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LinkedIn needs to work on pervasive phishing and identity theft. I recently found out about an account that copied my profile photo, name, and CV information and used that to conne…

Here's the study I was thinking about. "Local newspapers hold their governments accountable. We examine the effect of local newspaper closures on public finance for local governmen…

The first newspapers were expensive niche publications that provided businesspeople, politicians, and other elites with the information they needed. Mass market newspapers (and ult…

BayLeaks partnered with the San Francisco Bay Guardian, before it went under. My co-founder was a long-time San Francisco journalist and I was able to collaborate with her on sever…

I majored in creative writing, but the MFA career path looked like a pyramid scheme, so I switched to web development. After working in the field for several years, I started runni…

I just pinged you on Twitter, @jdshutt. I know a lawyer who specializes in tax law and is very interested in cryptocurrencies. If you want to get in touch with her, you can reach m…

Would adding up the number of rape threats directed against his critics count as a measurement?

SEEKING WORK - San Francisco Bay Area or Remote Hi, HN! I'm a full-stack web developer, looking to take on interesting freelance projects. I enjoy using Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, SA…

The two most obvious culprits would be: 1) People trying to make the price of bitcoins drop, so that they can buy low and sell high. (This possibility is called out in the article.…

You also have to think about tracking on the readers' side of things. If you read something on Facebook or Google+, you can count on that being tracked and added to that system's p…

The distortion around his contribution to RSS is strongest in mainstream news articles written by people who don't really understand the history. When you read pieces by people in …

Which again makes me wonder why the tech world has been a week of adulation of Aaron Swartz, whose two greatest accomplishments (if you follow the lede of every story about him) we…

If he was advocate for more open access to government records, why is it surprising that he would be concerned about the Aaron Swartz case? I agree that this letter could be seen a…

The Internet Archive, probably. They have a long-term view toward preserving Internet content, and the resources to support permanent memorials would be negligible for them. It wou…

But in the case of Darrell Issa, we have a Congressman who, A) Worked with Aaron Swartz to fight SOPA, B) Sits on the House Judiciary Committee, and C) Has a history of hauling the…

If you want a legislative response, now is the time to write to your representatives. The EFF has an easy tool to send the appropriate people a message: https://action.eff.org/o/90…

Here's what I wrote: Dear Representative Polis, Two days ago, as I'm sure you are aware, brilliant programmer, writer, and activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide. At the time of h…

I just sent an e-mail to Jared Polis, the Representative for Colorado's 2nd District, who sits on the House Judiciary Committee. Rep. Polis a former tech entrepreneur and co-founde…