Twitter’s censorship is a gray box of shame, but not for Twitter
Twitter’s announcement this week that it was going to enable country-specific censorship of posts is arousing fury around the Internet. Commentators, activists, protesters and netizens have said it’s...
View ArticleWhat real Internet censorship looks like
Lately Internet users in the U.S. have been worried about censorship, copyright legalities and data privacy. Between Twitter’s new censorship policy, the global protests over SOPA/PIPA and ACTA and the...
View ArticleStartups are big in Boulder, but where are the tech billionaires?
“I’m not interested in working on this unless it’s going to be a multi-billion dollar idea. If I thought this would be a hundred million dollar company — what’s the point?” – Anonymous entreprerneur...
View ArticleFred Wilson on Bitcoin, Airbnb and immigration
This week Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures sat down with me for a video interview (part of Reuters’ Tech Tonic: Interface series) to talk about a wide variety of topics: Bitcoin, wireless spectrum...
View ArticleVideo Transcript: Fred Wilson on Tech Tonic Interface
Below is an unedited transcript of the video interview I conducted with Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures: PAUL SMALERA, Technology Editor Reuters.com: Today I had a great chat with Fred Wilson of...
View ArticleVideo Transcript: Cory Booker on Tech Tonic Interface
Below is an unedited transcript of the video interview I conducted with Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ, in April. Paul Smalera: Earlier today I had a great conversation with Cory Booker, the Mayor...
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