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How morality feeds poisonous partisanship
Robert Samuelson today: "...the public agenda gravitates toward issues framed as moral matters. Global warming is about "saving the planet." Abor…
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Unvarnished Revisited (& Updated)
UPDATE: Unvarnished changed its privacy policy, addressing some of the problems I mentioned. Thanks! I recently wrote about my disappointment in Unvarnished’s…
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Obama and Rush
CBS News: "In an interview with CBS News' Harry Smith yesterday, President Obama was asked if he is "aware of the level of enmity that crosses the…
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Unvarnished & Unintellible
UPDATE: I had a good meeting with Peter Kazanjy about Unvarnished. My thoughts on that meeting and what I learned here. Among other things, Unvarnished has no…
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eBay's Win is a Matter of Economic Necessity
As the Wall Street Journal is already reporting, today eBay sustained an important win in its long-running dispute with Tiffany over counterfeit goods sold thro…
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Turing Machines and Bilski
I received a link to a fascinating site (http://www.aturingmachine.com) and video of a working model of a Turing Machine (TM). Turing Machines are named for Bri…
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Rehberg v. Hodges: Constitutional Protection for Email Privacy
In Rehberg v. Hodges, EFF is asking the 11th Circuit to fix an earlier opinion wrongly suggesting that the contents of stored emails are not protected by the Fo…
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Google No Longer Will Collaborate With China
I have a comment on the NYT Room to Debate forum Google or China: Who Has More to Lose? praising Google's decision not to censor search results on .cn but r…
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Google v Everyone
I had a long interview this morning with the Christian Science Monitor . Like many of the interviews I’ve had this year, the subject was Google. At the incr…
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The ECJ’s Ruling on Google Adwords
The closely watched battle over the use of trademarks as keywords for purpose of triggering advertisements on Google’s search result pages (AdWords) reached hig…
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Health Care
Well, I have little to add to the nattering nabobs out there, but I'm pleased we passed it. As to the post-script, I'm with E.J. : "By temperament…
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WhatApp.org: Now In Beta
There's an app for everything these days. But users often don't have a complete picture of the applications they download and use. Privacy policies are…