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CISPA: Asking for a Fight
Albert Wenger – Apr 27, 2012
I don’t know whether to be upset or happy about the machinations that went on yesterday and resulted in the House passing CISPA with a 248-168 vote. There were critical last minute changes to the bill that vastly enhance the [...] Read more
Hacking Society Follow-up
Albert Wenger – Apr 26, 2012
On Tuesday we held a wonderful one day event at the USV offices with the title: Hacking Society. The basic premise was relatively simple. Networks are a emerging on the Internet that are disrupting existing hierarchical institutions. Starting from that [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Programming Languages
Albert Wenger – Apr 24, 2012
This is the first post in the Tech Tuesday cycle on programming. Let’s begin with a simple observation: even though various human languages are quite different from each other they cover much of the same territory – the human experience. [...] Read more
The Bubble and (Misunderstood) Network Effects
Albert Wenger – Apr 23, 2012
Dave Winer last Thursday had a post called “It’s definitely a bubble.” OK, so it was more of a rant than a post but I share the sentiment of his title. The biggest issue that I see in the venture [...] Read more
The Learning Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Albert Wenger – Apr 19, 2012
I was on a panel for the wonderful iMentor organization earlier this week talking about the future of education. Every time I do that these days I emphasize that instead of talking about education we should focus on learning. Because [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Programming (Overview)
Albert Wenger – Apr 17, 2012
The purpose of Tech Tuesdays is to provide non-technical employees or founders of startups with background on how technology works so that they can better communicate with engineers and also better understand technological constraints and opportunities. With that in mind [...] Read more
Must Read: Guardian Series on “Battle for the internet”
Albert Wenger – Apr 16, 2012
I have long been a fan of the UK’s Guardian. They have embraced the internet like no other newspaper publisher. One of my favorite examples of the many great things they have done was the crowdsourced investigation of the expenses [...] Read more
Publishers Have Only Themselves and DRM to Blame
Albert Wenger – Apr 13, 2012
The Department of Justice earlier this week sued several large publishers and Apple over alleged collusion surrounding the agency arrangement for the sale of ebooks. The legal situation here is quite complicated as should be evident from the fact that [...] Read more
CISPA
Albert Wenger – Apr 12, 2012
I wrote a blog post last week about the current Privacy Theater in the US, where the government is simultaneously pushing stricter privacy regulations and huge backdoors that would completely undermine privacy. The backdoors come in the form of the [...] Read more