Tag Archives: Open source

Privacy, publicity and open data

Nov 11th – @ 7pm

This one should be a quickie.
A fascinating article came out of CNN today: “Intelligence deputy to America: Rethink privacy“.
This is a topic I’ve had opinions about for some time. My somewhat pessimistic view is that privacy is an illusion, and that more and more historic vestiges of so-called privacy are slipping through our fingers with [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Civil liberties, Digital Identity, Life online, Open source, Philosophy, Society & economy, Web building | Also tagged , | Comments (8)

So Mozilla wants to go mobile, eh?

Oct 11th – @ 6pm

As with baseball, on the web we have our home teams and our underdogs and our all-stars; we have our upsets, our defeats, and our glorious wins in the bottom of the ninth. And though I’m actually not much of a baseball fan anymore (though growing up in New England, I was exposed to plenty [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Mozilla, Open source, Philosophy, Technology, The Web Arts, Web building, What I do | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (3)