This weekend I read a post titled "Dear Congress: It Is No Longer OK To Not Know How the Internet Works." The author, Joshua Kopstein, is right: it's not ok to not know about something before legislating or regulating it. The confessions by members of Congress that they are "not nerds" is frustrating at best because these guys, the guys that are regulating the Internet can't tell a server from a waiter.
And so a post is born, sympathetically climbing the charts at Reddit and HackerNews, telling Congress to get a clue. But the problem is that that post won't do any good. Few if any members of Congress will read it, and those that might certainly won't read it and decide that it's time for them to brush up on understanding how the Internet works as well as a professional that works on the Internet.
The fact is, Congress isn't the only group in this equation that needs to get a clue. The online activists, the free culture crowd, and the pro-open and free Internet crowd needs to get a clue too. See -- it's just as important for us to understand how Congress works as it is for the Congress to understand how the Internet works. In Washington, those who "educate" Congress the best usually end up with the winning legislation.
Buy the book:
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption [Kindle Edition]
About the Information Diet
Healthy information consumption habits are about more than productivity and efficiency. They're about your personal health, and the health of society. Just as junk food can lead to obesity, junk information can lead to new forms of ignorance. The Information Diet provides a framework for consuming information in a healthy way, by showing you what to look for, what to avoid, and how to be selective. In the process, author Clay Johnson explains the role information has played throughout history, and why following his prescribed diet is essential in today's information age.
With this book, you’ll learn:
The relationship between power, authority, and information since the dawn of the first major information-technology boom
How people react to information consumption, according to cognitive science and neuroscience findings
How the new, information-abundant society is suffering consequences from poor information consumption habits
What constitutes a healthy information diet and how you can get started
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The new Kindle Fire for only $199 is more than a tablet - it's a Kindle with a color touchscreen for web, movies, music, apps, games, reading & more. 
BitTorrent Live to kill television : With BitTorrent Live, a direct streaming video P2P technology, Bram Cohen declares that they want to kill television. 
GoDaddy email and calendar software does not track you. Google Calendar and Gmail does. How do I know? I use a tool called Do Not Track Plus (click for the Mozilla Firefox Plugin). Please check out the figure above. Note that in the upper right hand corner of the screen the Do Not Track Program displays a “green zero.” This indicator tells you that you are not being tracked on the GoDaddy website. How wonderful! No commercials, no ads, no tracking. Perhaps GoDaddy email and calendar software is very well worth the 10 dollars a year?
That said, I must confess and come clean. I have to share that I, Michael L. Aaronson, MD, was contributing to the privacy problem which has become the plague of the internet. I was using a widget called “Outbrain” to help display related post information on my website. I thought the program was great in that it provided other provocative and profound articles to the customers I serve. It seemed harmless enough.
It turns out that the program was tracking my users as they traveled around the internet. How embarrassing! The preacher on his soap box was allowing Quantcast, without his knowledge or approval, to track his clients. I acted quickly, removing Outbrain. I searched for an alternative to allow me to post related articles. I found a program called “Related Items” gifted by MyWebsiteAdvisor which allows me to avoid tracking my loyal subscribers. Note that I now do not have even one tracking code on my website. Nice! 
Before the development of web, if someone wants to edit images then he must either buy an image editing software like photoshop or he must use some free image editors available. Via José Carlos, J Lynn Lock, ABroaderView.org, antonios, J Lynn Lock 
The replacement original Motorola Droid owners have been waiting for has arrived, bearing the gifts of dual-core power, an excellent keyboard, and Verizon's blazing 4G LTE data. Read this blog post by Brian Bennett on Dialed In. 
Microsoft gave new details about its upcoming version of Windows for ARM-based devices. Everyone saw the focus, the insistence, and the scorn for bozos – for people who were happy enough to get by. What people always missed about Jobs at Apple was the agile mind, able and eager to shift from the inside to the outside and back again. 
Windows 7 TuneUp suite protects your computer from system crashes, repairs and maintains your PC health, removes unneeded Internet clutter, regains valuable disk space, cleans your registry and tweak windows to perform better. 
