thinking, our methodologies, will be given away for free and that our source of income will be for those personal interactions, those very customized solutions that are of the moment.
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MichaelMJ said:
Times, they are a changing...
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Tankboy said:
It's on!
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Jarred said:
hear hear. this is what i've been feeling but haven't been able to articulate so simply. the question isn't do we want Free, the question is how do we adapt to Free. the only way to prevent Free is regulation or collusion, each of which would be efforts to protect industries that are more interested in making enormous profits and protecting themselves than in innovating or serving their customers. this is a crisis in some sense, but the largest opportunities for progress come out of crises.
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Colin said:
interesting debate among smart people
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Margus said:
Huvitav seisukoht (millega ma nõustun) Eesti meediakompaniide viimatiste "ärme võrgus paberlehtede uudiseid üldse avalda" tegude valguses
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Erik Ford said:
"People will pay for content if it is so unique they can't get it anywhere else, so fast they benefit from getting it before anyone else, or so related to their tribe that paying for it brings them closer to other people. We'll always be willing to pay for souvenirs of news, as well, things to go on a shelf or badges of honor to share...Like all dying industries, the old perfect businesses will whine, criticize, demonize and most of all, lobby for relief. It won't work. The big reason is simple:In a world of free, everyone can play."
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Bose said:
Excerpt:"People will not pay for by-the-book rewrites of news that belongs to all of us. People will not pay for yesterday's news, driven to our house, delivered a day late, static, without connection or comments or relevance. Why should we? A good book review on Amazon is more reliable and easier to find than a paid-for professional review that used to run in your local newspaper, isn't it?"Absolutely!
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Snowmit said:
The battle about FREE CONTINUES.
Can Open Government Be Gamed? (24)
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If information is power, the first step to gaining power is to get the right data. The Obama administration is a big proponent of opening up government data and making it digitally available. Today at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City, the government’s new chief information officer Vivek Kundra announced USAspending.gov, a new site which launched today that tracks government spending with charts and lists ranking the largest government contractors (Lockheed, Boeing, Northrop ...
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Brian Wilson said:
Despite the moves towards opening up government the Obama Administration has made, it seems that the lobbyists still have an edge--but only because they actually care (because their paying clients care).
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Adam said:
Short answer...yes
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Ryan Sholin said:
Erick Schonfeld runs down a small sampling of some of the open government initiatives and data sets coming out of the Obama administration, then says: "Except there is one big problem: indifference. Most people will not do anything with that data. The ones who are most motivated to use the data about to be unleashed are exactly the special interests who run Washington today." Really? Um, I happen to know some journalists who are pretty good with data like this...
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: (Information wants to be free) The New Yorker (10)
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Priced to Sell Is free the future? by Malcolm Gladwell July 6, 2009 Text Size: Small Text Medium Text Large Text Print E-Mail Feeds “In the digital realm you can try to keep Free at bay,” Chris Anderson writes, “but eventually the force of economic gravity will win.” Keywords “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” (Hyperion; $26.99); Chris Anderson; Google; Technology; YouTube; Amazon; Kindle At a hearing on Capitol Hill in May, James Moroney, ...
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Hamish MacEwan said:
Ironic that I'm reading the review Free while Gladwell disputes Anderson's arguments.
Help Protesters in Iran: Run a Tor Bridge or a Tor Relay (10)
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As turmoil over the disputed election in Iran continues, many techs are trying to find ways to help Iranian citizens safely communicate and receive information despite the barriers being established by Iranian authorities. One tactic that even moderately tech-savvy Internet users can employ is to set up a Tor relay or a Tor bridge. More sophisticated users can skip this paragraph, but for the rest, here's the basic outline. Tor (an acronym of "The Onion ...
Google’s Africa Strategy: Search And Trade Via SMS (40)
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Not only does Google want to organize all the world’s information, it also wants to make all that information available to everyone in the world. For the majority of the world’s population, that means making it available on a cell phone, and not a fancy iPhone or Android with a Web browser either. I’m talking about $10 cell phones with not much more than voice and SMS capabilities. If Google can reach people, especially in ...
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Ryan Sholin said:
Fun stuff. The Q & A is most interesting to me -- I wonder if it allows users to mark the "right" answers so they get saved and archived for the next time someone asks that questions.
The Problem with Password Masking (20)
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I agree with this: It's time to show most passwords in clear text as users type them. Providing feedback and visualizing the system's status have always been among the most basic usability principles. Showing undifferentiated bullets while users enter complex codes definitely fails to comply. Most websites (and many other applications) mask passwords as users type them, and thereby theoretically prevent miscreants from looking over users' shoulders. Of course, a truly skilled criminal can simply ...
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Dave said:
Yes, I'm down with this. The number of times I am at risk from a person who can see my screen is trivial. Try typing in, say, the hex code for a wifi access point without being able to see what you are typing. It's horrible.
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Danny Dawson said:
Wait, what? Seriously, Schneier?
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Dan Wallach said:
I disagree with Schneier. Password masking is a great option but it should be easy to turn on and off. My wireless router has a check-box that lets me see or hide my WEP/WPA key as I type it, as does the Mac's WEP/WPA setup. That sort of option should appear elsewhere, allowing the user to decide whether or not shoulder surfing is a concern.
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Damon said:
Meh. I rarely see this cause problems. In cases where it might be a problem (like really long WPA keys) there's usually an option to unmask the password.
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past said:
"Shoulder surfing isn't very common, and cleartext passwords greatly reduces errors. It has long annoyed me when I can't see what I type: in Windows logins, in PGP, and so on."
