Benlog

I’m a member of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force’s Technical Advisory Board, at the Harvard Berkman Center. We’re writing a report on technologies that protect kids online. Today, at the open meeting, we’ve been hearing short presentations from 15 companies.
I won’t comment much on the individual proposals, since the TAB has been jointly reviewing [...]

From my Helios Blog:

The Information Card Foundation is using Helios for its board election. Perfect use case: 50 people who will likely never all meet in person, but who need to vote on some issues. Helios provides them with a feature they literally could not achieve otherwise today: a secret ballot combined with real end-user [...]

Obama calls out Republicans on their immature rants:

Calling it “the foundation of Anglo-American law,” he said the principle “says very simply: If the government grabs you, then you have the right to at least ask, ‘Why was I grabbed?’ And say, ‘Maybe you’ve got the wrong person.’”
The safeguard is essential, Obama continued, “because we don’t [...]

So Google launched their own browser, Chrome, and in the words of a friend “this looks like an operating system to my MBA eyes.” Exactly. John Resig, of jQuery fame, has the smartest comment so far:

The blame of bad performance or memory consumption no longer lies with the browser but with the site.
By implementing this [...]