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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
Connected Learning
Nick Grossman – Apr 13, 2012
Yesterday at the Center for Civic Media, our lunch guest was S. Craig Watkins, a professor at UT Austin working on a variety of projects under the heading of “Connected Learning”. In his blog post about the idea, Dr. Watkins defines this as: [...] 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
Hackathons and Open Source Invade the Real World
Andy Weissman – Apr 12, 2012
In the past few days I've seen a few things happen that demonstrate that what were once tech concepts or principles have seeped into non-Internet world, and are being applied in places maybe they were not originally intended, but to [...] Read more
Some Thoughts on the Instagram Valuation
Albert Wenger – Apr 11, 2012
Andy Baio provided an excellent perspective on Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram by analyzing the price per active user. This analysis shows that at about $30 per user this deal is far below many previous acquisitions. It also indicates that Yahoo’s [...] Read more
Saving the Oceans from Acidification
Albert Wenger – Apr 9, 2012
The reason Continuations has not had any new entries for a few days is that we went away on a family trip to the Virgin Islands. We have done a lot of snorkeling with the kids but in preparation for [...] Read more
Inventors and Entrepreneurs
Andy Weissman – Apr 5, 2012
My grandfather Nick lived what looks in hindsight like a cliched life. Born in "Turkey" in the 19th century, as he told us (we only later learned he grew up in Jerusalem, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire, [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: What Next?
Albert Wenger – Apr 3, 2012
So far on Tech Tuesday we have covered basic computing technology (9 installments) and the web cycle (11 installments). That means its time to check in again and see what to cover next. There are at least three big topic [...] Read more