THE PRICE OF ONLINE PAYMENT The final frontier, at least for now, where online interaction and privacy may or may not find practical synergy is mobile payment. Predictably, the convenience…
PRIVACY VERSUS PROFIT: THE NEXT BIG DEBATE Not many people would oppose the proposition that consumers enjoy convenience and appreciate value. As the Internet has expanded and advanced, free content…
*Recent events reminded me that the issues of privacy are not recent. Indeed, the notion of "other people" knowing what you are doing at all times was very much a…
7/22/2009: Listening to the disingenuous whining of the G.O.P. regarding the outrageous and irresponsible debt Obama is creating provokes various reactions. Here are ten of them. (But first, the image…
As far as I'm concerned, this was Margaret Thatcher's finest work. (And yes that is both a political and artistic statement.) The ever-reliable Charles Pierce puts things succinctly in perspective,…
Take this joke, please. Or this one: Funny, for sure. But cut with way more than a sliver of dead seriousness. This is what Bill Hicks brought to the planet,…
What's ten years and a couple trillion dollars between friends, huh? And I mean, it's not like anyone could have seen this coming, right? Right. Anyone who's read this blog knows…
I'm not sure what it says about me, but I've gone on record declaring, at times, a fervent wish that there was a God. Because if there was a God,…
Fascinating piece. I remember reading Wired at the time and hating it, not because it was so ceaselessly negative but that, even as a young teenager, I understood nuance and…
Watching coal-miners at work, you realize momentarily what different universes people inhabit. --George Orwell Quite by chance (no, really), I saw an old classic that had been languishing in my…
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