Category: Newsletter

  • Keeping Privacy and Knowledge In Balance

    Keeping Privacy and Knowledge In Balance

    I’ve decided to try changing up the format to the newsletter on a more regular basis. I want to try new things with the layout and the conversational tone of the newsletter. If you love or hate my new format experiments, let me know! It’s really hard to care about privacy. Do you even take…

  • This Week in Web #43

    This Week in Web #43

    If Diamonds Are Forever, Your Data Could Be, Too Joanna Klein, NYT There’s a lot of discussion about archiving the web, and the problems that arise from link-rot. Maybe diamonds are the answer? Scientists have been experimenting with storing data in diamonds, and are currently able to store about 100 DVDs worth of information into…

  • This Week in Web #42

    This Week in Web #42

    From liberal beacon to a prop for Trump: what has happened to WikiLeaks? david Smith, The Guardian WikiLeaks has been publishing dump after dump of private emails from Hillary Clinton, her campaign chairman John Podes, and others who have emailed them. The newsworthiness of some of the emails is undeniable, just as the non-newsworthiness of…

  • This Week in Web #41

    This Week in Web #41

    The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on the value of design patents in the Apple-Samsung hearing Tuesday Ina Fried, Recode Samsung has already had a trying few months, what with Galaxy Note 7’s being replaced after battery meltdowns, Then those replacement phones also catching fire, and finally the company being forced to recall both…

  • This Week in Web #40

    This Week in Web #40

    As I’m writing this week’s newsletter, WordCamp Orlando has been cancelled, which threw off a lot of planning by a dedicated team. Hurricane Matthew is bearing down, and I’m planning for some time without internet. If anything big happens in the world, be sure to let me know when I’m back. Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned…

  • This Week in Web #39

    This Week in Web #39

    Software and Terms of Service Control Ownership You don’t own the things that you pay for if those things are based around software. Nowadays, that is describing more and more things. HP has caused a minor uproar with a new update for their Office Jet line of printers, which included a DRM lock which is…

  • This Week in Web #38

    This Week in Web #38

    Allo, allo. What’s all this chatter about then? Look, if I can use a chat app and immediately start sending gif stickers of a twerking bull to someone, I will. If that isn’t entertaining enough, I can send beans wearing condoms, entreating you to “Rubber Up!”, or some kind of… pig monster maybe? asking you…

  • This Week in Web #37

    Ed Snowden’s Chance for Clemency is Closing Edward Snowden has taken refuge in Russia for over three years, ever since leaking millions of documents worth of proof of illegal activity on part of the US Government. He has stated his wish to return to the United States if he The Oliver Stone biopic, ‘Snowden’, hits…

  • This Week in Web #36

    This Week in Web #36

    Google’s Clever Plan to Stop Aspiring ISIS Recruits Andy Greenberg, Wired Google is finding another way to use it’s powerful and omnipresent search system for good. Chat services have been outright banning people who post in support of ISIS, even if they are the most popular YouTuber. Now Jigsaw, a team formerly known as Google…

  • This Week in Web #35

    Facebook fires human editors, algorithm immediately posts fake news Annalee Newitz, ArsTechnica Facebook took heed of the critics who said that their human editors brought bias to the trending newsfeed. Last week they replaced all of their human editors with an algorithm that sorts based on the most discussed stories on the platform. Big surprise,…

  • This Week in Web #34

    This Week in Web #34

    Happy Birthday Internet! Happy Birthday Web! Several Notable birthdays occurred this week. The World Wide Web celebrated its 25th anniversary on Tuesday. Yesterday marked the 25th birthday of the Linux Foundation as well. The first test of wireless networking and protocols from ARPAnet that would become the Internet were conducted 40 years ago tomorrow. The…

  • This Week in Web #33

    This Week in Web #33

    We Need to Make Digital Data That Dies Like Us Michael Byrne, Motherboard There are a lot of services that cater to those who want to have a final say in their digital lives. Is deleting that data on demand the best option? It’s a task that is sudden and abrupt, final and absolute. This…