- US House passes controversial CISPA cybersecurity bill, now on to the Senate--Killing off democracy one bill at a time.
- Sneak attack: surprise amendment makes CISPA worse, then it is voted and passed a day ahead of schedule. Congress just deleted the Fourth Amendment--Learning their lesson from SOPA, Congress isn't going let the dirty masses stop them this time, and Obama may back down from a veto.
- How CISPA would affect you
- Deep Thought is Dead, Long Live Deep Thought--"All of these facts point to a single trend: our ability to produce data is outstripping our ability to understand it."
- Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic--"Informationally, we are becoming lard-asses. In the pageview and ratings driven media economy, too much of the content these days is designed to be just like junk food to quickly boost quantifiable viewership."
- xkcd: Reviews
- Web addicts have brain changes, research suggests
- Study: Multitasking hinders youth social skills
- Nomophobia -- fear of being without your phone -- is on the rise
- Facebook's 'dark side': study finds link to socially aggressive narcissism
- Technology Isn't Anti-Social: People Are
- US Senate Proposes bill to eliminate overtime for IT Employees
- What tech skills gap? Train your workers--"IT professionals are feeling the pressure to boost their tech skills, but they aren't getting the support and resources."
- Old Techies Never Die; They Just Can’t Get Hired as an Industry Moves On NYT
- Blast from the Past: Microsoft Asks Some Laid Off Workers To Send Back Part Of Their Severance--Sensing the PR backlash, they decided to back off
- Black Future For Blackberry? A Tech History Lesson For RIM
- Sayonara Sony: How Industrial, MBA-Style Leadership Killed a Once Great Company
- The ignominious fall of Dell
- Kodak stockholders have most to lose in bankruptcy--Company was afraid to embrace the future.
- The Personal Computer Is Dead
- The Curious Case Of The (Cr)apps That Make Money
- 2012: The Year Scam Apps Killed the App Store
- Fake Pokemon Yellow rises to No. 3 position on iTunes app charts
- Anarchy in the App Store
- Lawsuit against Apple for 'bait' apps moves forward
- Judge dismisses Yelp class action suit for good--"A judge dismissed the class action lawsuit against social reviews site Yelp, putting an end to a case filed against it by a group of unhappy business owners."
- Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0
- Yelp Ads Are Not A Rip-Off, You Pay To Seal The Deal
- Lawsuit: Wine Expert Lashed Out At Woman After Bad Yelp Review
- How Yelp destroyed the thrill of exploring Salon
