[Update 2013-06-13: See Rick Perlstein’s piece about this on The Nation’s blog. Glenn Greenwald later responded here.] Mark Jaquith’s post
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The default category for posts on this site; the equivalent of “Uncategorized” in a fresh WordPress installation :-).
Privacy Promises and Client-Side Betrayal.
At the end of the post is a list of updates about new client-side betrayals I’ve noticed since this was
Continue readingBeyond App Contests: Playing the Long Game
[I recently found this unpublished draft sitting in my CivicCommons Tumblr account. I’m not sure why I didn’t post it
Continue readingEctoplasmic Security Is Important Too.
Hmmm, wouldn’t that be a “Spirit Guard”? (Or perhaps “Zombie Guard”?) Compound words and hyphenation… two great tastes that go
Continue readingANVC Scalar looks interesting, but isn’t quite open source yet.
ANVC Scalar looks very promising: Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it
Continue readingHow easy is a Morozov-style takedown of Evgeny Morozov?
I just read Evgeny Morozov’s critique of Tim O’Reilly in the Baffler. It misses its mark pretty widely. I know
Continue readingRants.org RSS feed fixed.
The RSS feed for this site is now fixed. Thanks, Gunnar.
Continue readingSomeone designed that on purpose?
At the bottom of this otherwise good article is a little circle with the label “604 Kudos” next to it
Continue readingThat’s one smooth cat.
For some reason, I’ve always liked pictures that manage to capture the mood of music. Perhaps it’s because of the
Continue readingOpenITP Call for Circumvention Tech Grant Proposals (1st round, 2013)
OpenITP’s first round of 2013 project funding is still open for proposals! The deadline for application is 31 March 2013
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