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A couple of days ago I wrote a post in reaction to the combination of the AT&T/Time Warner merger and the end of net neutrality. The core idea was that both events represented failures of government oversight and the combination … Continue reading →

I must admit that although I follow most topics related to online activity closely, the following story was new to me. How do you combat foreign online influence in a country that values an open Internet? Clint Watts (author of … Continue reading →

Tom Friedman is one of those writers I follow consistently. I have read all of his books and specific opinion pieces in the NYTimes when a title seems related to my interests. With a few exceptions (his position that government … Continue reading →

  Finding content for my posts can be a challenge. Sometimes I find a news item I want to write about. Sometimes I want to describe a book I have read. Often, something happens to me and I feel I must share. … Continue reading →

I understand the investment that so many have made in Facebook and the connections for them that exist on this platform. Despite what they know about the personal data and the data of their friends they are giving to Facebook … Continue reading →

I read a lot of things others might find unusual and obscure. A recent book that probably fits this description would be the Red Web. This book was written by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogran – Russian authors that write … Continue reading →

Ah, it’s tough out there, a good muse is hard to find Living one word to the next, one line at a time There’s more to life than whiskey, there’s more to words than rhyme Sometimes nothing works, sometimes nothing … Continue reading →

We are probably late to the cruising experience among those our age we know. Much of what I describe is likely a discovery for me, but old hat for many others. Here is one experience I can guarantee you past … Continue reading →

In his book, Lifelong Kindergarten author Mitch Resnick promotes the value of making thinking visible. He focuses on the importance of generating products, primarily the wide variety of products that can be generated within the Scratch programming environment. This has … Continue reading →

[on the Celebrity Reflection about half way across the Atlantic] I am easily intimidated in this environment. So much sophistication: People who speak multiple languages and who have been to so many places. People who recount stories from the dozens … Continue reading →