IntelFusion: FLASH Traffic
Nice. Jeff Carr’s a “weekly brief of the global cyber threatscape.” Great to see him and Project Grey Goose gain traction on cyberwarfare – including writing the book on the topic!
On Banning the Intellectually Dishonest
Regarding banning talk show hosts who are consistently intellectually dishonest.
The censoring stuff is the wrong way to go about it, the problem is these guys have an amplifier that shoots messages at 100x the volume of normal individuals – who have as much of a claim to legitimacy as the pundits do.
The point is not to bar people from participating, it is to create a free market of ideas by encouraging widespread participation. Because it is not a free market of ideas right now. The barriers to entry for participating in television and radio media are very high. That‘s the side of the problem that needs fixing.
Those mediums will die over time anyway, online video is a free market, as are podcasts. Might as well accelerate it if we’re going to talk about serious things in the mean time.
Twitter Doesn’t Get Design
To quote myself:
The right play is for Twitter to save the dollars its wasting on the presentation layer and just shut it down. Instead, it should just provide its firehose data flow (ideally also driven by distributed tweet inputs) for processors and front end developers.
Latest examples in the upcoming ReTweet functionality (even though third party developers have already added this functionality):
- It takes two clicks to ReTweet something. It should be like the Facebook ‘like’ button.
- API doesn’t result a count of ReTweets for any given tweet.
Rest assured though, because it does however, put out a <profile_sidebar_border_color> element.