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The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2012 | Fast Company

May 15, 2012

As Silicon Valley hones its political agenda, Marvin Ammori has become the go-to First Amendment guy--as evidenced in January, when he helped destroy PIPA and SOPA. His method: "You're only going to win if you have better ideas, better persuasion, and better ability to organize people."

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Coons: Cybersecurity, IP Enforcement Don't Need To Undermine Web Freedom | National Journal

May 10, 2012

Rebecca MacKinnon of the New America Foundation argued that the conflict between freedom and security is an age-old problem that won't be solved through new technology. “There always a tension between the need for security and the need for freedom,” ...

Trophy Wives No More | Boston Globe

May 10, 2012

“That’s just not an option,” according to Liza Mundy, the author of a biography of Michelle Obama as well as a more recent book called “The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love, and Family.” “Women don’t expect to marry up and can’t marry up. Now that we have more college education than men, marrying up is laughable, and even women marrying laterally is becoming more difficult.”

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Netizen Report: Raise Your Voice Edition | Global Voices Online

May 9, 2012

In this dramatic episode, Twitter also played an important role: New America Foundation Senior Fellow Emily Parker, writing in the New Republic, pointed out that the activists used Twitter to reveal that Chen's departure from the Embassy was not as ...

Welcoming Our Computer Overlords To High School | Mother Jones

May 9, 2012

Dana Goldstein writes today that very shortly computers are going to lose their ability to efficiently score student writing test samples. Why? Because new tests are going to be more fact based. Instead of asking students to ruminate on "the benefits ...

Growing Trend, Moms Bringing Home The Bacon | KPLR 11

May 8, 2012

If we keep going at the same rate, by 2030 a majority of working wives, will out earn their husbands.” Liza Mundy is the author of “The Richer Sex”. Liza: “Long term structural changes in the economy are favoring women.” iphone.

Trends Show Women Out-Earning Husbands | WTVR

May 8, 2012

“Women are on track to become majority bread winners in families where women work and most women do work,” said Liza Mundy, author of “The Richer Sex.” “If we keep going at the same rate, by 2030 a majority of working wives, will out earn their ...

Doco Trailer: The Lost Jobs Interview | The Interpreter

May 8, 2012

... place — which suggests Jobs had little patience for politics or perhaps even society. There's just the device and the user. Much more on Jobs' aesthetics and politics here in Evgeny Morozov's brilliant review of Walter Isaacson's recent Jobs biography.

Everything You Know About Anonymous Is Wrong | aljazeera.Com

May 8, 2012

Internet critic Evgeny Morozov puts this position in no uncertain terms: "Hacktivists keep supplying the industry with strong examples as to why more public money should be spent beefing up Internet security and surveillance while eliminating online ...

The Wright Show | Bloggingheads.tv

May 6, 2012

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero) and Liza Mundy (The Washington Post, The Richer Sex)

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