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Apple’s Turned the PC Market on its Head

The iPad’s devastation of PC market share (“Tablets To Grow 53.4% This Year, Says Gartner, As The Traditional PC declines 11.2%“) combined with Apple’s free release of Mavericks OS X struck me at how much the company’s flipped the dynamics of...

/ October 24, 2013

Impassioned BBC Interview on Society with Russell Brand

Please watch the Russell Brand interview on the BBC about culture and politics. via Gawker: “I don’t get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people,” Russell responded. “I look elsewhere for alternatives...

/ October 24, 2013

Experimenting with Patreon for Crowdfunding

Patreon is a new crowd funding site which I learned about from Jack Conte’s wonderful XOXO talk (below). Conte was an overnight YouTube sensation searching for a way to earn a living from delighting hundreds of thousands of followers. Patreon...

/ October 23, 2013

Ten Ways to Make NSA Spying Popular with Americans

With a more entrepreneurial focus, the NSA could easily counteract the current unpopularity of its surveillance programs and eliminate concerns over the cost of its multi-billion dollar programs. Here are ten services the NSA could offer to make its spying...

/ October 20, 2013

FastMail Says It’s Free of NSA Surveillance

FastMail steps up with more explicit statement about its customer privacy: Robert Norris, Fastmail technical lead, said: “Australia does not have any equivalent to the US National Security Letter, so we cannot be forced to do something without being allowed...

/ October 10, 2013

Business Groups See Loss of Sway Over House G.O.P.

Here’s the New York Times today on business leaders who bought the government but aren’t seeing it do its bidding: “There clearly are people in the Republican Party at the moment for whom the business community and the interests of...

/ October 10, 2013
Parking Theme to Sell Your Domain Name

How to Park, List and Sell Your Domains

Here are some of the tools that I use to simplify automation of parking, listing and selling my Internet domain portfolio. You can see the results in action here: http://federal.ninja and domains for sale. 1. Parking Page: Use a parking...

/ October 3, 2013