Assange: Text messages show rape charges were ‘set up’ • The Register"WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange said on Friday that text messages in the possession of the Swedish government prove that rape charges against him are a set up." (wikileaks law sms ) Yahoo Acquisitions: Why did the web services group at Yahoo fail after acquiring [...]
Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » An Open Letter to Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo Inc."I just finished reading your demoralizing letter regarding recent layoffs at Yahoo over at All Things Digital. Although I’m only a Yahoo user, not an employee, I am a heavy user of your Flickr product — a product that [...]
Infochimps Data Marketplace + Commons: Download Sell or Share Databases, statistics, datasets for freeWow. (data api database research ) UK Daily Mail Faces Million Dollar US Copyright Suit From Mavrix Photo » The Russian Photos Blog"In court documents Mavrix accuse the Mail of “a pattern and practice of intellectual property piracy” [...] Those are harsh [...]
Where Linked Data Would Be Useful – Creating More MPs’ Maps from the Guardian Politics API « OUseful.Info, the blog…"So – Linked Data: can you see how it works yet? And do you get the feeling that network effects could kick in to place really quickly as data is enhanced with linking elements such as [...]
FT.com / Comment / Op-Ed Columnists – America should give Assange a medal"After two weeks of WikiLeaking, many Americans want to see Julian Assange locked up. Instead, they should give the man a medal. Of course, it is embarrassing and awkward to have all these secret diplomatic cables published. Mr Assange certainly seems to be [...]
On Nixon Tapes, Disparaging Remarks About Ethnic Groups – NYTimes.com"Richard M. Nixon made disparaging remarks about Jews, blacks, Italian-Americans and Irish-Americans in a series of extended conversations with top aides and his personal secretary, recorded in the Oval Office 16 months before he resigned as president." Not that surprising, really, but worth reading for broadly [...]
The media’s authoritarianism and WikiLeaks – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.comMore aspersions cast on the US press in its handling of Wikileaks: "After I highlighted the multiple factual inaccuracies in Time's WikiLeaks article yesterday [...] the magazine has now appended to the article what it is calling a "correction." In reality, the "correction" is nothing of [...]
Google Zeitgeist 2010"Based on the aggregation of billions of search queries people typed into Google this year, Zeitgeist captures the spirit of 2010." (trends google search visualisation ) From Bootstrap to Venture: The Money Behind Startups | Fast Company"This graphic by our friends at Grasshopper Group breaks down the various means of startup funding and [...]
Industry Research : Guido Has More Readers Than Times – Guy Fawkes’ blog"This blog has been more profitable than Times Online for years, now it also has more readers and more advertisers. Murdoch is making a strategic error on a grand scale…" Guido Fawkes gets the knives out. (paywalls times advertising blogging ) “The New [...]
Wikileaks and the Long Haul « Clay Shirky"Like a lot of people, I am conflicted about Wikileaks. [...] The key, though, is that democracies have a process for creating such restrictions [on Wikileaks], and as a citizen it sickens me to see the US trying to take shortcuts." Sharp insight, as usual. (wikileaks democracy analysis [...]
