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Mark Zuckerberg: Is it time for Facebook's boy genius to go?

by on August 17, 2012 in Business & Finance, Generations

Today’s LA Times asks a good question: Is Mark Zuckerberg in over his hoodie as Facebook CEO? Business writers Walter Hamilton and Jessica Guynn dig into an issue that I suspect some of us have seen before, and it’s remarkable that the clamor over Zuck specifically hasn’t been louder for some time. Should Mark Zuckerberg, the social […]

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Google Glass: Welcome to the end of privacy

by on March 11, 2013 in Business & Finance, Freedom & Privacy, Internet, Telecom & Social Media, Politics, Law & Government, Science & Technology

If you haven’t yet seen Mark Hurst’s piece on Google Glass over at Creative Good, you need to. You really, really need to. A lot of times cool new gadget and service roll-outs mainly just affect the manufacturers and the people with the cash to buy them. Sure, there can be collateral damage – World of […]

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Obama administration needs to take on Facebook and Google: cybersecurity under the COPPA cabana

by on October 4, 2012 in Business & Finance, Family & Marriage, Internet, Telecom & Social Media, Politics, Law & Government

It came to my attention looking through my own Facebook Timeline that children being born right now could very well have their entire lives documented online – from birth, if their parents have accounts and upload photos of them. And it brought up a few thoughts: one, what a colossal bummer it would be to […]

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Facebook's bad year just got worse

by on August 2, 2012 in Business & Finance, Internet, Telecom & Social Media

It’s an interesting time to be Facebook. You know, as in the old Chinese curse “may you live in interesting times.” They’ve been the target of freedom and privacy advocates for some time. All the way back in 2008 I was talking about the company’s anti-privacy tendencies and arguing that things were only going to get […]

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Facebook: the most congenitally dishonest company in America

by on June 26, 2012 in Business & Finance, Crime & Corruption, Internet, Telecom & Social Media

If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” Did you know you have a Facebook email address? Maybe you did and maybe you didn’t. But if you have a Facebook account you have a Facebook email. And that email is now your default email on FB. WTF? […]

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Cigarette sellers and ticket touts: our strange relationship with entrepreneurs

by on June 4, 2012 in Business & Finance, Economy, Education, Freedom & Privacy, Personal Narrative

I am not, ordinarily, afraid of rising early. However, when it is winter and 4am and one of the mizzly-drizzly-dawns where the fine rain settles into every warm crevasse, nestling down and sapping all heat, it better be a good reason. This particular morning I had risen, dressed and driven to the centre of Cape […]

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Politics, the Devil’s Excrement and remaking the 99%

by on November 11, 2011 in Business & Finance, Economy, Freedom & Privacy, Politics, Law & Government

There are still nights when the nightmares take me. I am in the shop I made, standing behind the till. My wares are on the shelves and I wait for customers who never come. I see them passing by the windows, looking in. Their faces, a mixture of curiosity and contempt I dare not interpret. […]

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Issue of pay for bloggers bigger than just Arianna's windfall

by on February 22, 2011 in Journalism

The term “citizen journalism” is not an excuse to withhold pay from bloggers. The Huffington Post has never even made a token attempt at figuring out how to pay bloggers.

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Privacy vs. technology, freedom vs. convenience: it’s only going to get worse

by on March 21, 2008 in Economy, Freedom & Privacy, Internet, Telecom & Social Media, Media & Entertainment, Politics, Law & Government, Science & Technology

Item: Citizens are concerned about online privacy and security. According to a new report from USC’s Center for the Digital Future, “Sixty-one percent of adult Americans said they were very or extremely concerned about the privacy of personal information when buying online, an increase from 47 percent in 2006. Before last year, that figure had […]

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Investment as usual: Microsoft, Facebook and the strategy of business

by on November 10, 2007 in Business & Finance, Economy, Internet, Telecom & Social Media, Media & Entertainment, Science & Technology

When Windows Vista was released earlier this year it was greeted by yawns and much boredom. Dell and other hardware retailers declared that users were demanding that they keep their existing operating system range. Microsoft, with so much invested, must have been somewhat nonplussed. Open-source fans (and Apple, at the other end of the spectrum) […]

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Quotabull

by on November 7, 2007 in Business & Finance, Politics, Law & Government, War & Security

There were periods when I didn’t think that. Are things ever going to settle down? When is some normalcy going to settle in in your life? It never really does. — Vietnam War veteran Mike Kentes, who attended the Nov. 13, 1982, dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, says he believes he is better for […]

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