We’ve had a Facebook page for some time, but now we’ve got our own vanity URL! You may have noticed Facebook’s new feature that allows everything from big companies to lowly blogs […]
S&R – now on Facebook
At the request of Lara Amber, the most bright young lady you see in our better comment threads from time to time, we have established a new Scholars & Rogues Facebook page. […]
Privacy vs. technology, freedom vs. convenience: it’s only going to get worse
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 […]
Privacy as you know it is dead–but you can bring it back

By Martin Bosworth I have little to say about the Kabuki theater that is Elliot Spitzer’s fall from grace, so aptly summed up is the situation by my man Motherwell over here. […]
Social networking: the next generation
Have you ever noticed how social networks don’t do a very good job of representing how our personal networks actually function? Sure, places like Facebook and MySpace and LinkedIn have their utility, […]
A vision of students today: the out-of-touch geezer perspective
Our friend Ubertramp sent along this little video, which certainly provides food for thought: There’s much to empathize with here.
Investment as usual: Microsoft, Facebook and the strategy of business
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 […]
Quotabull
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 […]
Will OpenSocial help Google reorganize into the first Galactic Empire?

By Martin Bosworth The big news in the tech world this past week was Google’s unveiling of OpenSocial, a set of programming tools that will enable members of multiple social networks to […]