01/12/2009 (12:03 pm)
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Pundits who predict the death of print would do well to look at similar death pronouncements – the idea that the telephone would kill public lectures, and then that the phonograph would kill the telephone. Useful both as a caution on the future of journalism and as a reminder of the difficulties associated with prognostication.
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Exploring strategies to reduce traffic congestion by providing information to drivers via wifi on traffic conditions and using lessons learned from congestion on p2p networks to reduce real world congestion. Interesting example of how adding information to a system might enable independent entities to cooperate and reach homeostasis.
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Important discovery by Hal Roberts: major China-focused censorship circumvention tools are aggregating and selling web data and will sell you data on the behavior of individual users if you pass their screening test. This is incredibly dangerous and bad practice, and a powerful reminder of how much sensitive data circumvention sites end up holding about their users.
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