First POST: Slippery Slopes
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, April 1 2014
Why the CIA is fighting so hard to keep that Senate report on torture secret; OkCupid tells visitors using Firefox to use a different browser; why decentralized mesh networks should matter to dissident political movements; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Secret Sharers
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, March 27 2014
Jimmy Carter on Edward Snowden; Airbnb partners with Portland as a "shared city"; open data engagement strategies from around the world; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Role Models
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, March 24 2014
Applicants to George Washington University have an unusual role model; Is Twitter public, or should you only quote tweets with permission?; the future of open government in Philadelphia; 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
First POST: Kicking Off
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, March 3 2014
The latest from the Ukraine-Russia crisis, filtered through social media; PandoDaily's continued war on Pierre Omidyar and his First Look Media; how Twitter won the Oscar's; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Post-Ambition and Fear Not
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, February 25 2014
Cyberwar in Syria?; the Obama 2012 tech tools are being shared with lower ballot candidates; the debate over Netflix and Comcast continues; and much, much more. Read More
What Would You Ask Glenn Greenwald?
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, February 24 2014
On March 10, I'm going to be talking with noted author and journalist Glenn Greenwald at South by Southwest, in a main hall session co-organized by Personal Democracy Media. We're going to focus on the future of journalism, civil liberties and politics. The idea for this session is that it be a conversation, not a speech or a typical one-on-one interview, and in setting it up we decided that it would be great to try to include lots of questions from the public. To that end, Glenn and I are asking that folks go to his page on AskThem, the new open-source nonprofit platform for crowd-sourcing questions to politicians and public figures, to post and vote up the questions you would like us to discuss. As long as questions are civil and relevant, I promise to ask the ones that get the most votes there. Read More
First POST: Secret-Spilling Machine
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, February 24 2014
Some unanswered questions about Ukraine's #EuroMaidan protests; Julian Assange's ghostwriter speaks out on his subject's megalomania; Gawker's Nick Denton on the end of privacy; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Journoterrorism?
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, February 19 2014
A British court says it was lawful to detain David Miranda under the country's anti-terror law; data-mining at use in Oakland, by the US Census and by Obamacare canvassers; the crackdown in Ukraine; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Fingerprints and Fire Insurance
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, February 18 2014
How the NSA and GCHQ targeted WikiLeaks, Anonymous and Pirate Bay; why collecting Americans' phone metadata is just like fingerprinting and buying fire insurance; how the paper lobby is hoping to keep the government from going online; and much, much more. Read More