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Water from the air
I've long thought a technology like this could be revolutionary for the developing world. The notion that all the energy required could come from the sun i…
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PrivacyCamp Washington, DC 2009
Co-sponsored by the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Future of Privacy Forum (among others), this inaugur…
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Obama in Egypt
This is how I want my President to speak to the world. I strongly urge you to read the whole thing. "We meet at a time of tension between the United Stat…
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Patient Privacy Rights FTC Comments
Teneille Brown, Joshua Auriemma, and I helped Patient Privacy Rights draft the public comments it submitted to the Federal Trade Commission on Monday. Thanks t…
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Discussions vs. disputes vs. controversies
A friend in the eBay Israel office shared this with me... pretty interesting... "Debates are communicative exchanges that evolve in time. Their minimal un…
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Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal
Now Kristof is getting into the evolutionary psychology line of thinking: "How’s this: Would you be willing to slap your father in the face, with his perm…
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Empathy vs. Rationality
I must say, the end of the Bush era seems to have buried the part of David Brooks that got me so wound up, leaving only the part I treasure. Now all that remai…
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Google Wave
Now this is going to be cool: http://wave.google.com/ I urge you to watch the youtube video of the demo. Who knows if it's going to get critical mass --…
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How to Save Journalism
In May, Free Press released a report titled Saving the News: Toward a National Journalism Strategy. The 48-page document is the most intelligent and comprehens…
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Best Practices for Online Video Video
Last Summer, the Center for Social Media released the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video, a first of its kind document—coordinated by American…
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Creative Commons Filtering Comes to Yahoo Image Search
Flickr has been offering users the ability to search by Creative Commons license since mid-2006, and I've been waiting for Yahoo to implement such a feature…
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Wolfram Alpha & curated knowledge about man & woman
The web was abuzz with Wolfram Alpha the past week and I too took a test drive with varying results. Among other things I simply entered the terms 'man'…