Tuesday, June 11, 2013

The Message and the Meta of Practicing Safer Communication:

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ProPublica publishes an interesting. Overview of maintaining privacy, where possible, on your communications.  http://www.propublica.org/art...

Yep, Data, Nothing But 'Big Data' and the Protection of Democracy the Imperfekt

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In their timely book, ‘Big Data,’ by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier, looks at the growth and future of mega-number crunching, a...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Folks, Face Reality: 'Big Data' is here to stay

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PEN, ProPublica- I love y'all. But how can we lash the US government for tracking info and data on phone calls that can be used as a sou...
Saturday, June 8, 2013

Hannah Arendt, a film by Margarethe Von Trotta

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From iconoclast to icon, Hannah Arendt was an unyielding political theorist who experienced detention in a wartime prison camp in Europe, bu...
Friday, June 7, 2013

American Hypocrisy: Cool for Cash, Not for Security

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Once again the overripe hoopla on all sides regarding the NSA data mining makes one wonder, why is it ok for Facebook or Google to reap bill...

Fighting on the Border

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Photo by Danielle Moghadam On a field trip to Druse villages in the north, witnessing fighting between Syrian rebels and Syrian gove...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

The U.S. Government is Listening? Who isn't? The Paradox of Freedom

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The Guardian's article revealing widespread recording of domestic and international Verizon communications by the US National Security A...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Roses in June from the Waldorf Court Garden

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Born in the (40s, 50s, 60s): Depression and Suicide Rates Climb

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The Washington Post looks at climbing suicide rates among the post-WW 2 baby boom generations and tries to assess why, here The article a...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Signs & Symbols: Adorable 'Cheerios' Ad Sparks Racist Backlash

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A Cheerios commercial featuring an interracial couple sparked such a vicious racism-fuelled backlash on YouTube that the comments section on...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

'Love, It's the Wind': Obscure Boomer Music for a Thursday

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The Wind (written by Bob Bruno) performed by Circus Maximus, an obscure gem from 1967. Circus Maximum, recorded on the Vanguard label, f...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

The Global Web: Air Travel and the Dynamics of Human Geography

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Michael Markieta's images depicting flight paths across the planet. There are currently more than 58,000 flight paths criss-cr...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Remember

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Sunday, May 26, 2013

The Ultimate Human Digital Divide

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 "..information and information technologies will never allow us to escape  the demands of our bodies,our institutions and the times in...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

"Things Have Changed"

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