Virtual Private Network - a method to securely (sniffer-proof) pass data between networks across the public Internet. (more)

Winning At Life Even When You Feel Like Poop by Micah Dubinko ISBN:1544674988 (more)

Hunter Walk: Why We’re Paying for Content These Days (more)

Twitter is looking at becoming subscription-based (more)

Decide it's time for me to build a WikiGraph service of my own. Like MetaWiki (for Twin Pages in Sister Sites), except (more)

Andrew Ngleaves chief scientist post at Baidu. (more)

James Somers: The Like Button Ruined the Internet (more)

Martin Cagan: My Favorite PM Interview Question: whether or not the product manager is “the CEO of the product,” and if it’s even a good metaphor. (more)

Peter Brantley summarizes the latest Books In Browsers conference. (more)

Politifact.com is a project operated by the TampaBayTimes, in which reporters and editors from the Times and affiliated media outlets "Fact-Check statements by members of Congress, the White House, lobbyists and interest groups" (Journalism).[2] They publish original statements and their evaluations on the Politifact.com website, and assign each a "Truth-O-Meter" rating. The ratings range from "True" for completely accurate statements to "Pants on Fire" (from the taunt "Liar, liar, pants on fire") for false and ridiculous claims.[3] The site also includes an "Obameter", tracking President Barack Obama's performance with regard to his campaign promises, and a "GOP Pledge-O-Meter", which tracks promises made by House Republicans in their "PledgeToAmerica". Politifact.com's local affiliates keep similar track of statements and figures of regional relevance, as evidenced by Politifact Tennessee's "Haslam-O-Meter" tracking Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam's efforts[4] and Wisconsin's "Walk-O-Meter" tracking Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's efforts.[5] Politifact has been both praised and criticized by independent observers, conservatives and liberals alike. Conservative bias and liberal bias have been alleged, and criticisms have been made of attempts to fact-check statements that cannot be truly "fact-checked". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politifact.com (more)

Fact checking is the act of checking factual assertions in non-fictional text in order to determine the veracity and correctness of the factual statements in the text. This may be done either before (ante hoc) or after (post hoc) the text has been published or otherwise disseminated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact_checking (more)

Mike Caulfield: How “News Literacy” Gets the Web Wrong (more)

Jay Rosen looks at the history of Business Model-s for News (Journalism). We don't know how the general public that is supposed to have informed opinions will in the future try to inform itself. What we do know is that rich and powerful people will always find the means. Includes links to some good Clay Shirky and Jeff Jarvis bits.

Clay Shirky finally responds re z2003-08-05-EchoWikiBacklash - "Things seem unfocused." This is, I think, the real and core issue - the Echo Standards Wiki isn't wiki-patterned enough... As a result, many of the pages looks like a crappy BBS instead of a good wiki, and pages multiplied without being folded together.

In honor of Dave Winer (c2000) NYC visit, some notes on my history with Userland Frontier... (more)

Creator of UserLand's Userland Frontier (released 1989). See Medscape And Frontier. (more)

having a DayJob (more)

Jon Udell interviews MAPICS CEO Dick Cook on the Jobless Recovery, Off Shoring, China and India. Dick’s a pragmatic guy who outsources to India, and likely will outsource to China too, because he thinks doing otherwise would be noncompetitive. He’s not deaf to the siren song of protectionism, but would rather focus on ways to stimulate American innovation and competitiveness, and he’s compiled a list of strategies: Do more to foster math, science, and technical education. “Other countries are catching up in terms of education and skill, and we all want to ignore that,” Cook says. Make it easier for foreign nationals who earn advanced technical degrees in the United States to live and work here. “There should be a fast track to a green card, so we keep more of those highly educated people in the country,” he explains. (more)

People holding the Belief that Vaccinations cause Autism and various other problems. (more)

Vaccination to prevent The Flu (more)