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Archive for 2013
May 22, 2013
MORE ON THAT TERRORIST ATTACK IN BRITAIN.
JOURN-O-LIST UPDATE: Ezra Klein and Josh Marshall, Who Got a VIP Briefing at the White House Yesterday, Are Curiously on the Same Page Today. “What I glean from this is that the previous White House position — nothing more needs be done, this is all a ‘partisan fishing expedition’ — is now inoperative, and a new defense — fire Lois Lerner and then claim that nothing more needs be done, this is all now just a partisan fishing expedition, again — is now in effect.”
“BUREAUCRACIED:” A Veteran’s Tale.
HIGHER EDUCATION’S DIVERSITY PROBLEM: SURVEY: Zero conservatives selected to deliver 2013 commencement speeches at Ivy Leagues.
AT AMAZON, Warehouse Deals in Sporting Goods.
COL. ALLEN WEST: Oklahoma Tornado: A Sobering Moment for the Nation.
WELL, CHRIS CHRISTIE CERTAINLY MAKES A BIG BIG BROTHER: A Mileage Tax Monitored By Big Brother For All N.J. Drivers? It Could Happen: Proposal Call For GPS Tracking Of Certain Vehicles, $50 Yearly Fee For Others.
I’ve written about this sort of thing before.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Do Women Expect Too Much From Men?
BAD LUCK: Timing made Oklahoma tornado toll worse.
PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH: Metastasis Of The IRS Scandal. Notice his new blog URL, too.
INTEL FUELS A REBELLION AROUND YOUR DATA.
Intel is a $53-billion-a-year company that enjoys a near monopoly on the computer chips that go into PCs. But when it comes to the data underlying big companies like Facebook and Google, it says it wants to “return power to the people.”
Intel Labs, the company’s R&D arm, is launching an initiative around what it calls the “data economy”—how consumers might capture more of the value of their personal information, like digital records of their their location or work history. To make this possible, Intel is funding hackathons to urge developers to explore novel uses of personal data. It has also paid for a rebellious-sounding website called We the Data, featuring raised fists and stories comparing Facebook to Exxon Mobil.
Intel’s effort to stir a debate around “your data” is just one example of how some companies—and society more broadly—are grappling with a basic economic asymmetry of the big data age: they’ve got the data, and we don’t.
It is that way.
MICHAEL TOTTEN ON THE RICOCHET PODCAST, talking about his new book, Taken, among other things.
START ‘EM YOUNG: 10 Tools Every Kid Should Learn To Use.
ANDREW KLAVAN likes Elizabeth Scalia’s new book, Strange Gods.
I DID NOTHING WRONG, BUT I REFUSE TO ANSWER ON THE GROUNDS THAT IT MAY INCRIMINATE ME: Lerner Says ‘I Have Not Done Anything Wrong,’ Refuses to Take Questions.
UPDATE: JournoList’s IRS Angle Begins To Gel. Well, the leaders of Journolist did meet at the White House yesterday.
HENRY MILLER: Activism vs. The Rule of Law.