January 4th, 2007
There was a bit of a flap about privacy today, though I’m not sure how many people noticed it: according to some newspaper and television reports, a signing statement attached to a Postal Reform bill signed by President Bush in late December may have created a mechanism allowing the government to open first-class mail without […]
January 4th, 2007
In case it matters to you, I did not watch the video of Saddam’s execution — nor do I intend to. But after mulling the situation over for the past couple of days, I’ve come to a contrarian conclusion: it was probably a good thing, and we should encourage more examples of it.
I realize that […]
January 2nd, 2007
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry entitled “Iraq and Web 2.0,” and suggested that we might be better informed if we pursued grass-roots Web 2.0-style sources of inforrmation, rather than top-down, controlled channels of information from mainstream news media and official government statements.
The events of the past few days have demonstrated that, […]
January 1st, 2007
An article on TechCrunch (”Wikipedia Bans Qatar“) caught my attention this evening, so I followed the conveniently provided link to see what Wikipedia had to say about the situation.
The problem, it seems, is that Qatar has only one ISP that provides high-speed Internet access; and that effectively means every Internet user in the country shares […]
