Category Archives: Technology

inessential.com – Fantastical and language detection

That is prac­ti­cally the def­i­n­i­tion of great soft­ware, caus­ing your users delight in the every­day workings.

TED.com – Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)

Clay Shirky deliv­ers a clear and cogent his­tory and expla­na­tion of PIPA/SOPA, walk­ing through through both the intent and what the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of the bill and how it changes the entire legal sys­tem under which web­sites operate.

Electronic Frontier Foundation – The Internet at its Best

EFF high­lights some of the largest sites that par­tic­i­pated in the SOPA/PIPA blackout.

O’Reilly Radar – The President’s challenge

The idea that we’ll be able to go back in time and make it harder for peo­ple to get dig­i­tal information/media/anything is just wrong.

Mike’s Lookout – SPDY of the Future Might Blow Your Mind Today

The pic­tures pro­vide a really good sense of what is going on.

O’Reilly Radar – The end of social

The more we share the less value each piece of infor­ma­tion has to the peo­ple (but not the sys­tems) that we share to.

life and times of sha.ddih – Why wireless mesh networks won’t save us from censorship

This is a really com­pelling argu­ment as to why unplanned wire­less mesh net­works won’t work at scale.