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the art of engagement: December 2010
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Friday, December 3, 2010. Mobile Photos Replace Actual Memory. I'm one of those people who don't know the phone numbers of people I call numerous times a day. If I have to reach them without my own phone, it's an ordeal. But soon even their name in my directory won't suffice. Only their photo! And by the way "85% of all mobile users worldwide have taken a photo with their phones, making it the second most popular mobile content activity after texting (88%).". Amplify’d from adage.com. This behavior is in...
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the art of engagement: Lobotomize Demented DeMint
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011. Poor thing. Not only does it not know how the technology works, not only does it not know what "small government" mean, but it doesn't appear to know what cost-cutting and recession mean either. At what point do we get off this politically correct kick and stop enabling severely mentally disabled people to serve in congress? On our dime. Flush it. Like the fecal strep that it is. Amplify’d from thinkprogress.org. 8221; bill that would allow hospitals that receive federal fund...
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the art of engagement: January 2011
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011. And the band plays on. Facebook is to privacy what pinpricks are to condoms. Amplify’d from www.wired.com. No Facebook, You May Not Share My Address and Phone Number With Developers. Around Silicon Valley, it’s well known that if users aren’t paying for a service, they are the product. As Nicholas Jackson of The Atlantic reported. At exactly 9 pm on Friday night before a 3-day weekend, in a classic Friday night news dump, a Facebook employee named Jeff Bowen posted an item on F...
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the art of engagement: Une Charge De Merde
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Monday, October 17, 2011. Une Charge De Merde. Accountability and fascism have never been particularly good bedfellows. Oh what a brilliant way to inspire trust in French police. Police officers arresting suspects, taunting protesters and allegedly committing acts of violence against members of ethnic minorities should not be stopped. Just its documentation. Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com. Court Orders French Cop-Watching Site Blocked. A report by Amnesty International in 2009 was sharply critical of the...
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the art of engagement: December 2011
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Thursday, December 22, 2011. If you aren't paranoid, you aren't paying attention. Amplify’d from www.businessweek.com. Spies Fail to Escape Spyware in $5 Billion Bazaar for Cyber Arms. Dec 22 (Bloomberg) - The intelligence operative sits in a leather club chair, laptop open, one floor below the Hilton Kuala Lumpur’s convention rooms, scanning the airwaves for spies. He isn’t alone watching his back at this cyber-arms bazaar, whose real name is ISS World. Read more at www.businessweek.com. One night in Oc...
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the art of engagement: June 2011
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Friday, June 17, 2011. Lez Get Real, SHall We? Startling revelations that "A Gay Girl in Damascus," a Syrian lesbian blogger named Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari, and "Lez Get Real," founded by Paula Brooks (that helped put Amina on the blogosphere map), turned out to both be straight white Americans - seemingly unrelated or aware of each other's duplicity - has some angry acitivits, gay and straight alike, calling for greater regulation of this kind of hoax. Lez Get Real, Shall We? Web site, who helped la...
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the art of engagement: February 2011
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011. Rotten to the Core - Apples Latest Power Play. Apple flexes it's muscle, making people like me root even harder for the success of Android and Windows Phone 7. No one likes a censorship-wielding techno control queen. Not only does Apple control the content you get, but how you pay for it as well. Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com. Apple Moves to Tighten Control of App Store. SAN FRANCISCO — Apple. Is further tightening its control of the App Store. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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the art of engagement: Watching Your Back
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Thursday, December 22, 2011. If you aren't paranoid, you aren't paying attention. Amplify’d from www.businessweek.com. Spies Fail to Escape Spyware in $5 Billion Bazaar for Cyber Arms. Dec 22 (Bloomberg) - The intelligence operative sits in a leather club chair, laptop open, one floor below the Hilton Kuala Lumpur’s convention rooms, scanning the airwaves for spies. He isn’t alone watching his back at this cyber-arms bazaar, whose real name is ISS World. Read more at www.businessweek.com.
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the art of engagement: October 2011
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011. Not So Private Eyes. Not that government misbehavior relating to freedom of expression and privacy comes as much of a surprise, but looking at the actual numbers can be very sobering. Amplify’d from www.guardian.co.uk. Google: US law enforcement tried to get videos removed from YouTube. The technology giant's biannual transparency report reveals a 70% rise in takedown requests from US government or police. The technology giant's biannual transparency report. Poor thing. Not...
