First POST: Challenges
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, February 24 2015
How Silicon Valley donors are thinking about Hillary Clinton 2016; Yahoo's security chief locks horns with the head of the NSA; Instagram location data catches a Congressman with his hand in the till; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Foundations
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, February 12 2015
The big ideas from yesterday's NetGain conference; sifting internal Airbnb data for NYC; new tools for civic hackers; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Goggles
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, January 20 2015
More on the shifting net neutrality debate; how Ready for Hillary plans to share its digital assets; the family roots of Civic Hall; and much, much more. Read More
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: 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: Paranoid Liberalism
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, January 21 2014
The New Republic accuses Snowden, Greenwald and Assange of being "paranoid libertarians"; Academics think Facebook can be used to predict election results; Data-mining for marketing purposes goes really, really awry; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Can You Hear Me Now?
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, December 17 2013
Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon blasts the NSA's phone metadata collection program; Edward Snowden sees vindication in the preliminary ruling; the Internet Archive unveils an amazing visualization of the "geography of US TV news"; and much, much more. Read More
Interview: Why Fight For the Future Is Supporting Bitcoin
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, December 3 2013
Last week, Fight for the Future, the Internet freedom group that played a big role in kicking off the movement that stopped the SOPA and PIPA bills, announced that it was taking on a new cause: Bitcoin. Together with Bitcoin evangelist Jon Holmquist, they put together ">BitcoinBlackFriday.com" as a hub for more than 250 online vendors who are accepting the digital currency, some of them offering special deals through the site. The vendors include OK Cupid, Reddit, CheapAir.com, and the Internet Archive. What follows is a short interview with the group's co-founders as to why they're backing the controversial digital currency. Read More
First POST: Busted
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, November 22 2013
Google's Eric Schmidt thinks strong encryption will eventually defeat government censorship and surveillance; Clay Johnson shares a 24-minute video tutorial on why government IT fails and how to fix it; FWD.us founders hack with undocumented immigrants; and much, much more. Read More
Honoring Spirit and Idealism of Aaron Swartz at Memorial Hackathon
BY Jessica McKenzie | Monday, November 11 2013
After Aaron Swartz's death on January 11, 2013, activists around the world gathered and held spontaneous hackathon's in his honor. They were informal and lacked central organization, which was fine at the time, but months later friends and colleagues of Swartz's wanted to know what had happened at those events, and if any of the participants would be interested in another one. The Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon began at Friday, November 8—what would have been Swartz's 27th birthday—in New York City, as well as in 19 other cities around the world, from Amsterdam to Zagreb.
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