First POST: Addressable Transcendence
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, July 22 2014
What San Francisco techies and tenant activists have in common; the future of online political targeting; problems with Washington DC's new open data policies; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Media Futures
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, June 24 2014
The Knight Foundation gives $3.4 million to groups expanding the open Internet; Comcast and NBC hackathon winners promote entertainment apps; Rock the Vote relaunches its website; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Throne Games, Phone Games
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, May 15 2014
An explosive new report about Verizon's apparent abuse of Title II of the Telecom Act; the "glass cliff" and the demise of NYT executive editor Jill Abramson; what the European high court forgot to do in its ruling against Google; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Our Surveillance Society
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, May 14 2014
Senate mavericks Udall and Wyden take on the government's "culture of misinformation" about surveillance; all the private ways companies track individuals will curl your hair; how the European high court ruling against Google may change journalism and free speech; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Civics Lessons
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, May 5 2014
Code for America wants civic tech to work for everyone, not just City Hall; how Netflix faces an uphill battle for influence in Washington, DC; why Bitcoin is a scam; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Civics Lessons
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, May 5 2014
Code for America wants civic tech to work for everyone, not just City Hall; how Netflix faces an uphill battle for influence in Washington, DC; why Bitcoin is a scam; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Wheeler Dealer
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, April 24 2014
The FCC wants to allow "commercially reasonable" discrimination online; net neutrality advocates protest; Comcast Country (aka "Philadelphia") comes under scrutiny; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: USAID's Exploding Cigar
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, April 7 2014
Why ZunZeneo, the "Cuban Twitter" funded by USAID, was such a bad idea; some hard questions about the Comcast-TimeWarner merger; tech's "man problem"; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Font of Wisdom
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, March 28 2014
Charting the various NSA reform proposals; mapping the Twitter/YouTube/Facebook bans; exiting from Facebook?; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Circumlocution and Circumvention
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, March 21 2014
Why everybody is talking about the NSA this morning; how Twitter and its users are responding to a crackdown in Turkey; how the Right is getting better at data-driven campaigns; and much, much more. Read More