http://memex.naughtons.org John Naughton's online diary Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:48:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From today's Guardian. Facebook has threatened to sue the Daily Mail for damages after the paper wrongly claimed in a piece published on Wednesday that 14-year-old girls who create a profile on the social networking site could be approached "within seconds" by older men who "wanted to perform a sex act" ... http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2010/03/11/10369 There an interesting symposium in Democracy in which a number of well-known US intellectuals wrestle with the question of whether -- and how -- liberalism needs to be redefined in the context of Obama's (and Limbaugh's) America. Panellists include Michael Sandel, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Reich and Michael Walzer. We asked ... http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2010/03/10/10367 Hmmm... From Technology Review. Blogging often sounds like a great idea: sharing thoughts and expertise, becoming a part of a community, and taking the first few steps to wider recognition as a writer. But many bloggers quickly get disillusioned. IBM's internal records show, for example, that only three percent of the company's ... http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2010/03/10/10365 Hooray! Business Week reports that: The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the 2009 A.M. Turing Award to Charles P. Thacker, for his work in pioneering the networked personal computer. In 1974, while at the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), Thacker built a prototype of a desktop computer, called the ... http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2010/03/10/10358 http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2010/03/09/10356 Interesting list of eighteen 'Firsts' on the Internet. Includes the first email and the first e-commerce transaction. Oh -- and the first search engine. http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2010/03/09/10353 The White Mountain from charles on Vimeo. http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2010/03/09/10350 Yoohoo! Powerpoint junkies beware -- Edward Tufte has been given a job by Obama. Government and industry bureaucrats addicted to spewing out mind-numbing PowerPoint presentations, be very afraid; Edward Tufte is coming to Washington, DC. The Obama administration has appointed Tufte to serve on the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel, which ... http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2010/03/09/10348 From Slashdot. The EFF is publicly disclosing a version of Apple's iPhone developer program license agreement. The highlights: you can't disclose the agreement itself (the EFF managed to get it via the Freedom of Information Act thanks to NASA's recent app), Apple reserves the right to kill your app at any ... http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2010/03/09/10345 Last Sunday's Observer column. Spare a thought for the poor venture capitalists of the world. Well, perhaps the word "poor" is not entirely appropriate, but there's no doubt that they seem to be having a torrid time at the moment. Over the past decade they have poured hundreds of billions of ... http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2010/03/09/10343