The MIT Technology Review just posted Campaigns to Track Voters with “Political Cookies”. It freaks me out for a reason I’ll get to below… The technology involves matching a person’s Web identity with information gathered about that person offline, including his or her party registration, voting history, charitable donations, address, […]
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In expectation of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act, I’ve been looking at predictions, public poll stats and listening to commentary full of speculation. These have been hard to miss, reading the news in the last week. In this blog post, I look at a few methods […]
Watch live streaming video from knightfoundation at livestream.com Michael Maness leads the Knight Journalism & Innovation Program. In the closing presentation of the conference, he takes the stage to present “moments of profundity”: the key takeaways and open questions generated over the past two days. Is the fury of collecting […]
Watch live streaming video from knightfoundation at livestream.com Mitch Resnick, director of the Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten group, introduces the panel by describing the culture of the Center for Civic Media and the Media Lab at large. There isn’t a central planning committee that assigns projects to the students and […]
“You never pick a lock you don’t own or that you haven’t been given explicit permission from the owner to pick. Number 2, don’t pick locks in use because locks can break when you pick them.” – Schuyler Towne, competitive lock picker and professional security researcherSchuyler’s introduction to lockpicking video […]