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Beware the Apex Predators

Privacy, Trust and Identity are now at the forefront for all consumers, and have wide-ranging impact on technology and media businesses. From tech companies, expect lobbying actions, new tools, new policies and more personal control to rebuild users’ confidence, and from the policy world expect more guidelines around use of personal data and stricter repercussionsContinue reading

Dog loses airline – now THAT’s a story!

I think I would just ignore, it is local news doing a story on a lost dog. Their entire government is shut down and about to default and this is how the US media spends its time. An Air Canada rep unintentionally candid response to a questions about a lost show dog from a reporterContinue reading “Dog loses airline – now THAT’s a story!”

saila: I for one welcome Bezos as washingtonpost’s overlord if this becomes the voice of its Twitter account (ht @susinsky)

If Peter Thiel Calls…

I’m a crotchety old guy. I worry about all these new companies. I’m glad that they’re easier to start, but the problem is, they’re just as hard to finish as they have always been. Mike Olson — “Student Entrepreneurs: If Peter Thiel Calls — Hang Up” (via donnabrewingtonwhite) Source: donnabrewingtonwhite

The Exhibition place is not someplace to come and get sick. Except of course, if we make you sick by putting you on a ride but that’s a different story. David Bednar, general manager of The Ex, as quoted in “Food vendor remains closed during wait for test results after 34 fall ill at CNE”Continue reading

“With a massive database of one BILLION vehicle sightings and the addition of up to 50 million new sightings each month, Vehicle Sightings provide valuable information for both locating subjects and investigating the historical whereabouts of both individuals and vehicles,” advertises TLO, a data broker that caters to lawyers, private investigators, law enforcement and insuranceContinue reading

A bias towards potential as opposed to achievement

I am very susceptible to this kind of bias. A bias towards potential as opposed to achievement

The Economist – Redux

Hot on the heels of my earlier post, the New York Times talks about the Economist, and how it’s been one of the only news magazines to grow in the past few years. The Economist Tends Its Sophisticate Garden By JEREMY W. PETERS Published: August 8, 2010 The Economist, a bible of world news withContinue reading “The Economist – Redux”

My Parents’ New York City

To my parents, New York is – or at least was – a dirty, crowded, and dangerous place. They like to tell stories about their trip there as newlyweds in the early 70’s. We returned there twice as a family, although I never quite understood why. It was a tough place to take a suburbanContinue reading “My Parents’ New York City”