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Last week, a whistle blower revealed that the NSA claims within the US intelligence community (IC) to have direct and exhaustive access to the data servers of many large US-based digital services. Most reactions that I’ve read are either from … Continue reading →

Most of my friends. Well, the younger, meaner ones. Well, there’s actually a dozen of them, max. Let’s call them my… noisier friends like to post screen grabs of stupid things that people say on Tumblr. It used to be … Continue reading →

I came across two common mistakes daily, and I wanted to spell them out simply. The first one is a classic reasoning mistake: If many of A are B, then many of B should be A. That is only true … Continue reading →

The last post on this blog was about Quora, a promissing community, so much so I had since left this blog unmonitored. For almost two years, I was an active member. Last week, I came across a series of heinous and prejudiced … Continue reading →

I wanted to write this article for a long time, but the dogfight between Dan Gillmor and Chris Dixon triggered it. I spent my first years as a grad student wondering how bubbles were even possible: there were rumours about it in … Continue reading →

Ce billet est disponible en français. For days, I saw requests for invitations to Quora everywhere. I was surprised because, after sending links to friends and seen bloggers include more links (me included), I was sure that the site was … Continue reading →

Since last post, I got used to the idea that I am an independent consultant (I already had a company); to make it happen, I’ve met many web entrepreneurs who asked what I would do. Truth be told, my answer … Continue reading →