Interesting story on TechCrunch about a hacking incident @Twitter.
TechCrunch received a series of internal documents from a hacker and has decided to make some of them available. Brings up some interesting ethical issues, which Michael Arrington addresses in another post…
Personally, I’m not exactly sure how this isn’t analogous to buying stolen property, but I’m not going to pretend I’m not interested in seeing the confidential Twitter documents. Let’s face it….as readers (and commenters) of online news and blogs — whether it’s “serious journalism” @ TechCrunch or entertainment news/gossip on TMZ.com — we are all voyeurs! And no one likes voyeurism more than sanctimonious, moral high ground proselytizing folks who challenge “ethics”.
The folks most upset by the “ethical concerns” are the ones who will be most thorough in reviewing EVERYTHING the TC crew decides to make available — just as the highest rates of subscription to adult sites are in states that have some of the highest church-going rates in the country (see details on CNBC.com).
Hypocrisy abounds!
Posted 7 months, 4 weeks ago at 1:19 am. Add a comment
Noooo….not from Sarah Palin….it just happens she’s resigning on the Friday before a holiday weekend…..She wasn’t trying to “bury the story” the day before the 4th of July….Sarah Palin is DIFFERENT than everyone else — she would NEVER DO THAT…..I wonder when the Republican establishment will say “enough is enough” with Palin. Drama and turmoil follows her everywhere — to think there are millions of Americans who’d trust her with the Presidency!
And as it’s Independence Day — Happy 4th to you all — I thought this picture was apropos:
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago at 7:00 am. 1 comment
My friends @ Innovate Media asked me to film a promotional clip for them when I was up at ad:tech back in April and sent this link to me today.
Guess I inadvertently became ad:tech’s (unpaid) spokesman for their upcoming Chicago conference…
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago at 9:50 am. Add a comment
Can’t remember ever sitting down to read Vanity Fear, but I heard about a “scathing” investigative report on Sarah Palin so I checked it out last night.
A paragraph toward the end really struck me…
“(Palin) has the good fortune to have traction within a political party that is bereft of strong leadership, and whose rank and file often demands qualities other than knowledge, experience, and an understanding that facts are, as John Adams said, stubborn things. It is, at the moment, a party in which the loudest and most singular voices, not burdened by responsibility, wield disproportionate power.”
In other words, Palin is a visible Republican party leader because many in “the base” don’t care about her competence. As long as she votes the right way on guns, God and gays, she’s good enough for them.
I’d be more concerned if I thought she had a legitimate chance to become President. Instead I just mock the Republican party for the pathetic state its in that Palin is influential — the “most powerful woman in the GOP”, according to VF’s poll.
As for the quote from John Adams that was mentioned in the article, here it is in its entirety:
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
- John Adams, December 1770
“Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials”
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago at 12:57 pm. 4 comments