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Keeping Internet Service Providers Transparent and Honest

by David Sasaki | Mar 25, 2011 | English

In his review of Tim Wu’s The Master Switch, Evgeny Morozov writes: Net neutrality is a simple idea with powerful implications. A neutral net would, for example, prevent cable providers from slowing down their customers’ connections or, worse, banning them from...

A Delicious Proposal For An Annotated Web

by David Sasaki | Jan 20, 2011 | English

How a takeover of Delicious by Twitter could prepare the web for the 21st century. What can I say, I’m tired of big-ass internet corporations taking over my favorite internet platforms and hanging them on the clothesline only to let them die. I am equally...

[Friends in Movies] Bhutan, TV, and the Internet

by David Sasaki | Aug 8, 2010 | English

People have suddenly realized that there are so many things that they desire that they were not even aware of before. And the truth is that most of these television channels are commercially driven, and so the Bhutanese people are driven to consumerism. That’s...

Curation Frustration

by David Sasaki | Apr 2, 2010 | English

Over at Idea Lab I just published my latest about everyone’s new favorite job title: curator. All my peeps these days are opening accounts on Tumblr and Posterous. It’s where they curate the web. Then there are links on Twitter, Delicious, and presumably...

[Review] The Big Switch: Rewiring The World, From Edison to Google

by David Sasaki | Jul 13, 2009 | English

When we think about electricity the first name to come to mind is famed American inventor Thomas Edison, who filed the first of his more than 1,000 patents at the age of 21. In 1879, at the age of 32, Edison invented what today we call the light bulb. It was a...

Cloud Intelligence

by David Sasaki | Jun 12, 2009 | English

Seven Billion Brains on Planet Earth Every morning we – all seven billion of us – wake up with a certain amount of cognitive energy, our mental fuel tank for the day to come. We use up this cognitive energy every time our brain must process information and...

[Review] Here Comes Everybody

by David Sasaki | Oct 4, 2008 | Book Review, English

Thinking back on it, I’m not sure I really learned anything new – not in terms of ideas nor anecdotes – from Here Comes Everybody. And yet I’ll probably end up buying copies for both sets of my grandparents and anyone else I care about who...

[Challenge] Hackers for Cuba

by David Sasaki | Jul 10, 2008 | English

Raul Castro has made some social reforms since taking over as Cuba’s president. Most notably, over 7,400 mobile phone contracts were signed in just 10 days since restrictions were eased by the regime in April. (“The number of new mobile phone contracts is...