20120707 Open Source Everything Highlights

Open Source Everything 20120706 Open Source Everything Highlights Filmmaker to attempt year of Open Source Everything Open Source Life: How the open movement will change everything Open Source Like Open Source? For Collaboration, Try Group-Office 4.0 Mozilla Foundation and EFF join hunt for Syrian open source developer Q&A: Harris president Jim Traficant on the ‘genius’ …

20120624 Open Source Everything Highlights

After Oracle, OpenSolaris rises again Oracle tried to kill it, but the former Sun project has emerged from the ashes, nurtured by a crowd of innovative startups Airlines should work together on open source apps Computerworld: Virgin Atlantic’s IT director, David Bulman, has called upon the airline industry to work collaboratively on open source applications …

Review (Guest): I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams

Mark Dery Bad Thoughts, Great Book March 27, 2012 By Supervert< I find it impossible to discuss Mark Dery’s I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts in anything other than the first person. The book speaks so eloquently of its time that, uncannily, I can’t help but feel it speaks of me. So many of my …

Barbara McNamara–Subversion from Within

Behind Closed Doors On 31 January 2011 Secrecy News returned to a subject that had been discussed earlier: the federal investigations of former NSA employee Thomas Drake for revealing classified information and of a former congressional intelligence committee staffer, Diane Roark, for assisting him. This latest article essentially quotes former NSA Deputy Director Barbara McNamara …