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Open, Closed, 1984 and the Evil Empire

Open, Closed, 1984 and the Evil Empire

By Ben Kepes on February 22, 2012

On my recent Gillmor gang slot I spent time talking with Steve Gillmor and John Taschek about open data, the risks of a few all-powerful social networks and how open data can drive potential benefits for all. In what was I suspect an effort to create a provocateur outside of

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Apple, george orwell, Gillmor Gang, google, John Taschek, steve gillmor | 1 Response

‘Open’ good, but there’s plenty of room for ‘almost open’ and ‘not open’ too

‘Open’ good, but there’s plenty of room for ‘almost open’ and ‘not open’ too

By Paul Miller on October 13, 2010

Image by Ben Templesmith via Flickr Towards the end of George Orwell’s allegorical take on the Stalinist Revolution, the pigs of Animal Farm take on the trappings of the humans they supplanted, shifting ideologically from ‘Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad’ to declare ‘Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better!’ as they rise to stand on […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged Animal Farm, Data sharing, george orwell, open data, Open science data, Ordnance Survey, Russian Revolution

1984

1984

By Zoli Erdos on August 28, 2009

Keeping Americans safe in an increasingly digital world depends on our ability to lawfully screen materials entering the United States. – says Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano justifying why the Obama administration largely upheld the Bush-era regulations about intrusive border searches of travelers’ laptops, cellphones and other electronic devices. I’ve heard that reasoning before. No, […]

Posted in General | Tagged 1984, airport search, airport security, george orwell, iron curtain, laptops, netbooks, notebooks, privacy, Security, us government | 3 Responses

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