Protecting Yourself from the Internet. It’s time to face it: the internet is watching you. Have you ever noticed that if you search for a product online or if your e-mail inbox has a purchase confirmation that the advertising on certain pages reflects your preferences? For example, don’t be surprised to see advertising for Cabela’s […]
Is Warren Buffett Telling the Truth? I have been trying to figure out what is so disturbing about the exit of David Sokol, Warren Buffett’s former heir-apparent, who submitted a letter of resignation last week that gave vague reasons about wanting to create “enduring equity value” outside of Berkshire. A collection of respected law professors […]
More publicity for Reputation.com in the New York Times Sunday Styles section, featuring lots of people worried about unflattering information about themselves on the web. How to get rid of it? It turns out you often can’t. Once something is online, the best a lot of services can do is to push an unflattering item […]
The most dangerous thing about all the tracking that’s done on us over the internet is not how much computers get to know about us, but how wrong they can be. That presents a bunch of worries over those transactions (such as credit checks) that rely on the automated crunching of mounds of data. But […]
“Google has become a jungle” says The Wall Street Journal. After coming under widespread attack regarding the relevancy of its search results, it’s now common knowledge that Google searches often bring up not what are necessarily the best sources for a particular search but sites ranked highly for commercial reasons. The truth is that Google generates […]
What is the right level of privacy we are entitled to expect on the web? The answer is expanding and contracting by the day, but not only because legislators in Europe are attacking cookies and newspaper stories, or that people are figuring out that “free” Facebook comes with a cost and are starting to pay […]
As clever as Watson the computer was on Jeopardy!, computers will never be able to replace something professionals bring to their practices: the ability to think. This was hit home to me in John Searle’s brilliant reprise in the Wall Street Journal of a paper from 30 years ago, “Watson Doesn’t Know It Won on […]
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