Great post from Waltwideweb Here

Microsoft is developing Big-Brother style software capable of remotely monitoring a workers productivity, competence and physical wellbeing, The Times reports.
Read it on stuff.co.nz Here

“The prospect of AT&T, already accused of spying on our telephone calls, now scanning every e-mail and download for outlawed content is way too totalitarian for my tastes.”
Read it in Slate Here

The “Big Ten” media conglomerates

“The media cartel that keeps us fully entertained and permanently half-informed is always growing here and shriveling there”

A lot and not much at all has changed since 2002 when this was written. If you don’t have time to read it - catch the last paragraph at least:

“In short, the news divisions of the media cartel appear to work against the public interest–and for their parent companies, their advertisers and the Bush Administration. The situation is completely un-American. It is the purpose of the press to help us run the state, and not the other way around. As citizens of a democracy, we have the right and obligation to be well aware of what is happening, both in “the homeland” and the wider world. Without such knowledge we cannot be both secure and free. We therefore must take steps to liberate the media from oligopoly, so as to make the government our own.”

Read article “What’s wrong with this picture” By Mark Crispin Miller Here

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/fifty-50-tools-which-can-help-you-in-writing.html

“Google offers easy answers to difficult questions. But students do not know how to tell if they come from serious, refereed work or are merely composed of shallow ideas, superficial surfing and fleeting commitments.

“Google is filling, but it does not necessarily offer nutritional content,” she said.

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