Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2010
From Schneier on Security
Me on Cyberwar
During the cyberwar debate a few months ago, I said this:
If we frame this discussion as a war discussion, then what you do when there's a threat of war is you call in the military and you get military solutions. You get lockdown…From Putting People First
Nokia building loyalty among the bankless
The Register reports at length on Nokia’s move into Mobile Money. “For a technology company, Mobile Money is remarkably low-tech. Only the tiniest amount of bandwidth is necessary for a financial transaction, and it doesn’t need…
From Wild WebMink
Libert
In my “state of the FOSS world” comments during the opening plenary of Open World Forum in Paris recently, I observed how important it is to remember our founding principles. Modern France was founded on “Libert
From Putting People First
My Twitter feed
It is always a trade-off what to put on Putting People First, and what not. I try to make the call as best as I can. Whatever doesn’t cut the chase, but I still find interesting to share goes on my Twitter feed. Apparently it…
From Schneier on Security
Master's Theses in Homeland Security
This is a list of master's theses from the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security, this year.
Some interesting stuff in there.
From Putting People First
Data visualisation as an actionable tool in our lives
This week I watched the excellent online documentary “Journalism in the Age of Data“, which is a video report on data visualisation as a storytelling medium that Geoff McGhee created during a 2009-2010 Knight Journalism fellowship…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Web Format
Google has developed a new web format called WebP to replace Jpeg. Why? Because they believe that it will greatly diminish storage space used for still images on the web, which they says comprises 40% of the storage used on…