Archive for February 27th, 2011

Technology Now and Then, A response

Posted in February 27th, 2011

by Ron Amundson in Operations, Planning, and Vision

The blogs of Chris Gammell and Silicon Farmer were going back and forth on the issues of starting a small tech company back in the 1950′s as compared to now. Having been down the path with success and crash and burns a few times, plus an era as a chief engineer of a small contract [...]

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Fake Grassroot Campaigns to Influence Public Policy

Posted in February 27th, 2011

by Ron Amundson in Webthoughts

The Guardian had an interesting article entitled “The need to protect the internet from ‘astroturfing’ grows ever more urgent“. As one who used to co-lead a very large internet forum, we used to laugh at some of the lame attempts at astroturfing (they were easy to detect). The big deal is that over time, such [...]

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