Author: DXO
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International Communications Data Mining by the NSA: Sounds Good to Me
Today’s New York Times has a long story about how the NSA is monitoring all international electronic communication. They also have a news story that shows what the agency actually does: The agency has traced and analyzed the traffic flow – looking at who is calling whom, where calls originate and end, and other patterns…
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Internet Art: Post Secret
The third-most popular weblog on Technorati right now is Post Secret, "an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard". Beautiful hand-made postcards that are in turn heatbreaking, poignant, and crack-up finny. There’s a book, too. The curator, Frank Warren, is all about giving money to…
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I recommend Basecamp for project management and collaboration
The people over at 37 Signals , the makers of Basecamp, have started an affiliate program. I recommend them. They certainly don’t need any more buzz than they already have, but here’s my take: Not fussy. Nothing is that big of a deal on Basecamp. Everything is just sort of another thing to do. Lots…
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No More John F. Burns Archive
So I’ve decided to stop updating the John F. Burns Archive. There are 180 posts in there– many of them are the complete text of his articles, mostly from the beginning of this second Gulf War we find ourselves in. I then decided to go to an “excerpts plus permalinks to free version on nyt.com”…
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About This Site
Derivative Works is a weblog about content on the internet. Content? What do you mean? Published things. Everything on weblogs, appropriated from conversations. The stuff we post on Ebay. Everything on craigslist. The stuff that starts offline and wends its way online. Everything. Isn’t that a little broad? Yes, and that’s the point. I think…