There are October surprises (“some unforeseen or otherwise dramatic development that prompts millions of voters to rethink their assumptions and allegiances“) and there are terror alerts. During the Bush Administration, initially because of nationwide fears after 9/11, terror alerts began with corresponding increases in “chatter” amongst the terrorist networks, as intercepted by our intelligence agencies. Because it often […]
Big Brother, and Google, is watching you…
September 13, 2010 by
Image by Inmigrante a media jornada via Flickr I thought it was scary how much information Facebook had on me. Yeah, right. Next to Google, Facebook is just almost benign. Almost. Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google (which does email, calendars, documents, searches, maps, directions, YouTube, blogs, and so on), has his eye on you: […]
How Google Works; or What I Learned Today
July 1, 2010 by
Fascinating. And proof of what a good idea, sufficiently funded, can become. (via PPC Blog)
“Live Free, or Die Hard,” or Big Brother is watching? The Brave New World of cell phone tapping. PART I
February 16, 2010 by
Among the coolest of gadgets are those which use an internal GPS device to tell you where you are on the map. I use one in my phone and, thanks to an app from Google that I downloaded for free, it allows me to pinpoint my location, pin it on a map, and plot out […]
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