Derek Slater is my former colleague at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, now serving as a policy analyst at Google. He’s just published a barn-burning essay called “#noimnotgoingtolawschool:…
Texas officials edited climate change out of environmental report -
Texas scientists wrote a report detailing the state of the environment in Galveston Bay. Rick Perry-appointed officials from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality went through the report and…
No I'm Not Going To Law School: Disrupting Law Schools -
Derek Slater is my former colleague at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, now serving as a policy analyst at Google. He’s just published a barn-burning essay called “#noimnotgoingtolawschool:…
HOWTO write more secure free/open source software -
Having recently conducted a security audit of several free/open source software programs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Chris Palmer and Dan Auerbach have published some guidelines for…
I still can’t believe Mark Zuckerberg did not win the Nobel Peace Prize -
Yesterday there was speculation that Zuck was going to get it. But then they gave it to three women who as far as I know don’t even have a startup or even an iPhone app. I tried…
OpenStack Leader: Open Source Needs to Rethink Its Priorities -
Philosophically, the open source concept borrows some selected elements from socialism. It upholds a notion of the “common good,” it eschews the appearance of authority or hierarchy, and it…
One of the things about working with data at 37signals is that I end up interacting with a lot of different APIs—I’ve used at least ten third-party APIs in the last few months, as well as all of our…
I don’t mean to overhype this, but frankly I don’t think it would be possible to overhype something as huge and profound as what Facebook introduced yesterday, at least from what I gather…
Armed with a Win8 Tablet, YoYo Games Marches Toward HTML5 -
Last week in Anaheim, in amongst the crowd of developers at Microsoft’s Build 2011 conference assimilating the news about Windows 8, was a team from a London, U.K.-based company called YoYo…
Dropcam makes surveillance consumer-friendly, gets $5M from Facebook investors -
Smile, you’re on camera! Wi-Fi video camera company Dropcam raised $5 million in its first round of funding today led by storied venture firm Accel Partners and Google+ vice president…