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I don't see any way to interpret the NSA mess as strengthening the United States. For our research at the Tau Institute, this means we need to take a look at the Press Freedom Index (PFI) and possibly integrate it (and possibly other measures) into our algorithms and rankings, because I don't see how a US that appears to be substantially less unfree than we all thought can be analyzed in the same light as before. This will be a semi-complex, semi-tedious process. The factors we integrate into our research are derived and reported in diverse ways. Our challenge is to create a composite index that weighs them rationally. Integrating the PFI will be no different. Good-bye, America Whether terrorist attacks have truly been prevented - and could have been prevented only with the known and still unknown NSA programs - the reality is that the Fourth Amendment of the Unite... (more)

Keeping it Simple with KISSFLOW

I've written before about an ongoing software development project with which I've been recently involved. Its complexities continue to challenge a development team with architects, programmers, and project managers in Chicago, Silicon Valley, and the Philippines. But we're able to keep one aspect of this project simple, thanks to a cloud-based solution from Orangescape that runs on the Google Apps Engine (GAE). The program is called KISSFLOW - the "kiss" here plays off a familiar expression and means "Keep it Simple and Smart." KISSFLOW has been invaluable so far in allowing us t... (more)

Focusing on IT Regions and Cities

State and regional efforts toward economic development and creating innovation are often as important as national initiatives. We're starting to examine some of these with the same eye we've been taking for the past two years with national environments. This is not to diminish the importance of a healthy national environment for technology and economic development; the best local or regional program will wither on the vine if a nation's roots have gone bad. On the other hand, strong local and regional programs can serve as beacons to attract talent and investment to their home co... (more)

Flashback to January 2006: Exclusive SYS-CON.TV Interviews on "OpenAjax Alliance" Announcement

Read Sun's Take on "Open AJAX"– Tim Bray Speaks Out IBM is leading, but apparently not controlling, a bold initiative known as "Open AJAX" that brings this open-source application development approach to the forefront of the worldwide i-technology industry. The Open AJAX initiative does not have a centralized structure or website, but is rather an idea that is being formally backed by BEA, Borland, the Dojo Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, Laszlo Systems, Mozilla Corporation, Novell, Openwave Systems, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo, Zend and Zimbra. A spokesperson for one of the m... (more)

Privacy, Cloud, Kafka & 2013

No, I don't see black helicopters in the sky. And I don't believe in global conspiracies - I think we humans are far too inept at operating anything complex over the long haul - and at keeping secrets - to somehow build vast, global ruling structures. But I remain highly concerned about privacy, it's alleged absence in the U.S. Constitution (RIP, Robert Bork, you scoundrel), and how it's been steadily taken away from us in the era of the web and social media. I laughed along with the rest of the connected world at the poor young Facebook-family lass who felt her human dignity was... (more)