Monthly Archives: July 2011

United States of America® & Twitter® Announce Global Ad Parternship

By David Golumbia | Published: July 29, 2011

http://gawker.com/5826066/barack-obama-is-tweeting-like-a-monster #gotohell

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USA® & Twitter® Solidify Product Placement Relationship

By David Golumbia | Published: July 29, 2011

http://gawker.com/5826066/barack-obama-is-tweeting-like-a-monster #gotohell

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Hack/2

By David Golumbia | Published: July 23, 2011

So in yesterday’s news we learned not only of much more hacking by and awareness of hacking on the part of News Corp (I doubt we’ve even scratched the surface–what I want to know is how widely dispersed these techniques are and where knowledge about them comes from, because they all impinge on national security […]

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Hack/1

By David Golumbia | Published: July 21, 2011

Today the Wall Street Journal gives us even more on hackers, under the title “Hackers Shift Attacks to Small Firms” (GEOFFREY A. FOWLER And BEN WORTHEN, July 21, 2011). They write: Hacking at small businesses “is a prolific problem,” says Dean Kinsman, a special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s cyber division, which has […]

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More Unwise Commentary

By David Golumbia | Published: July 9, 2011

Posted in response to a response by Michael Gurstein to his response to a critique by someone from an “open” organization of a very smart post by Gurstein in the first place that responds to his sage and well-observed discussion of the politics of “open source” in an earlier post: Michael, you are fighting the […]

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Just. Say. No.

By David Golumbia | Published: July 2, 2011

It’s not just creepy. It’s part of the evil that Google is now chartered to do. See, when they put that thing together, they may have forgotten how evil is almost always done in the US: under cover of saying what’s being done is not evil. We have an entire political party/movement based around it […]

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