Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation “When Bob and I started writing the specs for the Internet in 1973…” Only a handful of people can start a sentence anything like that. When asked what he would tell the developer of the Next Big Thing, the technology that could replace the Internet, Cerf said, “Shoot the patent lawyer.”Via venturebeat.com
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Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationMuch worse: The powerful House Republican is Wall Street’s field general in the fight against financial reform…Via www.salon.com
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationIn their efforts to control people and protect profits, governments and associated industries (often in league with powerful Internet Service Providers — ISPs — who in some respects are admittedly caught in the middle), seem willing to impose draconian, ultimately fascist censorship, identification, and other controls on the Internet and its users, even extending into the…
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation 60 Minutes on CBS News: Congress: Trading stock on inside information? While Congressman Bachus was publicly trying to keep the economy from cratering, he was privately betting that it would, buying option funds that would go up in value if the market went down. He would make a variety of trades and profited at…
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation“The occupation is incredibly important as a symbol, as an organizing platform and as a model,” said another active participant, Max Berger. “But ultimately the impact the movement will have is a result of organizing that takes place outside the park.” “The way it works is, right now we have a set of tactics and…
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Ever since SOPA was introduced, we’d heard that the eventual House Judiciary Committee hearings on the bill would be an unfairly stacked deck. Despite such wide opposition to the bill, and the fact that this represents a massive change to the…Via www.techdirt.com