Hacking the Good Days...
Posts by: cathyma
by Liu XiaoBo’s speech in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize 2010, with exerpts below (more about Liu),
On ‘I have no enemies’,
“Hatred can rot away at a person’s intelligence and conscience. Enemy mentality will poison the spirit of a nation, incite cruel mortal struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and hinder [...]
A few years ago I walked by the underpath in Waterloo, London, surprised and delighted by a poem that silently accompanied me. What captured me was these few lines of the poem by Sue Hubbard,
Flickr Image: Colin Grey (creative commons licensed with some rights reserved)
Eurydice
I am not afraid [...]
Yesterday I went to a panel discussion at the Google office with some heavy-weight industry leaders on the future of the internet, with the first half focusing on the venture capital environment of the UK and Europe and the second half focusing on the future of the internet:
Reid Hoffman, Chairman & Founder, [...]
A great slideshow on all the privacy-related quote from the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, and I thought I was the one that can get caught for saying the ‘wrong thing’. Coming from a Hong Kong Chinese background means that I am particularly sensitive to governmental access to personal data for the use of [...]
The Real Life Social Network v2
View more documents from Paul Adams.
A brilliant presentation by Paul Adams from Google on how people actually manage their social networks online and offiline, and how existing social technologies fail to capture the intricate nature of human value [...]
Facebook Connect is a very clever piece of technology that allows websites to use Facebook to authenticate its users, hence allowing websites to save time and efforts in coming with their own registration systems. Another benefit is that site owners can define what level of information they would like to retrive from Facebook about the [...]
How to be Smarter: If you’re walking with someone, holding hands, and they trip a little, you tighten your grip to prevent them from falling. If you would let go of someone’s hand and just let them fall, you shouldn’t have agreed to hold their hand in the first place. So if someone you love [...]
Truly amazing performance. Please watch it if you have 8:33 minutes to spare… It’s something that will lift your spirit up should you need a lift today.
Thanks Rob.
Another great post from Setty’s blog:
Mini Saga #61 – Thoughtfulness
The waitress repeated, “Medium $3, Large $3.50.” The kid had emptied his pocket. He had $4 in total. The waitress was getting impatient. Five minutes. Finally, the kid asked for a medium scoop. Later, the waitress came to clean and swallowed hard. There [...]
A beautiful, smart and kind legal friend of mine heard that I was keen to read more about Data Protection, and she’s pulled together a lot of starting points for me (thank you Megan!!)
Thought that actually this might come handy to you as well…
Good legal site for tech law, here’s the section on [...]
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