"Wozniak didn't offer much in the way of specifics . . . . [but said, 't]he more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the ...

" ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, b...

(1) "Who Are My Sycophants?"; and (2) "Of Whom Am I on the Brink of Becoming Categorized as a Sycophant?"

Telecomix seems perhaps to be a subset of We Rebuild, or a term associated with certain news and other functions? Among other efforts, Tele...

If you had any remaining doubt as to whether and how much this is happening, wonder no more. Two projects have shown that Comcast and Road ...

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the world’s most comprehensive datab...

[Scroll down to THOUGHTS for the case for Wiklieaks.] Fwiw, in general, my fave institutional sources at present are Greg Mitchell's bl...

First, let me refer you to Greg Mitchell's blog at The Nation , the excellent UK Guardian , and Foreign Policy 's Wikileaked blog ....

. . . per CBS News .

is f---ing with my blogger interface. They eliminated a lot of buttons and replaced part of the interface, and the new part no longer conne...

For some years, I've used Clusty as my primary search engine, because supposedly they don't track your keystrokes, etc.; i.e., maybe...

Electronic Frontier Foundation has a helpful article analyzing the changes, which FB is promoting as giving users more control over who has ...

I understand that, until recently, it's been at least theoretically possible to use Google yet prevent the company from tracking all you...

Per Slashdot , Amazon's method calls for "'programmatically substituting synonyms into . . . books, short stories, . . . review...

Per Wired , 22-year-old programmer Aaron Swartz has been investigated by the FBI because the Government Printing Office experimented with of...

Great article at ReadWriteWeb, " What Facebook Quizzes Know About You ": " [M]illions of Facebook users taking quizzes are re...

" Vanish is a research [?] system designed to give users control over [their] . . . personal data stored on the web or in the cloud. S...

Stick it out 'til at least 1:06 min. (Thanks, Paula!)

Just makin' sure you all saw this: "Bozeman City, Montana now asks all applicants for jobs to 'Please list any and all, current...

here . Name Unofficially Denton Location Denton, TX Web [ Police Mugshots (working title)|Spring 2009 ] Bio The unofficial Denton Mugsho...