http://ping.fm/T83Y4 and
http://bit.ly/eU0dg3.
Brad
15 February 2011
A strategy
Here is an interesting post: http://bit.ly/eIthsI.
When you surf the web, you can do it better if you have a strategy.
What are you looking for? For me, I am looking for people who have
information I don't have, a point of view I don't have, intelligence I
don't have, or something. They have to be able to communicate to me.
Right now I don't have a goal.
Anyhow, this is one blog I'll subscribe to for awhile at least.
Brad
When you surf the web, you can do it better if you have a strategy.
What are you looking for? For me, I am looking for people who have
information I don't have, a point of view I don't have, intelligence I
don't have, or something. They have to be able to communicate to me.
Right now I don't have a goal.
Anyhow, this is one blog I'll subscribe to for awhile at least.
Brad
14 February 2011
Spy versus spy
A lot of this has happened in the US, so you may not have heard the
story, which proceeded in steps...
1) Wikileaks gets and publishes US Federal Government cables
2) Paypal, and, as I recall, VISA and Mastercard, deny payments to
Wikileaks
3) Anonymous, an organization of computer hackers, decides this is an
attack on freedom of information
(http://bit.ly/hmEwMn)
4) Anonymous hacks Paypal, VISA, Mastercard websites
5) Chambers of Commerce, US I think, who are usually sleepy inactive
little organizations, decide to attack
Anonymous
6) They hire a security firm called HBGary (http://bit.ly/hCQWW9)
7) The Feds close in on Anonymous and/or their contacts, shutting at
least part of their of operations down
8) Anonymous gets wind of the Chambers of Commerce-HBGary
negotiations and publishes that
9) More to follow??
Brad
story, which proceeded in steps...
1) Wikileaks gets and publishes US Federal Government cables
2) Paypal, and, as I recall, VISA and Mastercard, deny payments to
Wikileaks
3) Anonymous, an organization of computer hackers, decides this is an
attack on freedom of information
(http://bit.ly/hmEwMn)
4) Anonymous hacks Paypal, VISA, Mastercard websites
5) Chambers of Commerce, US I think, who are usually sleepy inactive
little organizations, decide to attack
Anonymous
6) They hire a security firm called HBGary (http://bit.ly/hCQWW9)
7) The Feds close in on Anonymous and/or their contacts, shutting at
least part of their of operations down
8) Anonymous gets wind of the Chambers of Commerce-HBGary
negotiations and publishes that
9) More to follow??
Brad
The political economy of revolution
This is Robert H. Frank's review of Kuran's book Private Truths,
Public Lies: http://bit.ly/gZnPRm.
Frank is a behavioral economist from Cornell. Kuran is an economist
from Duke. Kuran popularized the concept of preference falsification,
which is the idea that people in a public setting often don't tell the
truth.
It sounds childishly simple, but it helps explain why revolutions can
strike unexpectedly. I suppose it might explain why revolutions might
spread too.
Brad
Public Lies: http://bit.ly/gZnPRm.
Frank is a behavioral economist from Cornell. Kuran is an economist
from Duke. Kuran popularized the concept of preference falsification,
which is the idea that people in a public setting often don't tell the
truth.
It sounds childishly simple, but it helps explain why revolutions can
strike unexpectedly. I suppose it might explain why revolutions might
spread too.
Brad
06 February 2011
How to be somewhat happier
by Oliver Burkeman here: by Oliver Burkeman here: http://bit.ly/i1aZmS.
Different, funny and interesting.
Brad
Different, funny and interesting.
Brad
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