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Privacy Theater
Albert Wenger – Apr 2, 2012
I wrote recently about how we are at a time during which lots of little decisions will determine whether we find ourselves in an information utopia or dystopia. There is a lot of legislation in the works both here in [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Web Browser (Part 2)
Albert Wenger – Mar 27, 2012
Today is the wrap up of the initial web cycle. Last Tech Tuesday, I introduced Javascript as determining the behavior of a web page and interacting with HTML (the content of the page) and CSS (the look and feel). Now [...] Read more
Movie Review: The Hunger Games
Albert Wenger – Mar 26, 2012
This weekend I went to see “The Hunger Games” with our oldest son (12). His twin sister separately saw the movie as part of a friend’s birthday party. For anyone who has been behind a gigantic rock, er, I mean [...] Read more
Offense is the Best Defense for Startups
Albert Wenger – Mar 22, 2012
Once in a while I find myself in a product or strategy or biz dev discussion at a startup which goes something like: “we are doing xyz to defend against ”. My reaction is to ask whether xyz is also [...] Read more
Choosing Our Information-Based Future: Utopia or Dystopia?
Albert Wenger – Mar 21, 2012
We are at a perilous fork in history where many of the choices that we are making now and in the coming years will determine whether we are headed towards an information-based utopia or dystopia. It is not any single [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Javascript
Albert Wenger – Mar 20, 2012
The topic of last week’s Tech Tuesday was CSS, which determines the look and feel of the content of a web page (where the content itself is described in HTML). Today we will learn about Javascript, which is a programming [...] Read more
Pornography, Human Trafficking and the Internet
Albert Wenger – Mar 19, 2012
It is easy to dismiss Rick Santorum’s promised war on pornography as more moralizing from a candidate who apparently questions the separation of church and state. But it exposes an important fault line in thinking about the Internet when seen [...] Read more
45+10=1 hour (Getting Things Done)
Albert Wenger – Mar 16, 2012
This week I have been trying out a new approach to meetings. Instead of using up the entire time in the calendar for the meeting itself, I am trying to keep the meeting a bit shorter (45 minutes in the [...] Read more
Yahoo Facebook Patent Battle: Mobilizing Engineers
Albert Wenger – Mar 14, 2012
If Yahoo had any shred of credibility left with developers then it has succeeded in destroying that with its misguided patent lawsuit against Facebook. But the suit isn’t all bad. It has the potential to become a catalytic event for [...] Read more