Extra Future

Day: May 17, 2012

  • The Inequality Speech That TED Won’t Show You

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Sounds like good sense to me.][link] Shame that TED is too spineless to make it available: >We’ve had it backward for the last 30 years. Rich businesspeople like me don’t create jobs. Rather they are a consequence of an eco-systemic feedback loop animated by middle-class consumers, and when they thrive, businesses grow and hire, and…

  • Twitter Implements Do Not Track Privacy Option

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Another big privacy / security win for Twitter][link]. They’re using a new feature in Firefox called, appropriately, “[Do Not Track][dnt]”: >Do Not Track is a step toward putting you in control of the way your information is collected and used online. Do Not Track is a feature in Firefox that allows you to let a…