*Martial law is the imposition of military rule by military authorities over designated regions on an emergency basis. (more)

Jeffrey Rosen notes how decisions about Internet Free Speech are being driven by Silicon Valley Social Media businesses. ome of the Deciders have become convinced that the greatest threats to free speech during the next decade will come not just from authoritarian countries like China, Russia, and Iran, who practice political censorship and have been pushing the United Nations to empower more of it, but also from a less obvious place: European democracies contemplating broad new laws that would require Internet companies to remove posts that offend the dignity of an individual, group, or religion. (Politically Correct) (more)

Bruce Schneier on the Security Theater around the Boston Ma in reaction to the Aqua Team Hunger Force. 2007-02-01-BostonBombScareAquaTeenHungerForce

During the Boston Marathon (Boston Ma) on April 15, 2013, two bombs exploded at 2:49 p.m. EDT (18:49 UTC), killing 3 people and injuring 282 others... The Federal Bureau of Investigation took over the investigation,[7][8] and on April 18 released photographs and video of two suspects.[9] They were identified that day, with help from the public, as brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. (more)

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is an American Trade Association (Trade Guild) that represents the six big Hollywood studios (Film Industry). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America

Jeff Jarvis wasn't satisfied with Journalism's performance during Hurricane Sandy (Disaster Response). He wanted data and got Story Telling. I wanted lists of what streets were closed. I wanted lists of what streets the power company was finally working on. Oh, the utility, JCP&L, gave my town, Bernards Township, lists of streets, but they were bald-faced lies (I know because my street was on that list but their crews weren’t on my street). The town and our local media outlets only passed on these lists as fact without verifying. I wanted journalists to add value to those lists, going out to verify whether there were crews working on those streets. In a word: report. I wanted media organizations or technology platforms to enable the people who knew the facts — my fellow townspeople — to share what they knew... That’s where the need and opportunity remain: in very local (HyperLocal) information. No one has cracked the geographic nut well — not big papers, not big networks of sites, not Twitter. Desperate to find open gas stations, we gathered around the #njgas Hash Tag but it wasn’t terribly useful learning that a station 50 miles away just opened up. (more)

Jason Cohen takes some typical Bench Mark Sales Funnel metrics to calculate the Sustainable CPC WebAd rate you can afford to pay, given your monthly Subscription Rate (BootStrap Revenue Model). CPC = MRR/25. So if you're charging $50/mo, you can afford to pay $2/click. (more)

aka No Growth Economy? No Economic Growth? (more)

the World Wide Web as accessed by Mobile device/browser (more)

protecting from CyberWar? (more)

Senior Obama administration officials have secretly authorized the interception of communications carried on portions of networks operated by ATT and other Internet service providers (ISP), a practice that might otherwise be illegal under federal wiretapping (WireTap) laws. Shades of 2008-02-16-FisaTelcoAmnestyBattle. (more)

MichaelJosephGross sees a growing War On The Net. (Not great article, but ok.) (more)

Real World Game book by Jane [[Mc Gonigal]] (more)

Clay Shirky, Emily Bell, and C W Anderson have written "PostIndustrialJournalism". This essay is part survey and part Manifesto, one that concerns itself with the practice of Journalism and the practices of journalists in the United States. It is not, however, about “the future of the news industry,” both because much of that future is already here and because there is no such thing as the News Industry anymore. (more)

A very popular Web Application Server/language. (more)

School Reform author (more)

For now dumping down some thoughts I just emailed to a friend, in reaction to a Richard Dawkins article on not giving govt money to religious schools: Having disavowed the hereditary principle for membership of Parliament, you seem hell-bent on promoting the hereditary principle for the transmission of beliefs and opinions. For that is precisely what religions are: hereditary beliefs and opinions. (more)

aka Time Boxing (more)

Matt Welsh thinks universities should form/host Incubator-s to accelerate Technology Transfer. The academic research process is incredibly inefficient when it comes to producing real products that shape the world. It can take decades for a good research idea to turn into a product... In theory, academics are supposed to be patenting their ideas, and companies are supposed to come along and license the patents and turn them into real products. However, I am not aware of a single project from a computer science department that ever been commercialized through this route. This approach is more commonplace in fields like biotech, but in computer science it is rarely done... A far more common (and successful) approach is for academics to spin out their own startups. However, this involves a high degree of risk (potentially career-ending for pre-tenure faculty)... What I'd like to see is a university with a startup incubator attached to it, taking all of the best ideas and turning them into companies, with a large chunk of the money from successful companies feeding back into the university to fund the next round of great ideas. This could be a perpetual motion machine to drive research... Typically, when a startup spins off, the university gets a tiny slice of the pie, and the venture capitalists -- who fill the much-needed funding gap -- reap most of the benefits. But why not close the air gap between the research lab and the startup? I think they should host a broader Work Community. (more)

Joe Nelson aims to create a Thinker Space (see Work Community) in Madison Wi, *a Maker Space for those interested in math, music (and other branches of thought/creation), and conversation. It would be a modern-day salon — a place to meet for study, good conversation, and a slow non-technological pace (Slow World)... a public downstairs cafe with wifi, and an upstairs computer-free, cell-free private club. If you're working on your startup or checking email do so in the lower level. This is also where you can get tea, coffee, and snacks. If you're a member you can climb the stairs to a humane atmosphere of conversation, live music, and ideas. (more)