This morning I read the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Lopez Torres, holding that New York State's obviously manipulated state judicial nominating conventions are constitutional under the First Amendment.
As Justice Kennedy's concurring opinion (p.4) cautions:
The power of simple graphics on the Web is hard to beat.
Annie Leonard's The Story of Stuff lays out what's at stake for consumers if they choose wisely, poorly or let others choose for them.
I've been reading through a study of Google's patents prepared by Stephen Arnold entitled Google Version 2.0: The Predator.
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Board of Elections v. Lopez Torres.
Thomas Friedman's NY Times article today Marching with a Mouse provides vivid tribute to the financial market power of transparent accountability.
Most days the Web seems about "buy, buy, buy" or "sell, sell, sell." Many a Web tourist peers through a Web-content window, framed by a virtual (and invasive) Times Square-like advertising zipper, stalking their online prey like sidewalk barkers of olden days.
I miss Zero Mostel. I wonder how he'd use laughter to ponder and probe our Web World of today and tomorrow, and how Zero would raise concerns about the Web's privacy protections. But that's a blog for another day...
This morning I came across Stacy Cowley's article GPL 3: An Open Source Earthquake?. As a member of OGC Consortium, the group responsible for developing geospatial interoperability standards, I've suggested review of their standards' ownership, branding and licensing.
This week, I was contacted by www.LightBlueLine.org and www.Canary-Project.org to help draw a line throughout New York City tracing the perimeter for a 40-foot sea wall that would have to be built to keep out oceans that (unless Global Warming is curbed quickly) are estimated to rise 7 meters from today's levels. Light Blue's already tracing Santa Barbara's risk of rising sea levels (inset).
Check out this week's Business Week cover story: Beyond the Green Corporation: www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_05/b4019001.htm. Also check out Innovest's Top 100 Global Companies that are socially responsible: http://www.global100.org/
