New and notable for November 22nd 2011 through November 28th 2011
What I’m reading and finding for November 22nd 2011 through November 28th 2011:
- Fliers Still Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why – NYTimes.com-
New technologies are often greeted with fear and that is certainly true of a disruptive technology like cellphones. Yet rules that are decades old persist without evidence to support the idea that someone reading an e-book or playing a video game during takeoff or landing is jeopardizing safety.
- My 10 years of blogging: Reflections, Lessons & Some Stats Too — Tech News and Analysis-
Ten years is a long time. Sometimes it is so long that one forgets a lot more than one remembers — like the fact that it I have been blogging for a decade. I would have totally forgotten about the amount of time that has passed, had it not been for (what else) a blog post from Fred Wilson, one of the more engaging and rigorous bloggers on the web. It just so happens he is a venture capitalist, but he would be a great blogger without the VC tag as well.
His post made me ask myself: how long has … show all text - The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk-
The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class’s venality
US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral show all text - From Twitter – http://t.co/W0GooSOn How to fight back against oversharing on Facebook
- Customers hit by pepper spray at Wal-Mart describe scene of chaos – latimes.com-
Matthew Lopez went to the Wal-Mart in Porter Ranch on Thursday night for the Black Friday sale but instead was caught in a pepper-spray attack by a woman who authorities said was “competitive shopping.”
Lopez described a chaotic scene in the San Fernando Valley store among shoppers looking for video games soon after the sale began.
“I heard screaming and I heard yelling,” said Lopez, 18. “Moments later, my throat stung. I was coughing really bad and watering up.”
Lopez said customers were alrea… show all text - Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More | TorrentFreak-
Since January 2011, Google has been filtering “piracy-related” terms from its ‘Autocomplete‘ and ‘Instant‘ services.
Google users searching for terms like “torrent”, “BitTorrent” and “RapidShare” will notice that no suggestions and search results appear before they type the full word. As a consequence, there’s sharp decrease in Google searches for these terms.
Initially only a handful of “piracy-related” terms were censored, but a recent update to the blacklist includes nearly all the top file-… show all text - From Twitter – INFOGRAPHIC Here’s How To REALLY Use LinkedIn http://t.co/bM8abYBK
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