[Dave Birch] One of my most frequent criticisms of the UK's national identity card scheme is that it is backward-looking, an electronic simulation of a Victorian ID card rather than an ID card for the 21st century. I gave an example of this in a talk recently by using the case of OpenID, noting that...

    Barack Obama is doing his ’presidential thing’ today. He’s out there selling himself, his party and his recovery and reinvestment plan.  Remember it’s no longer the economic stimulus package . They’ve dropped that loser name for a more uplifting one- recovery ...

Search the Charlottesville MLS Copyright RealCentralVA.com, LLC. If you are not reading this at RealCentralVA.com the site you see is likely stealing content. Real Estate Brokers can Stop Learning After 15 Years This bill in the General Assembly makes no sense. Or … get away with it for fiftee...

[Dave Birch] I like the phrase "digital footprints" as I think it provides as useful metaphor and image. Your digital identities leave digital footprints behind and other people -- perhaps people you don't know -- can follow those footprints. That's a reasonably powerful picture to put in front of p...

The following is an account of a loan horror story recounted by a Charlottesville lender. First, a solution: What Realtors can do to avoid a similar scenario: Work with lenders who have successfully closed at least five loans in the past twelve months of the type they are proposing. Work with lender...

On Sunday, Chris Mooney and Randy Olsen both tried to make the case that Ben Stein's "Evolution Caused the Holocaust" movie was a success at the box office. Both of them have been rather spectacularly condemned for calling Expelled a success, but I'm not sure that they're entirely wrong. I just don'...

Henry Gee and I have been talking, on our blogs, about how the public views science, and what can be done to change that. That's hardly a new topic for scientists. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen or heard the topic discussed. It's a water cooler conversation topic at universities an...

"Pit bulls' have been all the rage in Lubbock over the past couple of weeks, spurring a pleathora of media articles, a special announcement by the mayor, and a special meeting being called for citizens to discuss.   So let's take a look at what's going on in Lubbock: The debate heated...

According to one of the U.K. newspapers, the government is thinking about chipping prisoners in order to track them, as they (sort of) do at the moment with ankle bracelets... But, instead of being contained in bracelets worn around the ankle, the tiny chips would be surgically inserted under the sk...