Mobile Uploads to YouTube Increase Exponentially (27)
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In the last six months, we've seen uploads from mobile phones to YouTube jump 1700%; just since last Friday, when the iPhone 3GS came out, uploads increased by 400% a day. This growth represents three things coming together: new video-enabled phones on the market, improvements to the upload flow when you post a video to YouTube from your phone, and a new feature on YouTube that allows your videos to be quickly and effortlessly shared ...
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Julie Perry said:
More info about playing and creating YouTube videos on your phone at http://www.youtube.com/mobile
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Josh Lewis said:
If you want to make something popular, you can't just make it compelling. Make it easy.
Mochi Media Launching Payments Platform For Flash Games. Early Results Are Stunning (15)
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Mochi Media continues to quietly build out monetization and reporting tools for Flash game developers. In May we reported on the big growth in their ad network - over 100 million people a month now play games that include their ads. You can find their games on big sites like Hi5, RockYou and Meebo. We’ve heard that games that include Mochi Media stats or advertising products are played over 1.5 billion times a month. These ...
How to Cross the Digital Divide, Rwanda-Style (35)
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Whenever I tell someone the countries I’m hitting for my new book, they start out nodding, then the nodding slows, then they just get confused. “China, India, Brazil, Israel and…Rwanda.” Then there’s the inevitable question: “Rwanda? Is there even any technology in Rwanda?” Sometimes I even get asked if I have to stay in a tent when I go there. The answer to the second question is no. There are plenty of hotels, and I ...
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Rahul Gaitonde said:
While I'm thrilled that the IITs have a bit role in helping Rwanda with it's digital infrastructure, I think Sarah Lacy needs to note that IIT != "India" Institute of Technology. Time for a conversation with Asok?
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Devlin D said:
This should be a blueprint for all developing nations. The problem with a lot of these countries though is that it is their governments that actually keep them in poverty.
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Joseph Young said:
The most important paragraph is the one describing how citizens are being sent to IIT instead of the US.
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Hamish MacEwan said:
Structurally separated, open access, Rwanda.
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Brent Bernasconi said:
Rwanda is moving quicker than we are!
Zugara’s Augmented Reality Dressing Room Is Great (31)
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Augmented reality, or the blending of the real world with computer graphics on the fly, is one of the most exciting fields in tech right now. Unfortunately, there haven’t been many practical uses of the technology — we’ve seen some very impressive video game peripherals and a few Terminator-style phone overlays from companies like Layar, Sekai Camera, and Seer Android, but these still have a ways to go before they’ll hit the mainstream. Zugara, an ...
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Gimleteyes said:
Lol!
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Jay said:
Its like Clueless 2.0
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CHC said:
A very cool and practical implementation of augmented reality. The whole concept of Augmented Reality is going to blow up big time in the near future [prophetic finger pointed upwards].
What’s Ghetto? Pushing Digital Album Sales On Twitter (Video) (17)
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If Twitter is good for one thing, it is for promoting whatever it is you have to sell. Some of the best self-promoters out there are rappers, and they’ve taken to Twitter just like every other type of celebrity. Just as Twitter can drive traffic to Websites, it can also drive music sales on iTunes. On a panel at the 140 Characters Conference yesterday, Xavier Jernigan (@xjernigan, the director of digital marketing at Universal Motown ...
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Wayne Lewis said:
The Power of twitter just gets bigger and better.
TwilioBot: Bringing Phone Conversations into Waves (21)
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Evan is Co-Founder and CTO of Twilio and he shares his experience building twiliobot on the Google Wave API.One of the powerful features of Google Wave is the ease with which developers can integrate it with existing APIs. Lars and Stephanie demonstrated several Wave extensions that leverage other APIs such as Mappy using the Google Maps API and Rosy using the Google Language API. At the Post-I/O hackathon, I used the Twilio API to extend ...
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"When a user adds twiliobot to a wave, the robot automatically finds and transforms the phone numbers in that wave into click-to-call links. When a user clicks a link, a call is placed to the user's cell phone or landline and to the phone number in the link and the two are connected. The subsequent phone conversation can then be recorded, transcribed, and automatically inserted into the wave as text with a link to the audio of the conversation."
The Outlet Wall concept is true wall wart nirvana (94)
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David Friedman's Ironic Sans blog is full of great ideas, but never have we been in such desperate need of rapid implementation as this Outlet Wall. We'd say the idea is pretty self-explanatory, making an art out of plugging in devices instead of fussing with a hidden tangle of cords and powerstrips on the floor -- we've lost many a friend and family member to the wilds behind our entertainment center. As David points out: ...
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jenna said:
Ok. This is kind of awesome.
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Trace W said:
I think I really like this. Not sure if I have the energy to take on a project of this magnitude. Plus, there is always the wife's opinion that would come into play too.
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Cory said:
If I were an interior decorator, this is how the whole world would look!
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Matt said:
Love it. (Via Meredith)
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iZ said:
Genius!!!
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Jon said:
clever
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Bill Blaney said:
I LIKE. Maybe in my future man-cave
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James said:
Awesome.
First 'anti-stab' knife to go on sale in Britain - Times Online (52)
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The first “anti-stab” knife is to go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen but to be ineffective as a weapon.
Some Quotes Of Note: Polticians Damning New Technologies/Cultural Artifacts (14)
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In my post earlier about Rep. Robert Wexler's misguided remarks at the World Copyright Summit, an anonymous commenter added a wonderful comment highlighting similar politically misguided sayings throughout the years that was too good not to share. The anonymous commenter didn't say where it's from, but it appears that it was mostly from a Wired article from a few years ago. So, one could make an argument that the original comment was infringing, but aren't ...
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simonfl said:
That darn Waltz. Destroying society.
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