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VYou is your video you. VYou is the fun, easy way to record and share your knowledge, thoughts and experiences - using social video. Answer questions or record status updates -- either at your desktop or with your mobile device -- to build a searchable, portable version of you. Via Ana Cristina Pratas, J Lynn Lock Mid range gaming PC setup for 2012 which this gaming PC setup you can plan all the latest PC games at FULL HD 1080p resolution keeping the graphic settings a... 
I remember fondly the days when we were all tickled pink by our elected officials’ struggle to understand how the internet works. Whether it was George W. 
SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix has regained almost as many customers as it lost following an unpopular price increase, signaling that the video subscription service is healing from its self-inflicted wounds.
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My wife and I enjoy Netflix so much that when the price of the stock recently took a nosedive, we invested.
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Bufferbloat is a phenomenon in a packet-switched computer network whereby excess buffering of packets inside the network causes high latency and jitter, as well as reducing the overall network throughput. The term was coined by Jim Gettys in late 2010.[1][2] 
According to rumors, Apple is all set to release its much hyped products iPad 3, iPhone 5 and MacBook Pro this year. After the launch of iPhone 4, many of them anticipated the next release would be iPhone 5, instead Apple released iPhone 4S, which came as a shock and surprise to most of the consumers and users across the world.
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A whole new line up of powerful computers will appear in 2012 from Apple. A 15" Macbook Air as the Macbook Air takes over all but the 17" lineup of Macbooks. A more powerful iPad 3 that finally replaces the ultrabooks. As a matter of fact the Macbook Air could be considered the iPad with a touchpad. Both will dominate 2012. Keep Apple healthy.
Apple does need to clean up it's manufacturing relationships and help workers share in Apple's success. Via Permeative 
According to Nvidia, it takes less than two milliseconds to switch the Tegra 3 between companion and quad-core modes; the two core components are never active at the same time. "Aggressive power gating" is employed for each individual core, including those within the quad-core cluster, allowing the chip to cut power to dormant cores. There's also plenty of dynamic clock scaling at work, although Nvidia notes that active members of the quad-core cluster will all run at the same speed to ease OS scheduling. 
Windows 8 on ARM will launch at the same time as Windows 8 on Intel-AMD, but there are key differences. Case in point: You don't turn off a Windows on ARM PC. Read this blog post by Brooke Crothers on Nanotech - The Circuits Blog. 
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In view of our focus, and the challenges the case presented, we decided to take an entirely different approach — and turn to an Apple iPad for our trial evidence presentation. We would still use a couple of documents blown-up on foam boards, for effect — but we didn't use TrialDirector or bring in an independent IT professional. Everything was managed directly from counsel table with minimal hardware and technology. Via christopherritter
This weekend I read a post titled "Dear Congress: It Is No Longer OK To Not Know How the Internet Works." The author, Joshua Kopstein, is right: it's not ok to not know about something before legislating or regulating it. The confessions by members of Congress that they are "not nerds" is frustrating at best because these guys, the guys that are regulating the Internet can't tell a server from a waiter.
And so a post is born, sympathetically climbing the charts at Reddit and HackerNews, telling Congress to get a clue. But the problem is that that post won't do any good. Few if any members of Congress will read it, and those that might certainly won't read it and decide that it's time for them to brush up on understanding how the Internet works as well as a professional that works on the Internet.
The fact is, Congress isn't the only group in this equation that needs to get a clue. The online activists, the free culture crowd, and the pro-open and free Internet crowd needs to get a clue too. See -- it's just as important for us to understand how Congress works as it is for the Congress to understand how the Internet works. In Washington, those who "educate" Congress the best usually end up with the winning legislation.
Buy the book:
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption [Kindle Edition]
About the Information Diet
Following Apple’s big push into education with the announcement of the new “iBooks 2.0″ and “iBooks Author” platform, new reports claim 27 German textbook publishers are banding together to combat Apple with a digital textbook platform of their own. The platform will launch in time for the 2012 to 2013 school year. |
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