a "right to be forgotten" that will allow people to demand that organizations that hold their data delete that data, as long as there is no legitimate grounds to hold it. It's not 1995 anymore The 1995 Directive was written in a largely pre-Internet era; back then, fewer than …
"We don’t want to trust Facebook with private messages among activists,” said developer Ed Knutson to Wired. “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook…but, we’re making our own Facebook.”
Balancing chaos and order has always been a challenge; you want to curtail botnets and spam and phishing and other Internet ills without destroying the productive chaos that allowed a million websites and online businesses to launch without permission from any gatekeeper... .. …
Occupy Wall Street protestor: I never saw the Tea party as a negative phenomenon. And then he goes on to explain why he feels that way. (Also some interesting thoughts on participatory democracy-- and how to effect change).
The more sophisticated our data-gathering and data-crunching tools become, the greater the temptation to rely on mathematical models to represent and reshape our society.
Watch Jeffrey Sachs, leading environmentalist and economist, and a respected Professor at Columbia University, speak out at the growing, inspiring Occupy Wall Street movement.
What took us so long? How much worse did it have to get before public outrage would finally focus on those who caused the problem and those who are milking us dry? Several of us have been pleading in blog after blog for more than two years to build a broad-based assault on W …
Tenth grade students of Nazareth’s St. Joseph’s Seminary, Jerusalem’s Hebrew University Secondary School launch joint English magazine .
Construction is way up in Gaza-- and they are nowbuilding some wonderful facilities for tourism!
The September issue of Harvard Business Review includes an article by Nathan Foote, Russell Eisenstat, and Tobias Fredberg, titled The Higher Ambition Leader, that is essential reading for everyone interested in corporate social responsibility.
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