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Transparency or Cyberstupidity?

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Tue, Mar 2, 2010

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It’s clear that the coming years will present major tests for security on the internet. We’ll also likely see further debate about privacy and First Amendment issues online, with personal data, intellectual property and child pornography topping the laundry list of concerns. But in the wake of the attack on Google in China, let’s start [...]

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Heavy Rain and the Great PS3 FAIL

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Mon, Mar 1, 2010

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I’m not much of a gamer. Like many others, I bought a Playstation 3 because it was the cheapest Blu-Ray player on the market. The fact that I can play Grand Theft Auto on it is basically icing. That said, I do tend to stay abreast of developments in gaming. Basically, I’ve just been waiting [...]

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Is Online Obscurity Better Than Popularity?

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Thu, Feb 25, 2010

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I read an article in last month’s WIRED that I meant to talk about here but kept forgetting to. It’s about how people’s idea of social networks is to grow them to epic proportions as a sign of their digital worth. Yet bigger isn’t always better online. Maybe you have more “followers” than your peers [...]

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Corporate Persons are Jerks

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sun, Feb 14, 2010

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Here’s a pictoral follow-up to yesterday’s analysis of the SCOTUS campaign finance decision. From BigFatWhale:

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From Pampers to Thongs: When the Bottom Falls Out on Media Literacy

Posted by Norton on Thu, Feb 11, 2010

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Education reform would appear to be the next Obama administration effort to clean up another Bush-league mess — in this case, the educator-and-student-detested “No Child Left Behind” program. Susan Engel’s New York Times Op-Ed outlines priorities in curriculum, namely the core skills a person needs to help them learn rather than the regurgitation of mandated [...]

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