Word of the release of an exciting new project from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Thomson Reuters. From the Berkman Center Site: Researching the nature of news, and media information flows, has always faced a difficult challenge: there is so much produced by so many outlets that...

2007 Circumvention Landscape Report: Methods, Uses, and Tools Source: Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University As the Internet has exploded over the past fifteen years, recently reaching over a billion users, dozens of national governments from China to Saudi Arabia have tried ...

Microsoft is currently testing a new search engine called Kumo to replace their failing Live Search. The testing is currently being tested internally by Microsoft employees, before going public. Microsoft has struggled to get their search vehicle to be used by the public, and is currently in third p...

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed In some cases, you may be connected to the Intranet - meaning you need a set of tools to help you troubleshoot problems, or see a problem before you know it exists. PacketTrap’s pt360 allows you to flow results between tools, save netwo...

Likaholix is a new website by two ex-Google employees, Bindu Reddy and Arvind Sundararajan. After signing up (if the site runs out of invites, Likaholix offered those who read along here some extra sign ups) you’ll be asked to enter what you like. This could be e.g. a book, or a link/ website,...

When Vista was getting ready to hit the streets, Microsoft promised that Vista Ultimate would be cutting edge technology. They promised us that for those who chose to purchase Ultimate at a reasonable $399 per disk, they would be blessed with technology features beyond your wildest dreams. OK. I mad...

Blog | Tech Blog | Secure Coding | Twitter | RSS Feed ---- Pissed by the sweltering heat, I started looking out for some good room coolers and look what I found over at mouth shut, none other than apna Adobe has launched room air coolers under the brand Adobe Air. Now, that ought to give the Air pla...

Over at Gartner they are reporting big news in that PC sales will suffer a decline for the first time in history. No duh! We are in a recession people. Folks are fearful of losing their jobs. The stock market is in a steep down turn. Unemployment is on the rise. So making a prediction like this is a...

Howard Bloom in his book Global Brain – which traces that brain from the big bang to the beginnings of bacterial life on earth to our current times –, mostly following physicist Eshel Ben-Jacob, lists the following elements in regards to how the “social learning machine” does...

Washington Post - By Jose Antonio Vargas - Mar. 02 (Special Report) - The team that ran the most technologically advanced presidential campaign in modern history is finding it difficult to adapt that model to government. WhiteHouse.gov, envisioned as the primary vehicle for President Obama to commun...