Junio 2012
9 publicaciones nuevas
Ante el modo de quitarse de en medio de Julian... →
Exclusive: Faced with extradition from London to Sweden to face sex-abuse allegations, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy and asked for asylum, what ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern considers an artful dodge to avoid possible U.S. persecution.
By Ray McGovern
Barring a CIA drone strike on the Ecuadorian embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s sudden...
Lo que sabe (y sabrá) Facebook con todos nuestros... →
Heading Facebook’s effort to figure out what can be learned from all our data is Cameron Marlow, a tall 35-year-old who until recently sat a few feet away from Zuckerberg. The group Marlow runs has escaped the public attention that dogs Facebook’s founders and the more headline-grabbing features of its business. Known internally as the Data Science Team, it is a kind of Bell Labs for...
Buen análisis y comentario de Javier Pérez de... →
Para buena parte de periodistas y teóricos de la información, la profesión comenzó a morir cuando los contenidos pasaron a ser gratuitos. Gratuitos para el consumidor.
El Huffington Post, la web del grupo Prisa que se inauguró el pasado jueves, pretende cerrar el siniestro círculo con una vuelta de tuerca al concepto “free”: esos contenidos gratuitos para el consumidor…a partir de ahora también...
Necesidad de perspectiva moral en política: Is... →
By Laurie Essig
A tantalizing article in The Guardian by Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia, offers us a theory about why the Dems are losing. It’s not the economy, but moral vision that is bringing them down.
According to Haidt, politics at the national level is more like religion than it is like shopping. It’s more about a moral vision that unifies a nation...
Christopher Mims: There Is No Digital Divide. A... →
We all know poor people are on the wrong side of an uncrossable technological chasm known as the “digital divide.” Their lack of iPads and data plans and broadband is just one more way they’re doomed to stay poor right up until they become the shock troops of the zombie apocalypse, am I right? Indeed, a recent New York Times piece, “Wasting Time Is New Divide in Digital...
Antonio Regalado: The Value of Privacy - Will "Do... →
An Amazon ad for a book by science fiction writer Cory Doctorow recently appeared on my computer screen. “What a coincidence!” I thought naively. I’d been reading an opinion item by Doctorow on Internet privacy (to be published this week as part of this month’s Business Impact series) and had looked up his past writing. That was all it took for a crowd of ads to start...
Cuestiones sobre modos de citar en trabajos... →
When an academic book manuscript is under contract and comes to my department for copy-editing, it undergoes an initial review by the assistant managing editor (yours truly) before assignment. If I find any major problems, I send the manuscript back to the acquiring editor, who returns it to the author for what is probably not the first round of revision but is hopefully* the last. (…)
NYT: Cyberweapon Warning From Kaspersky:... →
(…) “Cyberweapons are the most dangerous innovation of this century,” he told a gathering of technology company executives, called the CeBIT conference, last month in Sydney, Australia. While the United States and Israel are using the weapons to slow the nuclear bomb-making abilities of Iran, they could also be used to disrupt power grids and financial systems or even wreak havoc...
Obama Was Dangerously Naive About STUXNET and... →
(…) The list of ways that STUXNET code originally developed by the US and Israel is being widely distributed, learned from and exploited goes on, and the full Data Center Pro post is worth reading if you want to understand how these attacks might eventually be carried out on the data centers on which the Internet and our financial infrastructure depends.
In general, the so-called SCADA...
