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Mobile Privacy: Betrayed by Our Data

Posted on April 2, 2011 | No Comments
Massively interesting project at Zeit Online exploring privacy (or lack thereof) and our cell phones. German politician Malte Spitz took six months worth of his phone data from German telecoms giant Deutsche...
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Visualizing Hong Kong’s Budget Announcement

Posted on February 28, 2011 | No Comments
I’ve spent a bit of time working on some visualization & analysis of the speech given by Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary for last weeks release of 2011-12 Budget. John Tsang...
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NY Times: Haiti Interactive

Posted on January 13, 2011 | No Comments
NY Times has a fantastic interactive feature on Haiti for the 1-year anniversary of the earthquake that wrecked Port-au-Prince and its surroundings this time last year. The NYT team stitched together...
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NY Times: Vast Hacking by a China Fearful of the Web

Posted on December 29, 2010 | No Comments
” As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing one reason top Chinese...
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“Great Firewall” Architect Driven Offline

Posted on December 23, 2010 | No Comments
If anyone had any doubt about how Chinese Internet users feel about their web censorship… Thursday, December 23, 2010 The architect of the vast internet censorship system known as the...
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WhoRunsHK

Posted on December 18, 2010 | No Comments
The South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s major English-language daily, recently launched a pretty interesting micro-site “Who Runs HK.” It’s an interactive tool for visualizing connections between people and organizations...
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HRP-4C Goes Idoru…

Posted on October 21, 2010 | No Comments
Someone needs to get a quote from William Gibson on this. (AIST demos HRP-4C‘s dance moves at the Digital Content Expo).
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Word Cloud of Hong Kong’s 2011 Policy Update

Posted on October 15, 2010 | No Comments
I created a word cloud from the text of the 2010-2011 Policy Address by Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, from October 13, 2010. The Policy Address was titled “Sharing...
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Stuxnet “Cyber-weapon” Targets Iranian Nuclean Plant

Posted on September 27, 2010 | No Comments
Image Credit: Symantec Computers in Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor are among the 30,000 Iranian computers infected by the sophisticated “Stuxnet” worm, according to the IRNA news agency. Iranian officials have...
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NY Times Article Prompts Policy Change at Microsoft

Posted on September 14, 2010 | No Comments
Microsoft has announced significant policy changes following the publication of astory in the New York Times linking Microsoft to the shuttering of advocacy groups & opposition newspapers in Russia.
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