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I'm a fiction writer and cultural commentator, author of novels and short stories and two books of culture criticism including most recently Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity. Check out my books and writing at www.smellit.c...
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- 4 months agoThey came with Big Macs and Cokes, quintessential symbols of America all over the world. It was fitting that the Canadian secret service interrogators brought 16 year-old Omar Khadr American fast food. Their presence in America's infamous Cuban prison, Guantanamo Bay, helped extend and reaffirm ...
- 4 months agoVideotapes recently released showing Canadian teenager Omar Khadr interrogated at Guantanamo Bay are an international embarrassment.
- 4 months agoWhy is that when corporations sue each other, we're the ones who end up suffering? Case inpoint is Viacom's ridiculous lawsuit against YouTube. Viacom wants Google (who ownsYouTube) to bleed to the tune of a billion dollars because clips from programs like ViaCom'sThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart ...
- 4 months agoDismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.
- 5 months agoA few months back I joined something called Help A Reporter. It's the brainchild of publicist/marketing entrepreneur Peter Shankman. Basically what happens is that twice a day I get a list sent to my email that consists of reporters looking for sources for stories. Here's one of the shorter lists to ...
- 5 months agoA few months back I joined something called Help A Reporter. It's the brainchild of publicist/marketing entrepreneur Peter Shankman. Basically what happens is that twice a day I get a list sent to my email that consists of reporters looking for sources for stories.
- 5 months agoA recent survey by US information security company Cyber-Ark reveals that “One in threeinformation technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential datasuch as colleagues' salary details, personal e-mails or board-meeting minutes.” Additionally, afull&...
- 5 months agoA new study finds that 1 out of 3 tech staff read the private emails of their colleagues and otherwise access private material not meant for them. For more on this, read the accompanying blog post.
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