December 2010
3 posts
Wikileaks: The Blast Shack by Bruce Sterling →
“The Wikileaks Cablegate scandal is the most exciting and interesting hacker scandal ever. I rather commonly write about such things, and I’m surrounded by online acquaintances who take a burning interest in every little jot and tittle of this ongoing saga. So it’s going to take me a while to explain why this highly newsworthy event fills me with such a chilly, deadening sense of...
Blog, poke, twitter and be damned →
“But it doesn’t follow, as the president suggested, that posting weird (to older people) things on the web — in blogs, social networks and the like — should be an automatic turnoff or disqualification for a responsible job later on. The notion of punishing someone decades later for what he or she said or did as a teenager or college student just feels wrong to me.”
Good...
“It seems to me that at the end of this chain is BitTorrent. That when WikiLeaks...”
– Dave Winer