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Another excellent piece by +Farhad Manjoo that refutes all of the outright lies that…
Another excellent piece by +Farhad Manjoo that refutes all of the outright lies that Gordon Crovitz tells about the creation of the internet. This really sums it up:
In other words, creating something as grand and untested as the Internet was something that a private company simply couldn’t do. The project was too big, and the payoff too uncertain. That’s true of most technologies in their infancy.
Who invented the Internet?: The outrageous conservative claim that every tech innovation came from private enterprise.
Earlier this month, President Obama argued that wealthy business people owe some of their success to the government’s investment in education and basic infrastructure. He cited roads, bridges, and sch…
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Over the years the Wall Street Journal has received plenty of often well deservered…
Over the years the Wall Street Journal has received plenty of often well deservered praise for the journalism on its news pages. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of its editorial pages which have been steadfastly slanted to the far right of the political spectrum and frequently show a startling disregard for the truth.
A prime example was a column penned recently by Gordon Crovitz. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444464304577539063008406518.html
It seems that Crovitz's sole motivation was to try to refute the recent comments by President Obama about the need for governement spending on public infrastructure.
In Crovitz's twisted version of reality, the US government had nothing to do with the creation of what is now known as the Internet. Thankfully we still have renowned computer scientist Vint Cerf to remind us of what actually happened back in the 1970s.
Cerf and his collaborator Robert Kahn created one of the most fundamental technical underpinnings of the 'net known as TCP/IP. Kahn was on the Defence Department payroll and Cerf got government funding for his research.
For Crovitz to try and claim that the government had nothing to do with the development of the net is blatantly untrue and his claims are nothing more than political posturing.
No credit for Uncle Sam in creating Net? Vint Cerf disagrees
A legendary figure in the invention of the Internet weighs into a new debate about the U.S. government’s role during that heady era. Read this blog post by Charles Cooper on Internet & Media.
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7 years old today!
Seven years ago today I published the very first post on this blog. Since then I’ve become a full-time professional writer working at various times as a journalist and a PR flack. These days I publish most of my stuff through Google Plus because I have a bigger audience over there.
Fortunately Google doesn’t mind users pulling their data out so I use Daniel Treadwell’s Google+ plugin for WordPress to automatically pull all of the content from G+ and cross-post it here. It’s been a fun ride and I’ll continue to use this venue to share my random thoughts for the foreseeable future.
More pointless skeuomorphism from Apple, Android has had the ability to collapse/expand… 4
More pointless skeuomorphism from Apple, Android has had the ability to collapse/expand quoted text in emails for years
Something in iOS 6 you haven’t seen yet…
Here’s a nice touch from Apple (AAPL) that you might not have seen: When email threads get too long in iOS 6, just pull to expand the crumpled up email to show the entire thing. A photo showing Apple’s implementation of this great feature follows below.
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Yet another reason to avoid the Olympics 6
The International Olympic Committee is not about sports, it's about making as much money as possible and athletics is just a side effect.
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London's trying to ban 3G access points from the Olympics…
London bans wireless access points, joy, kittens from the Olympics
If you thought the list of banned items at the Olympic Games couldn’t get any longer, now the IOC is gunning for that
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