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Yearly Archives: 2010
Online Privacy Practices, Issues, and Concerns
Executive Summary Internet users are increasingly and unknowingly giving up their rights to their private information as they increase their online activities. As other countries have developed more stringent rules on privacy, the U.S. government has taken a wait-and-see approach … Continue reading
My last post — for this class
I came all the way to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to learn how to start a blog and maintain it. Not quite, but that’s what it took for me to get up to speed on this endeavor. Professor … Continue reading
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Alec Ross, the State Department and the impact of new media on the world
One of the benefits of having Nicco Mele as my professor for the Media, Power, Politics in the Digital Age class is that he invites all his cool and well-connected friends to speak in our class. His guests so far … Continue reading
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The filter bubble and other learnings
The Internet is a fairly new means of information AND communication – no matter the Supreme Court’s ruling on Brand X. For some years now, we have been enjoying the benefits of the new digital age: a colossal amount of information at … Continue reading
The power of crowdsourcing
I must admit that I’m glad my professor for Media, Politics and Power in the Digital Age, Nicco Mele, assigned us to write a blog on two readings that I had only skimmed through the first time around. The Cathedral … Continue reading
“Don’t be Evil” means respecting privacy
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta is intriguing, riveting and more then just a story about Google but also a brief history of the Internet. Auletta reminds us of how initially the power … Continue reading
To filter or not to filter? that is the question
In the enjoyable and easy to read Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky illustrates how the Internet has revolutionized the way people interact with each other. How we no longer need a hierarchical organization to organize us under the banner of … Continue reading
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