Its official - txt space is private space. From the ny times: Saying it had the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from NARAL Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program... legal experts said private ...

From washingtonpost.com: The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining data on the persons with whom they travel or plan to stay, the personal items they carry during their journeys, and even the books that travelers ...

Couldn't help but notice these two stories about facebook today: Facebook investigated on child safety and Microsoft Is Said to Consider a Stake in Facebook. While I discovered social networking on friendster, moved to myspace and flirted with orkut - my favorite social networking service these days has been facebook. ...

While browsing washingpost.com I came across this gem: "Google Calls for International Standards on Internet Privacy." The article discusses Peter Fleischer's (Google's global privacy counsel) recent call for the development of international privacy standards. The article does a fairly good job at presenting the nuance of the privacy debate - ...

Q: "I would like to know what steps I should take to get a website of my own. I know I need to visit godaddy.com and buy my domain name. But after that, I'm at a loss. What do you suggest?" A: Ask and you shall receive.... To ...

According to the U.S. State Department, democracies can be organized under two general categories, direct and representative. In both forms the public participates in governance yet in a representative democracy elected or appointed officials mediate this participation, whereas in a direct democracy this participation occurs "without the intermediary of elected ...

"To search the web by location, delivering regionally pertinent information to users and regionally pertinent users to advertisers." - Jonathon Keats, Wired 15.09 :: sent wirelessly via blackberry

While enjoying an always delicious cafe mocha at Oslo this morning, I came across the 15.09 issue of Wired Magazine. On page 60 they included a world map indicating the price of broadband for various countries. The following is a snap shot of some of the countries profiled: South Korea - ...