What to Watch for on Election Night
Here’s another post on how to go to bed early on election night satisfied that you know the outcome. Of course this won’t work if the election is really close… Read more »
Category: Politics
Did Science Fiction Predict the NSA Debate?
The idea is that a corporation or government agency could influence public opinion by using computer programs to flood the social networks with comments. In Cory Doctorow’s recent novel Homeland,… Read more »
Lord North needed the NSA
In a hilarious but disturbing article in Slate Kieran Healy demonstrates how the sort of “metadata” that Verizon (and presumably every other phone company) is required to turn over to… Read more »
Megan McArdle on the Newtown Killings
I usually look to Megan McArdle for sensible well-informed financial commentary. She’s willing to tell people things that they don’t want to hear–a valuable trait in a financial writer. Now… Read more »
More thoughts on Orca
Everyone seems to be jumping on the story of the Romney campaign’s “Orca” debacle. But it seems to me that this is not really a new story. It’s a story… Read more »
The Romney campaign’s great IT failure
Ars Technica has a great analysis of “Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown.” Regardless of your political views, if you are involved in any large IT project this is… Read more »
What to watch for on Election Night
As Election Day approaches it looks like a pretty tight race. The polls tend to favor President Obama but his lead is usually within the margin of error. A lot… Read more »
Presidential Candidate Phone Apps Threaten Privacy
A word to the wise: before you download that smartphone app for your favorite candidate you should read The Register: Don’t download that app: US presidential candidates will STALK you… Read more »
This is the world we will live in if net neutrality fails
In his post on net neutrality, Otaku-kun includes an image that is so hilarious (an unfortunately so plausible) that I couldn’t resist copying it:
FTC Blogging Guidelines
The new FTC blogging guidelines are supposedly intended to go after the big commercial astroturfing campaigns, where publicity agencies pay large number of bloggers and tweeters to push commercial products…. Read more »