#IGF2014 notes- Google Big Tree event with Vint Cerf and a panel afterwards #FHDel I was a pleasure to see Mr. Cerf and he opened up with his adovacy for open internet. Unfortunately he later angered most of us by stating that “some countries need time for open internet” and he kind of whitewhashed … Read more
Snowden reveals US intelligence?s black budget Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden leaked the government?s ?black budget? for fiscal year 2013 to The Washington Post How to Use the New Facebook Insights Do you rely on Facebook Insights to track the performance of your Facebook page? Are you wondering how the new Insights … Read more
New Archive Makes Available 800,000 Pages Documenting the History of Film, Television & Radio Click images for larger versions Film buffs and scholars have a new cache at their fingertips. The Media History Digital Library has made hundreds of thousands of pages of film and broadcasting history available in a searchable digital archive they?ve called … Read more
Good and bad reasons to be worried about WCIT from …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT, pronounced ?wicket?) opened Monday in Dubai. If you?re heard about the conference, it?s likely because many articulate and smart proponents of an open internet have been waving arms and warning of the … Read more
U.S. Still Requests More Google User Data Than Any Other Country from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick Alan Turing?s 100th: 12 Celebratory Images From Across the Web from Mashable! by Allegra Tepper HOWTO think like Alan Turing from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow In early celebration of the Turing centenary this week, Ars Technica’s Matthew Lasar … Read more