The only people who stand to benefit from clearly defined limits on how your personal data is handled (or pay the price) are you and I; a shambling horde – disorganized and charmed at the moment by the first of the two possible narratives.

This is cross posted from O’Reilly Radar
I was struck by this photo that appeared Sunday in the New York Times.  It shows a crowd of Egyptian protesters listening to a military announcement.   Try to count …

In 2008 I delivered a keynote at a conference on law and journalism.  The mood among the journalists present was one of palpable contempt for blogging and “citizen journalism.”  You  would think we were witnessing …

Social technologies are cloaked in a rhetoric of liberation that tend to obscure the fact that never before have we handed so much personal information over in exchange for so little in return.

Cross-post from Radar:
This week gave us two reasons to reconsider the state of broadband connectivity in the US.
First, Finland has announced that it will guarantee broadband access as a right for all its citizens:

Starting next …

Stimuluswatch.org allows citizens to see local government requests for stimulus-spending projects, add details, vote projects up or down and generally discuss the merit of each.  It is a great example of how the Internet lowers …

FDR was our radio president, JFK was our TV president and Barack Obama will be our Internet President.
Quietly at noon yesterday, as the world was fixated on the televised inauguration of Barack Obama, some obscure …